Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts

What happened to the 'F' in Spanish words?

Many Latin words starting with 'f' see this leading letter weakened to 'h' in Spanish. The cognates in Italian, French and Portuguese most often keep the leading 'F'.

Geografía y demografía de España

En una serie de videos, veremos muchos datos y particularidades geográficas de España

Español con María

Español con María is 'the tropical way' to learn Spanish, is what María posts in her title paragraph. We leave Spain and head for Colombia, in the north-west of South America.

Some more Spanish channels

Some more Spanish YouTube channels. All of them are teachers from Spain and most of them target intermediate to advanced learners.

¡Hola Spanish!

With ¡Hola Spanish!, I am introducing another Latin American language channel here. The teacher is from Argentina (but is living in Australia). Not quite the typical 'Rio Platense' pronunciation as she is from Cordoba. Argentinian Spanish is also said to sound more melodic, due to a very high percentage of the population from Italian descent. (The kitchen is also more Italian than Spanish.)

Organic Spanish

In two of the videos on the channel SpanisHacks, Juan is interviewing Kasia who runs the channel Organic Spanish. She emphasizes on learning a language using comprehensible input.

SpanisHacks

The channel SpanisHacks is run by a Mexican teacher, hence we discover one of the most common accent in the Americas and the most common heard in the US. 

Español automático

Another YouTube channel aimed at intermediate Spanish speakers aiming to escape from the 'plateau' of intermediate knowledge and proficiency. This is a full immersion approach.

Dreaming Spanish

Dreaming Spanish is a web based Spanish learning site where Spanish is used as the teaching language. This immersion approach is the key feature. It also avoids imposing a teaching language.

Linguriosa

Are you an avid learner of Spanish and have you always been interested in specific features of the language and its evolution? Then Linguriosa is the channel for you. Of course it is Spanish spoken (with a peninsular accent since Helena lives some 100 km north of Madrid.)