languages

[sasserina]

Can anybody help with advice please..I want to learn spanish at home...what are the best cd's, books to buy ?

[Hgrove]

I gather the BBC language courses are very good (can buy from BBC shops or website).

[Jules001]

I can't remember where I read it, but the Michael Thomas language courses were highly recommended - I just haven't got around to getting them yet.

[trudileach]

Michel Thomas' CD's are good (but boring) but there are zillions of free sites on the internet which will help although possibly not with the pronunciation. Here are a few that might be of interest... http://spanish.about.com/mbody.htm

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/ltc/lfa/spanishgrammar.htm

and this used to be free but I'm not so sure now http://www.skillkit.org.uk/essentialspanish/registration/index.htm

There is also a Pimsleur Spanish course which someone I know has downloaded from the internet but it's not so hot on the correct verb endings... enough information.. I can feel you glazing over!

I am English, living and struggling with the language in Spain!

[SteveD]

The Routledge language series, "Colloquial xxxxx; The Complete Course for Beginners" are very good (well laid out with good explanations).

You can get cassettes to accompany them.  For Spanish they do two versions, one just called "Colloquial Spanish" and the other "Colloquial Spanish of Latin America".  You can get them at WHS or through Amazon.

Make sure you get the right one as there are considerable differences.

[JOEYSHABADO]

Did spanish at uni. We used 'A practical Spanish Grammar' and 'Batt & Benjamin' for reference.

Great stuff. Also recommend hanging out in spanish internet chatrooms, and getting magazines and stuff in spanish, that you would really like to read in english anyway. Language learning gets reaaaaaaally dull unless you take these measures.