Get your iPod to teach you Spanish
Learning Spanish is not what it used to be: boring and stagnant. Long gone are the days when studying a foreign language meant sitting in front of an unalluring book memorizing verb forms and long words you could hardly remember the next day.
Over the last few years hundreds of Spanish courses on cd, cd-rom and dvd, video games and audiobooks have made language learning much more fun, unbelievably faster and more efficient.
The one gadget, however, that has truly revolutionized Spanish language learning is the iPod, together with the language products that have been developed for it. The choice is awesome: downloadable podcasts, videocasts, audio and visual phrasebooks, bilingual dictionaries, study guides and more.
What I love about the iPod is that you can be doing something else while you learn Spanish: commuting, jogging, going for a walk, bathing, cooking, cleaning, waiting for a plane or the bus, traveling … With a Spanish course you like on your iPod, you can learn a lot in what before was wasted time.
To hear a Spanish language learning podcast, here’s a sample in this previous post.
To see what a language learning videocast looks and sounds like, I put a sample in this other post.
If you’re looking for Spanish learning products for your iPod, here you can find a good selection.
Is there a Spanish learning iPod-compatible product you use that you’d like to tell the world about? Please write a comment below!
Hola! I'm Maria Fernandez, an experienced native Spanish teacher, author of the Spanish courses at Spanish Bookworld & the popular Spanish Podcasts for Beginners on iTunes.
