Saturday, January 7, 2012


http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/                   **
bbc.co.uk/languages/ is a free-of-charge website which doesn’t require registration and offers Spanish for beginners and intermediates. It lets you “test your Spanish” with a placement test, which I found quite unreliable because it would stop the test on the first mistake I made and automatically assume I’m a beginner. It then recommends activities according to the placement test. What was suggested to me was an intermediate audio magazine, Spanish TV (to which you don’t have access unless you’re in the UK), BBC Mundo (which is an online Spanish newspaper) and Spanish crosswords with a few topics like health, proverbs and cuisine. To intermediates it also offered “sueños”, which are fairly small clips from TV series from 11 different learning units. The grammar section also has a few different units presented through dialogues and readings and then proceeds to some activities (matching words, putting the dialogue in order). I didn’t think the website was well-structured or organized and even though most of the features it offered looked interesting they really weren’t once I tried them. If you’re looking for a tutorial, then this definitely isn’t for you since it basically helps you maintain the level you’re at.

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