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| Title | Keeping Up Your Spanish Listening Skills |
| Body | Editor's note: Recently several posts to the FLTEACH listserv mentioned ways in which Spanish teachers can maintain their listening skills. Following are several suggestions. ----- Periodically teachers ask how we can keep our ears in practice, particularly if we teach mostly levels 1 and 2, and never have enough contact with our target language. On the one hand , I am blessed: I live in Texas where we have access to multiple television and radio outlets, I attend church in Spanish, and I teach native speakers. On the other hand, I always need more practice. I have recently discovered that audible.com has a few things in Spanish. I just started 'Diario de Clara Eugenia," by Jose Manuel Villalpando, which seems well written and well recorded, and next I'm going to listen/read "Ola Latina" by Jorge Ramos. You download them to your iPod, MP3 or burn a CD, then you listen while you're at the gym or out walking. CRS. Listening practice for teachers: Spanish. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (19 Feb. 2005). ----- I have immensely enjoyed listening to the first Harry Potter book in Spanish. I know the stories so well that I always understand what is being said, the reader speaks clearly and not too rapidly. However, if you've ever heard the books in English, prepare to be disappointed. The reader is NOT of the same quality. That said, he does read with a lot of expression, so it could be worse! Smallwood, Danie. Listening practice for teachers: Spanish. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (24 Feb. 2005). |
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