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  • @afellowkid
    3•2 years ago

    Reading material

    EcuRed: Enciclopedia Cubana

    Granma

    Listening

    Podcast de Granma

    How to Spanish Podcast

    Grammar/Lessons

    Butterfly Spanish

    Other

    Jabiertzo - This channel is a couple who lives in China, the wife is Chinese and in the communist party of China, the husband is Spanish (I think?) and studied Chinese philosophy (I think??), they usually answer questions and talk about life in China, their videos are in Spanish.

    Linguirosa - This channel talks about a lot of quirks of Spanish grammar, etymology, language history etc.

  • @rjs001
    2•6 months ago

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  • @redtea
    2•2 years ago

    [Let me know if these aren’t the kind of resources you had in mind! I can always move the comment to a different thread on methods / literature if that’s more appropriate.]

    Listening-reading, by aYa/Phi-Staszek

    This is not a resource for learning Spanish per se. It’s an explanation of the listening-reading method for learning any language. It is a contentious method, but it worked for me.

    As for choosing a book to LR, Sally Rooney’s Gente Normal (Normal People) is nicely narrated and a great novel. As is Dónde Estás, Mundo Bello (Beautiful World, Where are You). Rooney is a Marxist, too, and it comes through subtly in her writing.

    Ken Follett’s Las Tinieblas y el Alba (The Evening and the Morning) and Los Pilares de la Tierra (Pilars of the Earth) are good. Both narrated by Jordi Boixaderas, who is great. These novels talk about feudal England, which provides some useful vocabulary for those who want to jump into Marxist texts. And if you get used to Boixaderas’ voice, you may find it easier to then follow up with something by Isabel Allende as he narrates some of her work (Largo Pétalo de la Mar (Long Petal of the Sea – i.e. Chile) for example).

    Another audiobook that was pleasant to LR was Phillip Pullman’s El Libro de la Oscuridad I: La Bella Salvaje (The Book of Dust I: La Belle Sauvage).

    Note (this note will make more sense after reading the above link): aYa recommends 12 hour days over three weeks to jump from knowing only a summary of the grammar to reaching ‘natural listening’ (i.e. enjoying native content without (much) help). ‘Natural listening’ does not mean that you will understand everything, but you should understand enough to follow along, especially Marxist lectures (the content will be familiar, and anything in formal Spanish is easier to understand for native English speakers because formal English still mostly relies on words with Latin roots) (Enrique Dussel is easy enough to follow). I can say the method still works without knowing any grammar, and only LRing for 2+ hours per day, although it will then take a little longer to enjoy native content without help (it still takes 2–250 hours of LRing to get to ‘natural listening’, so divide 250 by LR-hours-per-day for a rough estimate of how long it would take you). That said, I would not recommend jumping in without knowing much / any grammar, as knowing some grammar will help to make the audio more comprehensible.

    EDIT: fixed link EDIT 2: swapped http link for an HTTPS link