Tools For Spanish Language Learning - Speaking
Process Option 01 - "Start Immediately"
- Use the new language as a communication tool from day one. When the tool is relevant to me it is learned and put to use the fastest.(Lonsdale) (Lewis, Chapter 5)
Process Option 02 - watch pronunciation where words come together
- Lewis has some good tips in chapter 6 (Lewis)
Process Option 03 - Shift all self talk to the target language from the first
- Comment to yourself about what you see etc.(Lewis)
- If you use self talk guiding questions, put them in target language
- It is a basis for thinking in other language (Lewis)
Process Option 04 - Learn Conversational Connectors to keep the chatter going
- Single words are show stoppers (Lewis)
- Help the other person carry the load (Lewis)
- They are not content specific (Lewis)
- They establish intimacy (Lewis)
- Start thinking up your own which fit you (Lewis)
- They help folks relax(Lewis)
- His website has translations for key ones in many languages (English list in final chapter) (Lewis)
- Apologizing (Lewis)
- Dis/agreeing (Lewis)
- Closing (Lewis)
- Filler (Lewis)
- Elaborating (Lewis)
- Opening(Lewis)
- Passing(Lewis)
- Qualifying(Lewis)
- Quoting (Lewis)
- Switching (Lewis)
- Listen for such words and jot them down
- hold conversation in Spanish Spanish Dict site
- starters take lessons .com site
- test knowledge of responses online Buzzfeed site
- Getting down into it by Fluent U - site
- 14 steps on wiki how site
- good phrases study .com site
- links page to useful transitions on linguee site
- 5 steps to good conversation fluent in 3 months site
- A Krashen book (free online) Principles and Practices Krashen figures that output of writing and speaking do not actually help the mind to acquire a language subconsciously, but flag to outsiders just how much to (automatically) simplify their output to you. He is very much into learning ways to manage the conversations at the first to keep the flow going and figures such skills are not hard to learn.
Process Option 05 - Language-101 type of course
- To Top of Spanish language-101 sampler They take a fast pace speech oriented approach, not so much written.
- Evelyn Montano's course on Udemy Is an excellent walk through of the sounds of Spanish by a Mexican American speaker.
Extremely well taught with plenty of aids like flashcards and practice sessions. She has a section at the end on stress.
Process Option 06 - Engage in Dialogues on YouTube
Process Option 07 - Pintrist Lists
- Speaking cues by theme Pintrist topic
Process Option 08 - Find a Real Person To Talk With
- Bodmer notes that it is advisable to use real people to talk with, who have something of interest to you as it will make the conversations fresh and grounded, rather than artificial. (p.15)
Process Option 09 - Strategize as to which of the Four Skills To take on First
- Bodmer Has some fascinating observations about which of the four of the basic skills to take on first. He notes that reading from journalists and novelists (to say nothing of science and technology writers) takes 15,000 words of vocabulary rather than 1700 for normal self expression in speech and writing. (Bodmer pp.11-16)
Process Option 10 - Check for tips from people pushed into it
- Medics tips for limited language base Cross-cultural site for Doctors
- Activities to promote Interaction A PDF - school based, multi levels, on CAL.org site
- Kieran Ball's free PDF download The Happy Linguist In pages 19-90 (mostly space for illustrations - a few minute read) the author talks of (reluctantly) having to spend a year abroad as a course prerequisite in languages, and how she coped with it
and has great suggestions about how to break the hesitancy gap...awesome stuff!
Process Option 11 - Check out Teacher Resources for encouraging involvement, for ideas
- Activities to promote Interaction A PDF - school based, multi levels, on CAL.org site
Process Option 12 - Learn the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) For Spanish and English
- Bodmer in his Loom of Language book, says it just takes a few hours and pays off for all languages learned, and gives a bit of background to it (in Chapter 2)
- Wiki on IPA
- Overall sound chart
- overall chart with audio
- Full IPA chart with sub charts On IPA site
- Google Images for IPA chart
- English sub-set on antimoon site with audio
- item on phonetic transcription On antimoon site - adaptations of he system used in transcription
- Their intro to Phonetic transcription
- IPA explanation on Omniglot site - with a great set of links
- Wiktionary's multi language chart well laid out by symbol. As this is a dictionary, they also have extensive links to each sample word, which then leads off to a rhyming list...awesome resource.
- IPA tutorial 1On dialect blog site
- IPA vowel cheat sheet On Dialect site
- IPA - consonants cheat sheet On Dialect site
- IPA - link page to all 4 of their tutorials On Dialect site
- IPA tutorial On Native lang.com site, with embedded videos off YouTube, with explanation of physical formation of sounds for each
- IPA introon IPA site
- How to remember the IP vowel chart On all things linguistic blog site
- IPA learning tool On MIT edu site
- Mouth as precision instrument Memory and IPA - on awesome memory site
- Advice to take or audit an intro Linguistics course Interesting comment on the blog says forget the charts and start with Englsih, the charts ae too scientific to start with.
- Phonemes material as an opening bridge to IPA - reverse engineer it and use English to understand IPA - cool trick from the item above this one.
- online keyboard copy and paste your results - on IPA site - guidance on how to get your computer to co-operate
- York U voice and speach tool for IPA
- free tool for learning IPA on Memrise site - starts with English base
- cool learning tool and pronounciation checker. An ESL tool for preparing for various tests
- Rachael's vowels on Rachail's English site
- Rachael's consonants on Rachail's English site
- Usefulness of IPA for language learning Q&A on reference.com site
- Some great tools for learning IPA Tedpower site
- Ed paper on teaching IPA PDF on Standford U site
- Phonology segment On Teachit site in the UK
- IPA for Spanish Wiki page on it
- Spanish PhonologyWiki page on it
- Every IPS Spanish sound With audio
- ANKI spaced repetition software for the next item
- Anki Spanish materials For software in item above - spaced repetition
- Minor Latin American differences In Pronunciation - Wiki page
- Spanish transcription tool on easy pronunciation site
- Online keyboard tool All languages IPA - on typeit .org site
- links to online spanish phoenetic dictionaries responses to a question on Duolingo
Process Option 13 - Check out teacher tips for assisting with pronunciation
- Tips for teaching Bk for sale
Process Option 14 -Check Out Internet Explanations - Like On YouTube
- Butterfly Spanish Ana's YouTube channel has a great explanation of the unique sound differences in some letters, working backwards from the Alphabet to the sounds. Her 7 short free videos are excellent and very listenable.
- Lisa Warren has a great presentation of the alphabet on her YouTube channel... how to say the letters as well as the sounds the letters stand for
- There is a print version of how to make the sounds On The Wiki-how website
- An audio and print presentation of he sounds is on the 1-2-3 teach me website
- An audio and print version of the latest Royal Spanish Academy listing of letters is on the Study Spanish site
- In order to consolidate so much material on this subject, I made a section in my study binder for the letters and their sounds. I made one page for each letter or combination of letters unique to Spanish. I put several sections down each page. Across the top I put the letter and how it is talked about, as well as the sounds that it stands for, and the IPA symbol(s)generally used to describe the sound(s). Then I made a section for some example words, which use the letter at different positions in the words, as sometimes this makes a difference. Then I made a section for notes on pronunciation gleaned from other teachers' comments when I hear them.
Process Option 15 - Check out the wealth of material on Stress / Syllable / Mona based timing of your target language
- A brief explanation of Stress based (English) Language One of the best explanations of the significance of this which I have come across.
- A brief text explanation of the phenomena On the Blackwell Reference Online site
- A longer test based explanation of it.
- Text book excerpt on itIn French
- YouTube explanation Barone English piece
- Professor Jason's piece On YouTube
- French and Spanish use the syllable timing system Pascal on YouTube
- Learn French With Vincent has a YouTube piece on Syllables, related to French, but Spanish is similar...it will get you started
- Evelyn Montano's course on Udemy Is an excellent walk through of the sounds of Spanish by a Mexican American speaker.
Extremely well taught with plenty of aids like flashcards and practice sessions. She has a section at the end on stress.
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