For your listening pleasure and for your comprehension practice!
On the AP exam and in everyday life, you will hear a variety of accents from various countries in the Spanish-speaking world. This site is from the University of Texas. Here you can practice short listening exercises with or without a transcript. Click here to begin.
This site, Language Media from five colleges, has lots of video clips from around the Spanish-speaking world covering a variety of topics. Click here to begin.
To practice the listening and vocabulary in Audiria begin here. Remember you do not need to register or log in. Just do the listening. If you are counting this as part of your "Diario Auditivo" please remember to complete the exercises!
The United Nations Radio site is Here. You can listen directly on the site, but if you want to download the podcasts, you'll have to register. It's free.
This is a fabulous site, Ejercicios de español para extranjeros has a wide variety of audio and video clips. Enjoy!
The BBC has a wealth of sites with reports in audio and video. Visit here often to practice listening, retrieve articles, or to read about current events. Click here for the BBC Mundo news page.
Also on the BBC Website, you can go to Intermediate broadcast, El Mensual. Here you will be able to keep up with audio reports, videos, and exercises designed for language learners.
Audio books to listen to are available at this site. There are from a variety of authors, varied genres, and easy to open or download for listening practice.
"España de cerca" is a collection of interviews and other resources through which we try to better know what Spaniards are thinking about a variety of topics and what that reveals to us about them and their country. This site is available through the Open Course Ware from MIT and accompanies the vocabulary handout available as a post on this blog. After you have studied the vocabulary, click on a person's picture to hear their responses. Click here to begin.
One of the very best places to go for added practice is Notes in Spanish. Here you can add more practice to what you have heard in class. We have the transcripts, so if you want to have the sheets as you listen, see your teacher or stop by D-143 and ask Dr. Vasconcelos to make you a copy. The podcasts are of Ben (an Englishman) and Marina (a Spaniard) carrying on a conversation about a wide variety of topics. In beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Enjoy.
Download Audiria podcasts by clicking here You can download to your i-pod and practice your listening. This is the site we use in class with the listening exercises, so it is great practice for you at home. This is another great site to use for AP exam preparation.
