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| 46.1M learners (updated since July 24th, 2024) | |
| Courses teaching Spanish |      
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| Status | Available ✓ |
| Amount | 10 |
| Skills in each Checkpoint | • 1st: 9 • 2nd: 38 • 3rd: 70 • 4th: 99 • 5th: 129 • 6th: 158 • 7th: 186 • 8th: 215 • 9th: 243 • 10th: 268 |
| Amount | 268 |
| Skills | See Skills |
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Spanish is a Romance language with over 400 million native speakers.[1] The Spanish for English course was one of the initial courses released in Duolingo, along with French and German. It's an official language in twenty countries across Latin America, as well as its native country of Spain in Europe.
Spanish is an Ibero-Romance language that developed in the "Castile" region of Spain and this variety of Spanish is known as "Castilian" Spanish. It spread across the Atlantic through Christopher Columbus conquering the Americas, bringing in Spanish through other conquistadors (conquers) with him and this caused Spanish to spread from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego. [1][2]
The Spanish for English course contains 268 skills, and there are Duolingo Stories for it.
Keyboard layouts and input methods[]
Main article: Guide to keyboard layouts and input methods
- United States-International layout
- United Kingdom Extended layout
- Mac OS X default layout
- Spain/International layout
- Hispanic American layout
Grammar tips[]
Trivia[]
- In the USA, Spanish is one of the most popular languages with over 60,000,000 people (47 million are native and 13 million are bilingual speakers).
- There are more Spanish speakers in USA than Spain. By 2060, the United States will be the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world.
- Other key facts about the Spanish Language
- A myth exists that Castilian Spanish having a "lisp" originates to King Ferdinand having a lisp and having it spread across the country.
External resources[]
General/multiple resources[]
- How to Learn Spanish - A blog and web reference for learning Spanish online for free.
- News in Slow Spanish - News, grammar, cultural notes (not free).
- 123 Teach Me - Free Spanish lessons online, includes a sentence maker (to see a word in context) and a conjugator.
- SpanishDict.com - Videos, vocabulary practice, and an extensive grammar section.
- Flashcards - Electronic flashcards based on spaced repetition methodology for learning new vocabulary.
Dictionaries[]
- RAE - Spanish-Spanish dictionary online.
- DRAE - RAE Spanish dictionary app for Android.
- SpanishDict - Spanish dictionary with example sentences and conjugations.
Courses[]
- Spanish courses on Memrise
- Butterfly Spanish by Ana Learn Spanish for free with Spanish lessons that cover grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, tips & tricks, comprehension, and cultural aspects.
- Spanish Course on Yabla.com Learn Spanish by watching videos in an online video player designed for language learners.
- Spanish Classes for Kids in Australia - Interactive online Spanish Classes for Kids.
- Fluencia - Learn Spanish online. First lessons are free, next ones are paid.
- Language Now - Professor Jason. Free video lessons of Spanish and Portuguese.
- LightSpeedSpanish - Por and Para Spanish Lesson (Audio-Video). Professor Fred Jehle's Second-Year Spanish Composition Online.
- Spanish Hour - 50-day course
- Spanish Connect - Free videos for learning Spanish through storytelling.
- MOOC prepare for Spanish AP - Advanced free language course by St. Margaret’s Episcopal School hosted on edX. There rating 3.5 from 5.
- Notes in Spanish - podcasts about every day conversations.
- Lingoci Spanish tutoring 1-on-1 Spanish tutoring online (via Skype). Cost is $17 to $21 per hour depending on number of lesson credits bought.
- LanguaTalk Spanish - Spanish courses tailored to your needs by native tutors from Spain & Latin America. Tutors set their own rates so there are cheaper options compared to Lingoci.
Grammar references[]
- Study Spanish - Spanish grammar and resources.
- Languag3Online - Comprehensive Guide to Spanish Conjugation
Tools[]
- Cervantes - test de clasificación - See if you are Spanish Certified with this test.
- Examtime - learn Spanish using Flashcards, Mind Maps and other online tools
- ReadLang.com Click to translate words and sentences while you read web pages and documents, automatically creates flashcards.
- Flowlingo - Learn Spanish for free by watching TV, movie clips, musics videos and reading books and news.
- Free Spanish Flashcards
- Spanish Verb Conjugation Trainer - improve your knowledge of the most frequent forms of the most important Spanish verbs. Grouped by tense and mood. Limited to 50+ most commonly used verbs.
- schoLINGUA - Conjugation trainer - Practice over 12,000 Spanish verbs.
Content in Spanish[]
- iOS and Android. - Live radio, playlists, in Spanish.
- Señor Wooly is a Spanish learning website with short, comedic songs and bite sized games.
- Spanish podcast for intermediate students - free, has interactive transcripts and vocab lists
- La Agenda - a newsletter in Spanish from Quartz
- Latinísima - a spanish latin music playlist on Spotify. Music from many places in Latin America as well as from Spain. Spotify is a music streaming app and website.
- Cuentos para dormir - Bedtime stories.
- Destinos - A movie designed to learn Spanish. Broken into 52 half-hour videos.
- Fábulas para Niños - Free short fables in Spanish.
- EDYD - Free audiobooks in Spanish.
- Leyendas cortas para Niños - Free short legends for childrens in Spanish.
- Extr@ en Español - "The Sam Stories" a 13 show series designed for the intermediate level Spanish speaker.
- Learn Argentinian Spanish - Podcast spoken in the Argentine style of Spanish.
- Mitele - Has original shows from Spain.
- Peliculas Yonkis - Films streaming dubbed into Spanish.
- Practical Spanish - Some simple to advanced stories for reading and listening with English translation.
- RTVE - Spain's national radio, television, and news website. Streaming radio and podcasts (Radio 5 is all news and talk, kind of like NPR in the United States. Radio 3 has music and cultural programs, including live concerts and interviews). Many of the television shows don't stream to other countries, but some do.
- Series Yonkis - TV shows streaming dubbed into Spanish.
- Sublearning - Movie subtitle flash card quiz in Spanish and many other languages
- Telemundo - American Spanish-language network, TV shows available for free.
- VeinteMundos - free site, Spanish only (source languages English, German, French). MP3s available for all articles, sometimes includes video links with the article and has vocabulary games and some grammar lessons linked.
- Vme TV - American Spanish-language network associated with PBS, with free online content.
- http://www.tuanimado.com - Has TV shows, such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Malcolm in the Middle, dubbed in Spanish.
- Zambombazo - Spanish blog featuring a lot of music, cinema, humor and arts related content all directed to early learners. There is also links to download samples of Latin music and music related exercises, all for free.
References[]
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