Wednesday, October 04, 2006

10 Mistakes to avoid while Learning Spanish

Found a great article on 10 Mistakes to avoid while Learning Spanish. About.com is a wonderful resource for spanish learning in general but this article gives so advice that must not be missed.

Mistakes include making assumptions about similar sounding words for instance embarazada usually means "pregnant", or always following english word order.

The full articles is found at About.com - 10 Mistakes To Avoid While Learning Spanish .



Great Free Spanish Learning Resource from BBC UK

A brilliant resource for any level of spanish learner. Why not try the gauge your level test to work out how good your spanish is?

The site contains many MP3 downloads as well as a free online start course at http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/itinerary.shtml

The main BBC Spanish site can be found at

BBC - Languages - Learn Spanish

-Dave

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Spanish Verb Conjugator

This one will test your spanish. It is a Spanish Spanish Verb Conjugator. So it conjugates verbs given in Spanish for you... but the instructions are all in Spanish. Just a little challenge for you!

Web-Compjugador

Describing someones personality in Spanish

Being able to talk about people is an essential part of social conversation. I found this list of 50 adjectives very useful and will be trying to use some of the words today in conversations.

Adjectives to describe the personality in English and Spanish

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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

free online Spanish-English translation dictionary

Just found a good free online spanish dictionary...

The American Heritage® Spanish Dictionary: Spanish/English, Inglés/Español

This free online Spanish-English translation dictionary is newly revised to include the most current computer, telecommunications, and Internet vocabulary and to include pronunciations in both English and Spanish. Featuring American English and Latin American Spanish, it contains 70,000 entries with more than 120,000 meanings.

Online Spanish-English Dictionary: definitions, translations, and pronunciations - Yahoo! Education

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Spanish word scramble - beginners vocabulary test and learning tool

For beginners - a lovely vocabulary checker. Pictures of six spanish words for you to learn are displayed with the letters of the word jumbled up. You simply have to rearrange the letters to spell the correct word for the picture. Simple and fun!

Spanish Language Exercises - Spanish Word Scramble - The Internet Picture Dictionary

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Need a new spanish word each day?

Just love this website which gives you a new Spanish word each day. The words are nicely defined with examples of using the word and clickable audio to help get the pronunciation correct. Nice to look at the start of each day.

Spanish Words. Palabra del Dia




Welcome to Just Spanish Words

Welcome to Just Spanish Words - A collection of spanish word resources for people learning spanish. If you find something useful I haven't please let me know.

Dave