Learning Spanish for Free

My friend Michele posted a couple freebie Spanish links, so I thought I'd toss some out into cyberspace as well.

My Spanish 1 playlist from youtube (vids I have found and shared with my Spanish 1 students to reinforce class concepts)

I especially like tontitofrito's videos. I think if you watched them in order from start to finish, you'd have a whole year's instruction.

Free Spanish printable worksheets

The BBC's free Spanish learning program including 22 interactive episodes and tips to complete it in 12 weeks

Spanish Proficiency Exercises from University of Texas at Austin (to evaluate yourself. Obviously the goal of learning a language is proficiency, not just taking the class.)

LiveMocha Social Language Learning Online
You can join and use all basic features for free: chat, flashcards, messaging, making friends, and more. If you want to learn with a language course, you can try a free option or pay for a premium course. You can learn for free with Basic courses 101, 102, 201 and 202.

That ought to give you some options to choose from. I have more links saved on my other computer, but too many choices sometimes muddy the waters, don't you think?

It's All Greek to Us

Today we started our study of New Testament Greek, using the free program at Kid's Greek.

I chose this program for three reasons.

1 - It's free.
2 - No charge for the program.
3 - I don't have to pay anything.

You think I'm kidding, don't you? LOL Well, I am. A little bit anyway.

Of course, I really don't have any money to spend on this study. I own a book called Basic Greek in 30 Minutes a Day. But I did some of the lessons in ink way back in 1992. I would have used this, but since I didn't use pencil (I hate pencil), there was really no way to reuse it. I didn't want to order more copies, since I'd have to spend money, plus wait for them.

So, google to the rescue! I found Kid's Greek and it looks just right. Not too complicated, especially at the start, pronunciation models are integrated and it's step-by-step to make it simple. There are printable worksheets to reinforce the concepts. Plus, I don't need to know anything, which I do not despite having started learning Greek 19 years ago. lol And not least of all, this adorable cartoon dude is the teacher. ----->

So, one lesson down.

In case you forgot, the reason we are learning Greek is to go along with reading The Lightning Thief. The main character, Percy, studies Ancient Greek in the book.
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