FAVORITE SPANISH WEBSITES

I like the organization of this site. It's very simple and straightforward. It offers options for studying beginning, intermediate, and advanced Spanish and gives students the option to study pronunciation, grammar, verbs, and idiomatic expressions. Everything is laid out and easy to find. If I need to brush up on past perfect tenses all I need to to is click on the menu on the left. In addition, the cultural articles are up to date and very interesting. The articles have audio in Spanish and a written version in Spanish and English. They include all parts of Latin America and Spain. Two things the site is missing are a tool for interaction between students and a tool that checks pronunciation accuracy (voice recognition). I would recommend it for beginner and intermediate levels.

Duolingo.com

What I like about Duloling is the motivation/competitive aspect. You earn points as you progress and get “lingots” with which you can purchase bonus lessons. Each lesson is composed of 4 types of exercises: translations from L1 to L2 or vice-versa; listening exercises where you listen to a short phrase and you write what you hear; a matching exercise (photo/vocab); and a speaking exercise where you have to read out loud a

SpanishPod

SpanishPod lets you choose a lesson by topic (i.e.: Where are you?, what is she like?) within five different levels (beginner, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced.) Their lively podcasts are engaging and use real life experiences with real conversations. Another unique feature of SpanishPod is the forums where you can talk to instructors and other students about different topics. The bad thing about SpanishPod is that it is not a free program (after the complimentary class). The price ranges from $30 to $50 a month.

Livemocha

I love this site because you can converse any time you want with other native students from all over the Spanish-speaking world. It is easy to use and the interfaces let the student know exactly where they are and how much further they need to go in the lesson. You can send audios and texts and get feedback from other students.

sentence in the target language. The lessons get progressively harder as you progress. It is also a free app, so you can play/learn anywhere/anytime. What I don't like about Duolingo is that it does not let you "jump" exercices or levels, nor it lets you study a specific topic (for example: subjunctives). In addition, it does not provide any grammatical explanations. The program is set up in a very traditional method, there's not a lot of conversation exercises or meaningful conversations or sentences that you can use in real life.

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