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If you've studied Spanish but struggle in conversations with native speakers, or still need subtitles when watching films or TV shows in Spanish, Real Spanish is for you! We focus on authentic, colloquial language spoken at native-speaker speed.
We have video-lessons based on Spanish films and TV shows, and a pronunciation module to help improve your listening and communication skills. You You will soon find that your comprehension improves, you feel more confident in conversation, you sound more natural, your vocabulary expands, you have a better grasp of some of the tricky points of Spanish grammar, and you are able to use a variety of Spanish expressions.
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With this subscription you get access to all the materials available so far on Real Spanish, as well as all new material as it is published. We are developing new material right now!
Lesson components:
Each lesson in «Español con cine», «Español con noticias y docuemtnales», and «Español con los Alcántara» includes the following components:
Videos (5)
Note: You don't need to take notes while watching the videos. You can download a complete transcription afterwards.
- Teacher presentation (animated video): the virtual teacher provides information that will help you to understand the clips. This is followed by a quick quiz based on 5 items introduced in the presentation.
- Clip from a movie or TV program, subtitled in English: this version will help you get a general idea of what’s going on. But if you prefer, you can skip this step.
- Clip subtitled in Spanish: this version will help to improve your listening comprehension. The subtitles match exactly what the actors say… even if they make mistakes! (It’s true, Spanish speakers make mistakes too, especially when speaking rapidly). It’s a good idea to watch this version more than once.
- Original version: You will understand this version if you’ve already seen the version with Spanish subtitles a couple of times.
- Conclusion (animated video): The virtual teacher reviews some of the language from the clips and wraps up the lesson.
PDFs (3)
- List of vocabulary and expressions introduced in the lesson, with translations in English.
- Transcription: This is a transcription of the entire lesson (presentation, original TV or movie clip with translation, and conclusion). It’s a good strategy to read the transcription while listening to the entire lesson, or parts of the lesson, as often as you need until you can distinguish and understand every word. You can also chime in with the audio. This way you can focus on pronunciation, the stress patterns and the intonation of words and phrases in Spanish.
- A bit of grammar: An explanation of a couple of the grammar points that came up in the lesson.
Learning activities (2)
A suggestion: To help you retain everything in your long-term memory, it’s a good strategy to repeat these activities a few times over the coming weeks— even if you got everything right the first time.
- Interactive tasks: These activities will help you to memorise the words and expressions from the lesson. You can also hear a native speaker pronouncing the words and phrases.
- Test yourself: These activities will help you to evaluate your comprehension and your knowledge of the words, phrases and grammar points highlighted in the lesson.
«Mejora tu pronunciación»:
Each lesson in these courses focuses on a specific aspect of pronunciation and consists of two parts:
- a demonstration by a native speaker, and
- an interactive session where you can practise pronouncing words and phrases, and compare your pronunciation with that of a native speaker
These lessons supplement our courses based on clips from movies and TV, because if you still have trouble pronouncing some sounds, or recognising words and phrases when they are joined up in native speech, it doesn't matter how well you know grammar, how extensive your vocabulary is, or how many expressions you know.
The goal of these lessons is not to develop a native-speaker accent. This is not very likely for anyone who starts after puberty, and in any case is not necessary, as long as people understand you. However, these lessons will help you to improve your pronunciation and your listening comprehension.
You can try a free sample lesson here.
Your Instructor
The courses and mini-lessons on Real Spanish were written by a team of three experienced language teachers: Elizabeth, Gema and Alexandra. You can learn more about us and the other professionals behind Real Spanish here.