Here are twelve of the bestselling Spanish audiobooks: ‘El campo de batalla de la mente’, ‘Los siete hábitos de la gente altamente efectiva’, ‘El poder de mantenerse enfocado’, ‘Piense y hágase rico’, ‘El símbolo perdido’, ‘El secreto’, and more. Click on them to see more details:

Jetset Spanish is a Latin American Spanish video course that will get you speaking in Spanish from lesson 1. This fun and motivating course covers an vast array of everyday situations. Here you can find the lesson plan and the full course description.

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There are no miracles when it comes to learning a foreign language, but there are ways of going through your study material that can greatly speed up the learning process.

Here are three exercises I’ve often done myself as a student of English and other languages, and which I always recommend to my students. These exercises are to be done as a form of review, while you move on with the rest of the course. If you do them frequently, you will virtually see the progress you’re making. They really do work.

1. Reading the Spanish dialogs out loud along with the recordings. Whenever you go through a dialog, don’t stop at getting the gist of it and understanding the translation. Instead, read it many times out loud, along with the native speakers, until you can keep up with them while saying all the words clearly. Come back to your dialogs regularly and repeat this exercise frequently.

2. Do dictations from the dialogs in your Spanish course. Open a dialog you’re familiar with and go to the screen or mp3 point where you can hear it but you can’t see it. Have pen and paper or a word processor handy.

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Play the dialog and pause it after a few words or a sentence. Write down what you’ve heard. Then play a few more words, pause the recording and write down the new words. Write down the whole dialog this way. Then play it through and check if you need to amend anything. Compare what you’ve written down with the dialog transcript. Mark the places where you’ve made mistakes.

Review the Spanish words you’ve had trouble with in the dictation. Check that you know their meaning and that you’re saying them correctly. Keep your dictation and repeat it a week or two later. Compare the two and notice the improvement!

3. Translating the dialogs back into Spanish. This exercise will be hard the first time you try it, and you’re likely to make many mistakes. Don’t worry. It’ll soon get a lot better. This is the ideal way of doing it:

Go to the English translation of your dialog. Without looking at the Spanish version, translate the dialog back into Spanish. If you can’t remember a word or phrase, leave a gap. When you’re done, go back to the Spanish dialog in your course and compare it with your translation. Mark the places where you’ve made mistakes.

Keep your translation. Repeat it a couple of weeks later and you’ll see that many of the gaps and mistakes have disappeared, and you can translate the whole dialog faster!

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To get by in Spanish, and to get the information or things you need, you don’t have to be fluent. Even if you know just a couple of hundred words, there’s a lot you can say, and a lot you can understand.

Here are seven tips on how to put your message across successfully, and how to increase the odds of understanding what’s being said to you:

1. Remember to speak loud enough, so people can hear you. When we speak in a language we’re not confident in, we often say things too quietly. Project your voice and don’t lower it when you’re hesitant about a word or expression.

2. Speak clearly. Don’t mumble or put your hand in front of your mouth. If something doesn’t come out right, say it again.

3. Think ahead. Before you go out shopping, to a restaurant or to rent a car, prepare the sentences you may need. Check the main words and make sure you can say them correctly, and in the right order.

4. Think of the possible answers you might get when you ask a question. Write down the words you’re likely to hear and check any you’re not sure of.

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5. Keep it short and simple. Avoid building long sentences.

6. Make sure your pronunciation is good. You may only know a limited number of words, but if everyone can understand them when you say them, those few words can go a long way.

7. Review the numbers. They come up in almost every situation.

My Spanish courses will help you with all the points stressed in this article. They will quickly develop your listening and speaking skills. They will introduce you to everyday vocabulary, practical grammar, and they will help you master the Spanish pronunciation with fun and engaging drills.

You can study Spanish with me wherever you are and at your own pace. I have created a wide variety of courses to suit all your needs: online, mp3, apps, books, cdroms, ebooks and more. Check out the free lessons.

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The way in which you go through your Spanish course is going to be a main factor in how well and how fast you learn the language.

Here are 8 tips to help you develop your listening and speaking skills successfully, and get a good Spanish accent.

1. When you start a new dialog, always make sure you listen to it BEFORE reading its transcript. It’s harder and often you’ll understand very little at first, but it’s also the most effective way to develop your listening skills well and fast.

2. Always read the Spanish dialogs, vocabulary flashcards and pronunciation examples out loud, as if you where talking to someone. Saying them quietly or in your head will sound better, but it won’t help you develop your speaking skills.

3. Make a note of the words you’re having trouble remembering. At the end of every learning session, go back to them. Review them with the vocabulary flashcard by reading them out loud, along with the recordings. That way you’ll avoid gaps in your knowledge and you’ll be able to learn new words faster.

4. Make a note of any grammar points that aren’t clear to you. Put them aside and then come back to them a couple of weeks later. The odds are you’ll understand them much better the second time around, once you’ve made a bit more progress.

5. Listen to the dialogs and all other recorded material in your course not just once, but many times. Every time you listen to the recordings your listening skills are been given a boost.

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6. If you routinely mispronounce a letter, it’s likely that you’ll find it difficult to understand words with that letter. Go through the Spanish pronunciation lessons in your course as thoroughly and as often as you can. Remember: the better your accent is, the easier you’ll find it to understand Spanish speakers.

7. Study at least six days a week, even if sometimes it can only be for ten minutes. The more regularly you’re in contact with the language, the faster you’ll learn. Studying for several hours every so often isn’t nearly as effective as doing half an hour six days a week. Guaranteed.

8. Review your Spanish lessons regularly, even those you find easy. The more solid your basic knowledge of Spanish is, the faster you’ll be able to learn more difficult words, sentences and grammar points.

Here are 10 free iTunes apps you can use for learning Spanish.

Whether you’re a complete beginner or a fluent speaker of Spanish, there are plenty of free apps you can download to your iPhone, iPod and iPad. Some are substantially better than others. The ones here are definitely worth having:

1. Free Spanish Tutor

2. Radio Nacional de España

3. World Nomads Spanish Language Guide

4. El Universal newspaper

5. WordReference.com Spanish-English dictionary

6. El País newspaper

7. Cody’s Cuentos

8. Insta Spanish Lessons

9. Learn Spanish with La Casa Rojas

10. LingusTV: Learn Spanish

Over on iTunes you can also get my free Spanish Podcasts for Beginners.

If you are learning Spanish and you are looking for fun ways of mastering the language, these magazines and newspapers will help you. They are all free and online.

There are many more online publications, and in future posts I will give you links to them, but these are some of the top ones. In this list you will find news sites, sports papers, economy magazines, entertainment and fashion magazines, and even online radio stations.

Here are the ten Spanish newspapers and magazines I have chosen for you:

1. El País – Newspaper published in Spain

2. La Nación – Newspaper published in Costa Rica

3. Elle in Spanish – Fashion magazine

4. People en Español – Entertainment magazine

5. Cadena Ser – Online radio station from Spain and online news site

6. El Universal – Mexican newspaper

7. El Economista – Economy magazine published in Mexico

8. As – Sports newspaper published in Spain

9. Cosmopolitan in Spanish – Fashion magazine

10. COPE – Radio station from Spain and online news site

If there is a free Spanish newspaper or magazine site you would like me to include in future posts, please let me know!

At Spanish Bookworld you can find reviews of the best, and the not-so-good, Spanish courses currently on the market.

Before you buy a new course, make sure you read well-informed Spanish course reviews. It will save you time and money!

Electronic books, also known as ebooks, are publications which can be read on a number of devices such as computer desktops, laptops and ebook readers. The last five years have seen the launch of many thousands of electronic books with a wide variety of formats. They range from plain publications, with hardly any features, to beautifully developed interactive multimedia ebooks with sound, images, notepads, feedback and hyperlinked menus.

   

The most basic ebooks are no more than digital versions of printed books. They’re a great invention, but they’re far from the electronic books I’m going to concentrate on in this article. Today I’m going to introduce you to fully interactive multimedia ebooks, in particular those that help you learn foreign languages in a flash.

Foreign language learning has been radically improved by multimedia ebooks. They make studying much more fun, and substantially easier. They have also brought the cost of learning down. So, what is it that makes them the powerful tool they are? Here are their top five features:

1. Multimedia ebooks bring the language to life by including audio and/or video. Whether you’re learning verbs, listening to dialogs or practicing your pronunciation, multimedia ebooks allow you to hear the text said by native speakers by a simple click; and you can listen to it over and over. Good ebooks also give you the translation of all the new words and phrases in each lesson, so you never need to use a dictionary.

2. Multimedia electronic books come with listening and speaking drills and exercises to practice the real language. If you’re learning verbs, for instance, you can practice saying and understanding the new forms; if you’re learning vocabulary, you’ll be able to practice all the new words you’ve come across. A good language ebook will also include a set drills at the end to help you review everything you’ve learned, as a whole.

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3. Interactive electronic books give you the exercise and drill solutions. All you need to do is click a button. Good ebooks also let you save your personal scores, an essential feature for monitoring your learning progress.

4. The best electronic books include menus and links similar to those you find on well-designed websites. They make moving from chapter to chapter flawless, and you can quickly get to any lesson, drill or any other content. There are also plenty of external links to the author’s contact page, free resources, blogs, etc.

5. Good electronic books allow you to type in your notes and save them for future reference.

Briefly, interactive multimedia ebooks are self-contained. They provide everything you need, so you don’t have to use a dictionary, notepad, reference book or audio material.

Finally, language learning ebooks cover every aspect of the language: conversation, vocabulary, grammar, numbers, pronunciation, etc. They help you master understanding, speaking, reading and writing faster and more efficiently than traditional methods.

Here are some snapshots from my Spanish language learning ebooks:

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