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![]() SALC Orientation sessions are targeted to new students and external users (non-students) who need information about the SALC resources and materials. These sessions take place at the beginning of every term. In order to attend one of our SALC orientation sessions, students can make an appointment by contacting us in person, by phone or sending us an email so they can choose a date and time. Orientation sessions are limited to 20 attendees per session. Students who choose the 3-hour-per-week plan get a 10-hour card and students who choose the 4.5-hour-week plan get a 15-hour card. If a student uses up all of the hours on his SALC card and wants to spend more time in the SALC, he/she can purchase an additional SALC card, whether is a 10-hour card ($200 pesos) or a 15-hour card ($290 pesos). External users (non-students) can also purchase 15-hour cards. Additional SALC cards are for sale in our administrative offices at the Institute. ![]() SCHEDULE: Monday to Friday 7:00am to 8:30pm Saturday 8:00am to 2:00pm |
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Have you had chance to use the Conversatrion Corner activities?
If not, what are you waiting for? If you are interested in improving your conversation skills, find a partner and sign up for a session. The topics are interesting and there is a variety of activities for students of all levels. ![]() Here is why students like the conversation corner:
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Grammar Through Stories: A textbook for intermediate to advanced students who need to improve grammatical accuracy and fluency in English. It provides students with stories to listen to for specific grammar points. |
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ABC Of Common Grammatical Errors: A practical book that enables intermediate and advanced learners to identify errors, see and understand the corrected form and, as a result, improve both their spoken and written English. |
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Basic Vocabulary in Use: This is a reference and practice book for students of English at the basic level. It includes a presentation of the vocabulary, exercises for practice, an audio CD with recordings of example sentences from the book and an answer key. |
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The Woman who disappeared: A novel that includes a cassette or an interactive CD-Rom, which talks about a beautiful blond woman who hires a detective to find her missing sister. Before long, the stage also contains gunmen, dead bodies, policemen and jewel thieves. Appropriate for intermediate students. |
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New Interchange Lab Guides: Series of books with tapes to practice and extend from grammar patterns, functions, vocabulary and pronunciation. It also has listening/repeating and cue/response interactive exercises. There is a book for each level. |
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ABC Pronunciary: This dictionary, which presents all the sounds of the alphabet using the phonics method, includes a video and an audio cassette. For each sound, there is an explanation of how to make the sound with a picture and 3 words containing the sound. It is for beginner levels. |
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True Stories in the News: Newspaper or magazine articles in American English with various reading exercises to be used by beginner students. |
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Interactions Two: This book uses a process approach to writing. It includes many exercises in prewriting and revision. It is appropriate for intermediate to advanced students. |
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Longman preparation course for the TOEFL test: This complete course gives you the skills, strategies, practice and confidence you need to increase your scores on all sections of the TOEFL test as well as on the TWE exam (Test of Written English). It includes a cassette and a CD-ROM. |
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Panorama 1 and 2: A course for beginner to advanced students of French that includes a wide range of learning activities in communicative situations. Each book includes an audio CD. |
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Sowieso 1 and 2: This material for learners of German includes a workbook, an audio cassette and an interactive CD-ROM for each level. It focuses on language skills and prepares students for the First Certificate: "Zertificat Deutsch". |
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Repaso: This is complete review workbook of grammar, communication and culture for intermediate to advanced learners of Spanish. It includes an answer key. |
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The New Oxford Picture Dictionary: A multimedia picture dictionary with vocabulary presented in thematic contexts. All words are spoken and include interactive exercises, memory games, crossword puzzles, short texts and dialogues for listening and reading practice. It can be used at all levels. |
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Reward: This video is for intermediate students. It includes light drama and documentaries based on facts, which make it a flexible and motivating learning tool. |
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Focus on Business: This video shows interesting business topics for advanced students of English. |
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The Diary of Young Girl: This is the story of a young girl who lived in Holland when the Germans invaded in 1942. The book includes a cassette and comprehension questions at the end of the book to help you check for understanding. It is appropriate for intermediate students. |
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Skyline: A series of books for all levels that encourages learning through interesting topics and a wide range of activities. The tasks allow students to develop their skills in all areas, promoting integrated and authentic practice. |
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We have electronic equipment such as CD, DVD and videocassette players, computers with multimedia software and Internet access. All audio equipment has headphones so students can accurately listen to the language they're studying.
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![]() Some teachers spend certain amount of time in the SALC. During this time teachers act as counselors helping students in many ways: they make suggestions on materials and strategies, guide students with instructions and facilitate their speaking activities. JUNIOR COUNSELORS ![]() Junior counselors are students from our Institute who work with us in the SALC. In return, they receive either a full or partial scholarship and have the opportunity to practice the language they are studying. The following are the requirements for becoming a Junior Counselor:
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Agenda Web Hundreds of exercises in English on grammar, vocabulary, listening comprehension activities,verbs ,extra vocabulary, extra gammar and links for teachers. Go to this website Go back to main menu Go to this website Go back to main menu Inglés Mundial English lessons for basic, intermediate and advanced learners. Go to this website Go back to main menu Go to this website Go back to main menu ELC Study Zone - University of Victoria This website is an index with an ample range of materials created by students form the University of Victoria Language Center. It includes grammar presentations, interactive practice exercises, and support websites to develop basic writing skills. Go to this website Go back to main menu Pumarosa Learn English in 30 days! The method “Pumarosa” is an easy one! Just, turn up the speakers and get ready to learn English! Watch - click – listen – speak. “Pumarosa” is a totally FREE domain! The first 15 lessons for beginners are easy and fun. Set aside 15 minutes a day for 15 days. Go to this website Go back to main menu English Zone This site currently includes 3 levels of tutoring designed for students with little background of the English language. Each site includes 4 units with 15 lessons each. It also features Interactive English, a section of the site that offers more advanced lessons. There is a grammar reference guide on the left side of the page. Throughout the first 15 lessons the instructions are in English and Spanish, from there on, the content is only in English. Go to this website Go back to main menu | ||||
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The Internet Grammar of English An on-line grammar course mainly focused on writing for college students, however we think you might find it useful. For this site, you need to activate Javascript on your explorer. Go to this website Go back to main menu English Club Many of these grammar lessons also include exercises to test your knowledge. Yet, if you still have questions, ask Escritorio de Ayuda ESL. Go to this website Go back to main menu English Page Explore our collection of English tutorials with dozens of interactive exercises. Go to this website Go back to main menu EnglishLearner.com Here you will find all kinds of interactive exams and execises: grammar, vocabulary, reading, crosswords, hangman and more. Go to this website Go back to main menu The Road to Grammar Grammar exercises for ESL and EFL students. 365 different exercises that cover several aspects of grammar and vocabulary. Go to this website Go back to main menu | ||||
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Randall's Basic Self-Study Guide A website for basic levels with pre, while and post-listening activities. These listening exercises come along with the audioscript. Go to this website Go back to main menu OM Listen OM LISTEN allows you to practice oral comprehension with exercises and activities in 3 degrees of difficulty and automatic responses. These spoken dialogues and articles include a wide range of possibilities for ESL learners and teachers of English. Basic, intermediate and advanced levels. Go to this website Go back to main menu English Listening Lounge Free listening comprehension execises in the ‘guest’ area for basic, intermediate and advanced learners. Go to this website Go back to main menu Focus English The focus of this site is to understand idiomatic expressions and common use. Each dialogue comes along with carefully designed exercises. Follow the recommended steps and go at your own pace. Go to this website Go back to main menu English Listening Lounge Free listening comprehension execises in the ‘guest’ area for basic, intermediate and advanced learners. Go to this website Go back to main menu Literacynet Authentic stories from CNN arranged by topic with video and audio files that include activities to be carried out after watching the video. Go to this website Go back to main menu EFL Net ComAudio Stories, songs and poems with audio files and vocabulary explanations. Go to this website Go back to main menu Multimedia English Dialogues with exercises, songs with lyrics, games, movies, audio files and much more! Go to this website Go back to main menu Voice of America News from around the world with audio files in clear easy English. Go to this website Go back to main menu | ||||
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Linguarama - Reading This is an excellent site to practice with reading exercises related to certain business topics such as: sales, personnel, culture, finance, marketing, communication, insurance, juridical terms, quality, technology, banking and management. Go to this website Go back to main menu English Short Stories Interesting stories in English that include a set of vocabulary words at the end of each story. Go to this website Go back to main menu | ||||
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The UVic Writer's Guide Originally prepared for English department students at Victoria university. This guide is an introduction to the writing process and the study of literature. Go to this website Go back to main menu ABC Asia Pacific Nexus Video files for beginner and intermediate students with a very detailed revision of the language and terminology. Go to this website Go back to main menu English Trailers Movie clips in movie files which include a summary, exercises, vocabulary notes, scripts and questionnaires. Go to this website Go back to main menu ESL About Audio files with exercises categorized by level. Go to this website Go back to main menu | ||||
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ELC About An advanced reading site with pre-reading vocabulary and post-reading comprehension questions. Go to this website Go back to main menu English Zone Learn and practice idiomatic expressions here. An excellent site for English Students. Go to this website Go back to main menu Dave’s ESL Café List with definitions and examples of idiomatic expressions. Go to this website Go back to main menu | ||||
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Linguarama Learn terms about business topics such as: sales, personnel, culture, finance, marketing, communication, insurance, juridical terms, quality, technology, banking and management. Go to this website Go back to main menu The Tower of English A guide with the best sites on internet to practice English. Go to this website Go back to main menu English Daily American English idiomatic expressions in context, old stories, proverbs, grammar, most common errors, etc. Go to this website Go back to main menu Idioms Slang and Proverbs Hundreds of idiomatic expressions, argot, prepositional verbs and proverbs with examples. Go to this website Go back to main menu The Idiom Jungle On this site, you will find idiomatic expressions, prepositional verbs, argot, execises and notes. Go to this website Go back to main menu Learn English Now A list of idiomatic expressions with their meaning and examples of their use. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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China-Chino.com Learn to read and write Chinese with our free on-line Chinese method! Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Learn Chinese Online All you need to learn about Chinese. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Confucius Institute Online It offers a learning center for Chinese. It includes videos, vocabulary, grammar, functions and a dictionary. The website also has a wide variety of information about the Chinese culture, as well as resources as videos and a digital library. It allows you to select the translations and explanations if you prefer in English, Spanish or other languages. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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ChinesePod A modern way to learn chinese by means of 700 podcast lessons, a vibrant student community, on-line lesson reviews, vocabulary review tools and oral expression practice. All with the purpose of making learning a powerful personalized experience. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Chengo The chinese Embassy’s official site to learn chinese. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Learn Chinese Online Chinese grammar, the basic structure of modern Chinese. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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LanguageCourse.net Grammar exercises of chinese, grammar tutoring and reviews. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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The Chinese Outpost Verbs and word order; Learn how to speak chinese using ”verb tenses”, particles and modals, words to measure and question patterns. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Beginning Chinese Listening Comprehension Listening comprehension lessons by Mr. Weina Zhao from the Chinese language department at Wellesley college. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Connecticut College - Chinese video exercises On this site you’ll find a collection of video clips in Chinese. A set of multiple-choice questions follows each video clip. The transcript of each video is written in traditional Chinese, the English translation appears in a pop-up window. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Wellesley College - Chinese Fables An Introduction to Chinese Proverbs and Their Origins with integrated materials for intermediate and advanced students of Chinese. It is designed to improve students' listening skills. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Zhongwen.com Frequently asked questions about Chinese characters. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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The Chinese Reading World The purpose of this reading program is to provide various extracurricular reading materials suitable for students at different levels. The reading materials are currently divided into two levels: beginning and intermediate. The beginning level is prepared for students who have learned 300-500 characters and the intermediate level is for students who have learned 500-1000 characters. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Clasical Chinese Literature This site contains Chinese classics with each character hyperlinked to its definition and etymology. No Chinese software is necessary - characters are displayed as images. Links to English translations are included for most works. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Sinophilia A writing tutorial for Chinese characters. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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ClearChinese.com The following tutorial is meant to provide beginners what they need to write Chinese characters and find them in a dictionary, but can also amuse advanced students and the curious. Though this is not a language tutorial, learning the fundamental strokes and their correct order helps memorize characters and is an indispensable basis to learn written Chinese. Each lesson provides many examples of single characters and compounds (no Chinese wordprocessor needed to read these pages: all characters will be downloadable images). Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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The Chinese Outpost - An introduction to Chinese characters This site contains all you need to know to write chinese characters: basic characters, the characters’ order, the basis of their construction, etc. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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PinyinPractice.com This useful site helps chinese learners use tones when they speak. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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New Concept Mandarin LEARN Chinese on-line. The most effective way to begin with chinese pronunciation. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Sinosplice.com A complete guide to clarify important issues regarding the pronunciation of Chinese. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Chinese-Tools.com A collection of themed word lists: animals, flowers, colours, food. The most frequently used words with pinyin and English definition. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Learn Chinese Online Vocabulary Trainer With this site, you can easily learn Chinese vocabulary. This vocabulary”trainer” uses simplified chinese characters; It’s the current Chinese writing mainly used in Continental China. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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eChineseLearning.com A variety of vocabulary lessons with audio recordings for an easier comprehension. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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BBC French Lessons with exercises focused on developing listening skills. (With directions in English) Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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French Exams News on video with listening comprehension activities. (With directions in English) Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Bonjour de France This section contains Idiomatic expressions, illustrated with drawings and exercises, to test their application. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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University of Calgary - Department of French, Italian and Spanish Punctuation, prepositions, articles, adverbs and more. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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City College of San Francisco An online French grammar test. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Accord Editions Didier – exercises with an answer key. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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About.com - French Language Improve you listening comprehension skills in French with these activities. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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BBC.com - Talk French An introduction to French on video. Greetings, introductions, shopping, directions to get to different places and more. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Bonjour de France Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Le Monde On this site, you will find brochures with international news, documentaries, reports, images, cartoons, videos, debate forums on current issues, weather forecast and former articles archives. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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About.com - French Reading Comprehension Practice French Reading comprehension with these exercises. Each one of them includes a story or an article, a study guide and exams. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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EdHelper.com Improve you reading comprehension skills in French: the main idea, sequence and summary. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Goethe A collection of links for several sites to learn German. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Themen Neu On this site, you can find exercises for every lesson in the books Themen Neu1 and 2. You will also find materials for teachers and links to practice German on other sites. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Manual de Gramática Alemán This site is intended to provide students, readers, and translators of German with a concise and comprehensive reference grammar, one available on the web. Because we are currently writing the content chapter by chapter, the table of contents is yet incomplete. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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About.com - Grammar/Grammatik German grammar, gramar guides, lessons and exercises. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Verbix.com This site helps you with the conjugation of verbs. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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BBC German Talk A lively introduction to the language in ten short parts. Watch and listen to the clips and have a look at the key language and transcripts if needed. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Tagesschau You can watch short video clips or listen to the news about: politics, economy, technology, etc. (Advanced Level) Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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German for Travellers Exercises with audio and video for various levels (Instructions in English.) Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Interactive WWW German Tutoring Center Listening comprehension exercises. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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RadioWeb.de A variety of radio stations from the web in German. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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About.com A variety of listening comprehension lesson in German for beginners. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Spiegel Online A collection of interesting articles in German. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Struwwelpeter.com The story of Ugly FredericK. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Was ist Was Aktuelle Artikel. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Homepage von Hannelore Uhl Lernwörterspiele als Diktatvorbereitung. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Jetzt online - Fernsehen Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Stufen International Lehrwerk Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Jugendliche und Erwachsene. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters A collection of tongue twisters in German. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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BBC.co.uk Oral practice activities: warm up exercises. Conversation simulations: the world around us, example answers with comments plus exam tips. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Live Mocha Practice your German – oral expression exercises: Was tragen Sie gerade? Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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200words-a-day.com Want to learn german? Learning German is like devouring an elephant, it just has to be swallowed up. Swallow it up! With our fast learning techniques from the masters of memory. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Vocabulix With our online vocabulary flashcard system you are able to practice German vocabulary online and for free. Words will be shown in your mother tongue and you will be asked to translate these words into German. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Iteslj.org Multiple choice interactive tests to learn vocabulary. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Ejercicios de Gramática y ortografía Verbs: Simple Past and Past Progressive, future, Subjunctive, pronouns: possessive, prepositions. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Spanish Steps Spanish Steps will help you learn to speak an easy Spanish. The language that you learn will help you find your way, order food in a restaurant, intoduce yourself, etc. It will also help you predict things other people say to you. The course is made up of 24 short steps or units: Taking a taxi ride, Checking into a hotel, etc. These are organized into 6 sections: Finding your feet, Night out, etc. We'd recommend that you follow them in sequence, though you can just dip into the individual ones. Spanish Steps has been devised to be used in short sessions that you can fit around your own schedule, whenever and for however long it suits you. Frequent, short visits will also help you fix the language in your memory. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Spanish Institute In this guide you will find Spanish dictionaries, Fun Spanish stuff, Spanish gramar, Spanish language schools, Spanish literature, Spanish magazines, Spanish on-line clases, Spanish online forums, Spanish online news, Spanish pronunciation, Spanish spelling and writing, Spanish teaching resouces, and Spanish vocabuary. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Ejercicios de Gramática y ortografía Verbs: Simple Past and Past Progressive, future, Subjunctive, pronouns: possessive, prepositions. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Learn Spanish Learn Spanish grammar. Explanations, writing practice, oral practice, tests, etc. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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About.com - Learn Spanish grammar Verb conjugation, word order, sentence structure, use of pronouns: All these details and more make up the grammar of the Spanish language. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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BBC - Languages, Spanish - Better @ Listening Listening comprehension strategies: 5 steps to understand Spanish native speakers in their own native language. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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eLearn Spanish Language - Ejercicios de Comprension Auditiva en Español Work on your Spanish listening comprehension with these exercises. Each includes a Spanish sound file, study guide, and a short quiz. There is also a full transcript and translation of the audio, which you can use to better understand the sound file. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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OuterSpanish.com - Spanish Listening Comprehension Use the drills and Spanish podcasts on the left side to practice, practice and practice. Within each set of drills there are practice questions to test your comprehension. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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abcTeach.com - Reading comprehension An educational site that offers more than 5000 printable topic units, word games, writing worksheets, book report worksheets, mathematics, ideas, lessons, and much more. A great site for teachers or for those who study to be teachers, for homework, and for those who like to teach in a creactive way. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Reading is fundamental - ¡Leamos en familia! This site is designed to teach Reading in Spanish. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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E. L. Easton - Spanish Reading Newspapers, magazines, roadsigns, poetry and more. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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About.com - Write in Spanish Spelling, punctuation, organization, and all the facets on writing in a language. Here you'll find a complete guide to putting your words on paper or the keyboard . Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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AskOxford.com - Escribiendo una carta en Español Here you will learn to write letters in Spanish and get familiar with the conventions for reading a letter in Spanish. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Spanish Writing Tips A 6-day Spanish course. Verb conjugation: Simple Present, Present Perfect, Simple Past, and more. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Basic Spanish words with Pronunciation Vowels, the alphabet, everyday use phrases, numbers, etc. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Literacy Center Education Network - Play & Learn Spanish Uppercase and lowercase letters, shapes, writing, words, numbers, keyboard and more. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Trabalenguas en Español The web’s largest collection of Spanish tongue twisters. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Vokabel.com Verbs and Vocabulary for business, time, and professions; the forest, the sea and more. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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About.com - Learn Spanish vocabulary Useful links to improve vocabulary in Spanish. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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Lingolex.com The Spanish Word of the month, christmas Vocabulary, physical appearance vocabulary, common proverbs, the human body and more. Go to this website Go back to main menu |
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