Archive for category Spanish

FSI Language Courses

I’m excited about this find.   These free language courses were originally written for the United States Foreign Service Institute.  You can buy them on Amazon but be ready to pay a lot more than you wanted to spend.

Here’s a list of the courses available (so far):

Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cambodian (Khmer), Cantonese, Chinese, Chinyanja, Czech, Finnish, French, Fula, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kituba, Korean, Lao, Lingala, Luganda Moré, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Shona, Sinhala, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Vietnamese, Yoruba

FSI Language Courses Free Online

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Destinos: A Soap for Learning Spanish

My formal Spanish training came through an intense summer course, in which we used Destinos as our text. I took the course more than 10 years ago and at least 4 years before I actually needed to use Spanish for anything. Destinos uses the drama to teach vocabulary and gradually transition viewers from English to Spanish. I just discovered that its all online for free.  Perhaps I’ll watch it again sometime.

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish

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Literacy Center Games

I just discovered this alphabetics website.  I’m going to try it out on my kids. I suspect they won’t like it as much as some other sites with more bells and whistles, but I think the site’s activities are probably good at teaching alphabetics.

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