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Title: Spanish textbook recommendations
Post by: haydn jones on April 01, 2020, 05:53:45 pm

Can anyone recommend a good Spanish text book for me to work through?

Title: Re: Spanish textbook recommendations
Post by: jwi on April 01, 2020, 06:08:53 pm

on this note, does anyone know a good free app for basic spanish. Before I started learning french in a formalised fashion I used duolinogo to memorise basic French vocab and verb conjugations, and it worked ok (I could skip one months of full time classes, saving me around 500 euro in tuition)—alas, Duolingo's Spanish course is in mexican Spanish...

Title: Re: Spanish textbook recommendations
Post by: mrjonathanr on April 01, 2020, 06:54:58 pm

Apps? Don’t know.
I can’t recommend adult learner books as I teach in school. Accepting that bias, can suggest:

1: languagesonline. https://www.languagesonline.org.uk/Hotpotatoes/spanishindex.html
Generic language course, start at top Haydn, work down. Follows a similar path to many school courses. Free, good, strong on sentence building/grammar.

2: vocabulary.
 Memrise adapts as you learn, some people love it. https://www.memrise.com/home/
Quizlet - bit less sophisticated than Memrise but very easy to use, wordlists with learning games. I put all my vocab for Y7, Y8 and Y9 on here. Search ‘JReti’  https://quizlet.com/JReti

3: textbook
Mira 1 is the beginners’ Y7 textbook, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_SOPVrabnPcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
There are different GCSE textbooks, I have taught this for last 5 years, from my OneDrive
 Cambridge IGCSE (https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?cid=B0F4AD1DB527DC96&authKey=%21ACBQ%5FKTlhNQqqJY&resid=B0F4AD1DB527DC96%217257&canary=OrKw3iOeThyDk%2Fxod%2B24aJAY2AfEeS9n674BwB5vrUk%3D4&ithint=%2Epdf&open=true&app=WordPdf)

4: Dictionaries.
I like Wordreference. It’s a community, so you can burrow into the forums to see how native speakers use the words. Occasional mistranslation, but still, excellent. Decent app. https://www.wordreference.com/
 SpanishDict - bit simpler, maybe better for beginners. Excellent. https://www.spanishdict.com/

Title: Re: Spanish textbook recommendations
Post by: mrjonathanr on April 01, 2020, 07:06:23 pm

BBC Bitesize is a good site, lots here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z9mtsbk