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Sep 02, 2013 - 10:35 AM
I agree with you on the supplementary material. Fluenz is easily the best program I have found for Spanish, much better than its competitors, but the weak link is the supplementary material. The podcasts and the audio discs are just not very good. I'm on disc 4, and I've looked for additional material to supplement the Fluenz program, and have enjoyed the podcasts of Coffee Break Spanish and News in Slow Spanish. CBS is very entertaining, after you get used to the Scottish accents but they focus on the Spanish of Spain, not Latin America, so get used to the "th" sound in place of "s" at times. News in Slow Spanish has a Latin American version now, but I've just now gotten to the point where I can understand much of it. Both of them are free podcasts, and you can pay for transcripts and additional material with each.
Does anyone have other good podcasts to recommend?
Does anyone have other good podcasts to recommend?
Sep 03, 2013 - 09:01 AM
Thanks! I'll try your suggestions. I'm only on lesson 20, disk 1, so I probably don't know enough Spanish yet, but it should help my brain start processing real spoken Spanish.