Videos
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Linguaphone Spanish Video
This is a 2-cassette course; its 8 episodes cover many everyday situations in the city of Salamanca, and the bilingual presentation of the accompanying coursebook – English on the left, Castilian Spanish on the right-hand pages – make understanding of the video extracts easy.
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Documentos de la vida cotidiana
This is a documentary video in 5 episodes which accompanies the “Gente de la Calle” course. Its real-life reports and interviews are highly motivating because of their relevance to contemporary Spanish life.
Strongly recommended for beginners as self-study or supplementary material.Accelerated Learning Spanish
This is a “total physical response” course which encourages the viewer to touch things and then proceed to move them. As the transcript manual informs you, the video is deliberately fast-paced to prevent you from translating in your head, so expect to have to watch each section several times. It is accompanied by an introductory study guide and games in English, word cards and 12 audio cassettes. Only Latin American Spanish is used throughout the video, but the visual element makes this recommended for learning the words for everyday objects – just don’t try to move things around too much in the Language Commons!
SUENOS World Spanish 1 – New Edition
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Videos for practising listening to Spanish
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All about my Mother
The latest (1999) film by world-famous Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, is less aggressively sexual than his previous works and manages to combine his usual sharp look at contemporary Spanish society with a lot of tenderness. You can find out more about it at http://us.imdb.com/Title?0185125 This is the original Castilian Spanish version with English subtitles.
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Como Agua para Chocolate
This is a 1992 award-winning tale of a Mexican family at the turn of the century. The cover calls it “a delicious love story” but you’ll have to read the back of the box or go to the film’s website at http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103994 to find out what the title REALLY means ! This is the original Latin American Spanish version with English subtitles.
If you want more information about these or any of the 34000 films the best place to look is the Internet Movie Database, part of amazon.com at http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Languages/Spanish/ (type the Spanish or English title in the search box or search alpahetically)
Strongly recommended for leisure or to get used to Spanish accents and intonation and maybe pick up a word or phrase by reading the subtitles.