Learning Spanish
Aprendiendo español
Started May 2017 I wanted a place holder for the links for easy access. I am adding additional links / finding which are most useful for myself / adding descriptions about links.
Updated: November 29, 2018
Resources
Several resource in following link:
Open Culture list of free Spanish lessons
Memrise – Memrise is a Language learning Platform, includes Spanish. Has website and app version. Memrise basic app is highly rated, free, no ads. Extra features can be unlocked with a Memrise Pro subscription.
Duolingo – English speaker learn Spanish
https://www.memrise.com/course/342610/duolingo-spanish-vocabulary-in-progress/ Duolingo vocabulary supplement by zstoltz
SpanishDict – English / Spanish dictionary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/
https://www.lingq.com/accounts/new/?language=es
https://www.thespanishblog.com/2015/11/language-learning-app-hellotalk/
Langfocus – discusses how to learn in many videos
SpanishHackers – Anthony and Jess blog -Tips, reviews of learning resources, some lessons
https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/
Quizlet – Flashcards / simple games – for learning vocabulary
Anki – Flashcards for learning
Lang-8 (As per blog message. They have suspended new accounts added in March 2017) Native speakers, including Spanish / English. Community to find a language partner. Help someone learn English, as they help you learn Spanish.
HiNative – Made by same people as Lang-8. Global Q&A platform for language learners. Ask and answer questions about language and culture with native speakers around the world.
HelloTalk App for phones: global language and culture exchange community, connects you with native speakers of other languages (free)
Fluencia.com – Purchase required for courses monthly fees
Study Spanish – Lots of free information, but also CDs and courses for purchase.
Polyglot
Wouter Corduwener Dutch (30 languages)
Luca Lampariello (Italian – knows 13 languages)
Linguatraveller Patrick and I live in Lebanon (12 languages)
South African Lindie Botes (10 languages)
Egor Pak Russian (12 languages)
Lina Vasquez Busy Linguist (7 languages)
Hugues Baudrillat French (24 languages)
Alaric Polyglot Romanian (11 languages)
The Urban Eve Brazilian (13 languages)
Vladimir Skultety (19 languages)
Don Christian Ramsey (20 languages)
LindsayDoesLanguages Lindsay Williams
Youtube channels
Spanish language news
Story courses
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/ – Mi Vida Loca
http://learner.org/series/destinos/ – Destinos is a good story to follow to learn Spanish.
http://www.celebratelanguages.com/esextra.html – @Extra
A tv series made in Spain to learn Spanish @Extra – Various people have the series on Youtube (The show is @Extra)
Learn Spanish lessons / teachers
SPANISH A LEVEL (858)
Maria Español (17,757)
Blabbinit English (Spanish speakers learning English) (141,207)
Various channels in a playlist (just links to a video that leads to the channels)
Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101 (102,268)
Professor Jason (55,440)
senorbelles (5,215)
Gringo Espanol (40,381)
Butterfly Spanish (245,939)
Learn Spanish (91,606)
SpanishSessions (19,344)
Maria Español (17,757)
LightSpeed Spanish (28,159)
The Spanish Blog (15,593)
En Simples Palabras – DIFERENTES TEMAS (principalmente IDIOMAS) (480,537)
SOL School of Language – practice both Spanish and English (teaching English in Spanish) (21,017)
Practiquemos (36,481)
Agustin Iruela – clasificados en cuatro niveles: A1, A2, B1 y B2 (21,184)
Sergi Martin Spanish in Barcelona (25,352)
Español Automático – Karo teaches (lady) (2,082)
Mextalki DE – conversations in Spanish (983)
Practiquemos by Catalina Moreno E.
Youtube channels for listening practice
These channels are a mish mash of Spanish language channels to help with listening skills in Spanish with various accents of real people in various countries.
Youtube Play list of various Spanish accents and some slang / vocabulary differences.
Panama
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Dominican Republic
Nuria Piera – periodista news (68,000) 10/2018
Nicaragua
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Mexico
LuisitoComunica – Mexico guy / some travel / amusing – doesn’t speak too fast (5,556,119)
superholly – bilingual jack of all trades – Every video is done in English and in Spanish (396,357)
YosStoP – Young lady Mexican / Comedic sketches. Divertido – Diferente – Atrevido – Irreverente (4,613,032)
JuStYosS – same woman as YosStoP channel (3,156,443) Que pasión soy Yoss, digo las cosas como son no y tengo pelos en la lengua. Este es un bonito canal de críticas a la sociedad desde mi punto de vista.
Comentario editorial de Alex Backman – Concienciaradio (pro-Trumper) (923,000) 10/2018
Sin Censura Media – independent political news Mexican (360,000) 10/2018
Mexicans living in another country
Couples or individuals living in another country providing some travel and cultural observations of interest.
ikbenivonne “Una Mexicana en Holanda’ (710,120) – Holland
Mari en Londres (5,862) – London, England
Mexicana en Reino Unido (1,580) – England
Mexicana en Israel (46,213) – Israel
una MEXICANA viviendo en IRLANDA (33,761) – Ireland
Pame Koselig Mexicana en Noruega (14,886) – Norway
Aysylu, soy tartara y vivo en Kazan (22,045) – Russia
MAYRA SANCHEZ Mexicana en Japón (122,675) – Japan
mexicana viviendo en japon (420,058) – Japan
Yuri Monroy – Mexican married to a German (44,926) – Germany
Soy Mariana, una mexicana en Alemania (21,909) – Germany
Yo soy Mirella una Mexicana en Paris (44,035) – Paris, France
Martha- Mexicana en Hungría (2,914) – Hungary
Mexicana en Bélgica (11,296) – Belgium
Mexicana en Austria (24,312) – Austria
Mexicana en Italia (5,501) – Italy
Miku & Mane – young married couple (Mexico) (444,313) – Mexico
soy mexicana en Londres y me llamo Annalie (6,635) – London, England
Yo soy KILO, soy mexicana y vivo en Noruega (8,038) – Norway
Dear Montse -Una Mexicana en Bélgica (3,373) – Belgium (related channels listed)
Ricardo Marquina Montañana Este canal está dedicado a Rusia – Russia
Soy una Mexicana viviendo en Turquía desde el 2011 (26,899) – Turkey
Somos dos mexicanos que vivimos en Paris, Francia. Ana y Bern (2,384) – Paris, France
mi Nombre es Paty Picot, soy una Mexicana?? viviendo en PARIS,Francia (7,242) – Paris, France (related channels listed)
Pamela & Steven Mexicana en China (13,538) – China
Mi nombre es Isabel y vivo en Texas – United States
Mexicana en el mundo (20,993) – Mexico
Ande Asiul – Edna. in Spain since 2010 – Spain
Mi vida en España karlaasinadamas – Spain
Una Mexicana en EspaÑa (1,022) – Spain
Te Quiero Corea (240,944)- Korea
Jose&Shei – Jose ( España ) Sheila ( México ) (9,988) – Mexico
El Salvador
Family El Salvador 4k (8,600)
Fernanfloo-young man – jokster (21,500,000) – is this a Spanish Pewdiepie?
Amaya Zelaya young man (21,000 10/2018)
Guatemala
Gloria Alvarez periodista (8,420)
Argentina
Laszlo Renteria (Argentinian with German girlfriend) (705) – Germany
Me Llamo Nathan Soy estadounidense with Argentinian family (bilingual) (12,103) – American in Argentina (LDS Mission)
Ultra Argentina (male voice over) (9,200) 10/2018 Ofrezco informes, explicaciones y periodismo real sobre política internacional, nacional y meta-política. Me interesa también las batallas culturales que se llevan a cabo actualmente.
Landing Dos – Nahuel, Argentina & Katri, Finland (several similar channels listed)
Costa Rica
desde Costa Rica por René Montiel (7,202) – Costa Rica
Peru
Ana Cristina Harris – Peruvian married to American (21,106) – United States
Un espacio para Ana – Este es un espacio para compartir nuestra pasión por lo libros, mangas, series de televisión y películas. (1,957) – Peru
Gabriela El alma de los libros (3,823) – Peru
Chile
Inna Moll – Chilean model in United States (vlogger) (252,052) – United States
Hola Soy German (speaks very fast South American joker) (31,682,375)
Hola Chile La Red (192,486) – tv show in Chile
MIN MANSE – half Chilean / half Korean – living in Korea
Puerto Rico
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Paraguay
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Spain
Telemadrid Toda la información de Madrid
TVAgro conocimiento del mundo Agricola
Un programa con recetas fáciles Cocinaalnatural
AumentandoMiAutoestima.com (Spain accent – positive motivation videos) (327,423)
Pero eso es otra Historia – history in Spanish (Castillian accent)
elrubiusOMG – young man – joker (24,500,000) – plays video games, misc
TheWillyrex – young man – video gamer (11,850,000)
En Busca de La Verdad y Misterio – man – Conspiracy – antiglobalist – speaks slowly & distinctly (sounds Spanish) (6oK)
Spain Revealed – James Blick New Zealand guy married to Spanish lady (Yolly).
spainrevealed.com/how-to-learn-spanish/
MEGrisolano – American in Spain (young woman)
Bolivia
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Ecuador
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Uruguay
G I O V I -makeup (10,378)
GERONIMO HEGUABURU – elementary school age boys
TiranosTembladTV (84,117)
Federico Vigevani – does Photoshop (young man)
Anto Puñales – high school or middle school boy (603,468)
dosogasPlus (693,808) – Federico Vigevani, Mathías Sellanes y Juan Pablo Barbot
Venezuela
Gladys Seara – living in Venezuela (18,419)
Columbia
Julián González – book club member
El Cuaderno de Chris -book club (1,591)
BookWulf (11,920)
Lector Otaku – book club (4,149)
Gringos – USA
Ford Quartermain (30s guy in Mexico)
Miscellaneous – Not sure country accent
https://www.youtube.com/user/spanishpod101/videos
Tata – does makeup videos (4,500)
https://www.youtube.com/user/enriquealex87/videos
Nekojitablog – man married to Japanese woman (1,200,000) – Japan
Story of Heidi (cartoon) (83,500)
FluentSpanglish (1,771) – kids blog with English and Spanish
alanxelmundo – travel vlog (894,000)
HispanTV – independent talking politics, etc. news. HispanTV es un medio alternativo en lengua española, que se hace eco de las realidades del mundo con gran diversidad de noticias, reportajes, documentales, programas, series y películas.
enchufetv – comedic skits (14,000,000)
Candres Peredo – about digital trends, social media (4,120) – speaks clearly and not too fast (United States)
Spanish Balac (17,298) – lives in Thailand
Mary Pulido Vlogs (13,605) – lives in Russia
WatchMojo Español (889,897) – top 10 lists, pop culture
Flama tv (753,679)
Un canal Dedicado al desarrollo de tecnologías Web HTML5, CSS3 , Java Script y Node.js – teaching computer web development
Mia Astral young woman Law of Attraction etc.
Lot Tres Tristes Tigres (young men group singing, misc) (1,003,489)
El Robot de Platon with Aldo Bartra – science, exploring topics in Spanish (664,018)
El Robot de Colón (181,336) – about animals
Platzi (199,211) – sort of daily trending coverage (somewhat tech oriented)
Rita Y su Cerdita – young lady with her big “mini” pig
academiaplay – presenta su innovador proyecto educativo (283,643) http://academiaplay.es/ – Teach history lessons
Play list of misc Spanish videos (36,481) – Several videos of “What is in your purse” pointing to channels speaking Spanish, etc.
wlNvrIJTP2k How I became fluent in Spanish – Part 1/5
Reddit.com /r/learnspanish/ – Learn Spanish
http://www.asicomosuena.mx/
Radio Nacional de España
tOn7ZPKAuS Audiolibro – Louise Hay – Gratitud – Español Latino
Perro y Gato – children’s show
List from Reddit /r/learnspanish of Spanish Youtubers
Pero Like (several teaching Spanish)
About horses
El Caballo, Pura Raza Español (P.R.E)
toros en el campo andaluz precioso reportaje
Movies and tv shows
Note: Best to learn are shows with English and Spanish subtitles, English and Spanish audio with the Spanish audio matching the subtitles
https://www.netflix.com
Cable Girls – Las chicas del cable (Spain) – Netflix: Set in the 1920s, this is the story of four women from different backgrounds newly hired as operators for a phone company. Originally in Spanish with Castilian accent. Good story with character development and some historical social commentary. The Spanish audio matches the Spanish sub-titles! Has English audio and English sub-titles, though not an exact match. The Spanish said is close to what said in English for translation, but not word for word. To learn the story can watch in English or put on English sub-titles, then re-watch using Spanish audio with Spanish sub-titles. The Spanish matches exactly (nearly always). Can read along and listen. Can write down what is said for practice. Try listening and transcribing, then re-play with sub-titles to check. Very useful! Best show that have found. Has some music in English that plays at points, but there is not a lot of long dead silence or dramatic pauses that find in many “Spanish soap operas – novelas”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSBa8u_oEQM
Grand Hotel / Gran hotel (Spain)- Netflix: 1905. Julio, a young man, arrives at the Grand Hotel, an idyllic place in the middle of the countryside, to investigate the disappearance of his sister.
Metastisis – Netflix: If you liked English language “Breaking Bad”, then this is a good choice. The story has been re-made in Columbia with same script translated directly into Spanish.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix: Originally in English. This is a bit of a dark comedy, but has me laughing. The Spanish spoken does not match the Spanish sub-titles (and what said in Spanish – as much as I can tell – is not a perfect match to the English sub-titles either). Would use just as listening practice.
Originally page created early May 2017