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Advanced French
In my experience as a student of French, the French audio magazine Champs Elysées is the most efficient product I know for learning new vocabulary, developing your listening skills and practising real conversational French. As a language teacher, Iâ...
Advanced Spanish
The best product I’ve seen and used with my advanced students of Spanish is the audio magazine Puerta del Sol. I’ve often used it to teach students who can understand Spanish well, but want to expand their vocabulary and are curious about Spain a...
Amazon - Kindle
This is simply awesome. You can now carry around 100s of books with Amazon’s Kindle, a 10.3 ounces wireless device that allows you to download a read all your favorite books on a reader-friendly screen. To go with it, there are now more than 90,000...
La oruga muy hambrienta – The Very Hungry Caterpillar
This is a magical book in English, and the Spanish translation hasn’t lost any of its beauty. Written by Eric Carle in 1969, La oruga muy hambrienta is a gem for teaching Spanish to children. This all-time classic is great for learning the numbers...
Rosetta Stone Japanese Level 1
Learning Japanese with Rosetta Stone is fun. Unlike other language courses, Rosetta Stone Japanese Level 1 teaches you the language from the beginning, without assuming that you have a previous knowledge of it. That’s why the Rosetta Stone software...
Rosetta Stone French Level 1
Learning French with Rosetta Stone is never dull. This innovative language course on cd-rom introduces you to the French language through image and word associations that allow you to start building your own sentences much sooner and faster than your...
Rosetta Stone Spanish levels 1 – 2 – 3
The Rosetta Stone software language courses on cd-rom are fun. That’s why they are used by more than 10,000 schools. Rosetta Stone Spanish levels 1 – 2 – 3 is a unique and highly successful language learning method that will allow you to speak ...
Rosetta Stone Spanish Level 1
Rosetta Stone Spanish is the bestselling language learning software on the market, and it’s no wonder. With it you can learn Spanish in a natural, relaxed and fun way, just like you learned English as a child. Rosetta Stone Spanish Level 1 is an i...
Le Petit Prince – excerpt - extrait
Here’s a beautiful excerpt from one of my favorite French books, Le Petit Prince, The Little Prince, written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry two years before he died in a plane accident during World War II in 1944. Le Petit Prince is a classic of ...
The Lives of Others – movie reviews
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others is a thriller placed in East Berlin in 1984 which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006. It’s a moving but not sentimental movie, a superb production with a crafted plot and fi...
Volver – movie review and trailer
The Spanish movie Volver, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, features some of Spain’s best actresses: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Blanca Portillo, Lola Dueñas, Yohana Cobo, Neus Sanz and Chus Lampreave. It came out in 2005 and lasts 110 minutes. Syn...
German audio magazine – product review & samples
The German audio magazine Schau ins Land, published by Champs Elysées, is a bimonthly publication for intermediate and advanced students of German who want to expand their vocabulary fast, and improve their listening and speaking comprehension skill...
French audio magazine – product review & sample
The French audio magazine Champs Elysées is a handsome publication aimed at intermediate and advanced students of French, and one of the only products on the market that can really help you reach a very high level.Champs Elysées is a monthly audio ...
Spanish audio magazine – free sample – audio & text
The Spanish audio magazine Puerta del Sol, published by Champs Elysées, is currently one of the best products on the market for intermediate and advanced learners.Puerta del Sol is published bimonthly and comes in the form of a 1-hour long cd, plus ...
Acquerello italiano - Italian audio magazine – sample
The Italian audio magazine Acquerello italiano, published by Champs Elysées, is one of the only products on the market for intermediate and advanced students of Italian, and it’s probably the best one.Acquerello italiano is a bimonthly publication...
People en español – People magazine in Spanish
Another way to enjoy practising your Spanish, and learning lots of new vocabulary, is by reading the magazines you like. People en español is a highly successful publication which is now the Spanish-language magazine with the largest readership in ...
Champs Elysées Spanish audio magazine product review
Finding good study material for intermediate, and especially for advanced students of Spanish, is notoriously difficult. The Champs-Elysées Spanish audio magazine entitled Puerta del Sol is an honorable exception. I’ve often used it with my studen...
Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary - $4.00
A good dictionary can save you a lot of time when you’re learning a foreign language. For a start, it will have most, if not all, the words you’re looking up, which is something that many dictionaries don’t do. That’s why the Merriam-Webster'...
Rosetta Stone Spanish - product reviews
The latest version of Rosetta Stone Spanish, Version 3, is currently the best Spanish learning software on the market. It’s a program based on learning naturally, the way your learned your mother tongue, and according to many customer’s reviews, ...
How to learn katakana
When I found out earlier this year that I was coming to live in Japan for a few months, I soon started learning Japanese. First I bought a book + cd, and then I joined a course at my local language school. The lesson were good, but I wish my teacher ...
Don't buy language courses – download them!
Have you ever wondered why people still pay for language courses when you can get so many for free on the Internet? Are those people wasting their money or is there more (or, rather, less) to free language courses than we would like?Over the past few...
Great deals on Rosetta Stone software
The Rosetta Stone language learning software has rightfully earned itself an enviable reputation as one of the best language learning methods. Its award-winning products are used by NASA, the US State Department, and thousands of schools.To prove its...
Learn Spanish while you sleep
If you want to learn Spanish but don’t have enough time, or you’ve tried other products but haven't got far, you can now learn Spanish with recordings that combine hypnosis, subliminal influence and sleep learning.James Schmelter, the brain behi...
