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Locked-down or quarantined? Learn some Spanish (for free!)

April 6, 2020 by dontspeak

Hola!

If you’ve time to kill these days, why not spend a little time learning Spanish online at dontspeakspanish.com?

You’ll find ten free grammar explanations, ten exercises to test your understanding, ten vocabulary lists, and my favorites – ten audios with transcripts, and ten monologues/dialogues, also with transcripts.

That’s over fify pages of free Spanish practice, just there!

But there’s more – over at another of our websites, OnlineSpanishClub.com, you’ll find a really useful set of free conversation prompts (for practising speaking, perhaps with an online partner?), as well as two additional levels of grammar explanations, many more listenings with transcripts, a free Spanish ‘easy reader’ (simplified text with audio), and a free Spanish-English parallel text (Spanish texts with an English translation).

Finish that lot and your Spanish will be at least a level better!

Diviértete!

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Spanish – English Parallel Text: Rosa, la pésima cocinera

September 13, 2017 by dontspeak

Spanish - English Parallel Text: Rosa, la pésima cocineraPerhaps you’re thinking of signing up for a Spanish language class this autumn?

But why spend all that time and money when you could be learning Spanish at home with our simplified ebook ‘Rosa, la pésima cocinera‘, and for only £1.99?

Rosa is a good mother and an excellent grandmother… but an awful cook! When Marta, Rosa’s health-conscious daughter, has a domestic emergency, Rosa is left to prepare lunch for her two grandchildren…

‘Rosa’ is a Spanish – English parallel text.

Which means that you get the original story in Spanish, along with an English translation.

That way you can compare the two versions, line by line, to better understand the words and grammar that you’re less familiar with!

There are 8 extremely short chapters to read.

The level is A1 (elementary), though it’s suitable for students at more or less any level who would like to start reading in Spanish.

Download the free sample chapter (.pdf) to take a look!

Normally ‘Rosa’ would cost £7.99…

…but this week only it’s 75% off, at just £1.99!

  • Buy ‘Rosa’, now just £1.99!
  • Browse ebooks for learning Spanish

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Learning Spanish? Download these FREE ebooks!

August 22, 2017 by dontspeak

If you’ve tried our Free Spanish Beginners’ Course, you might also be interested in these two FREE ebooks for learning Spanish:

‘El restaurante‘ is an ‘easy reader’, a simplified story with exercises and audio. It’s IDEAL for beginners!

‘La sorpresa‘ is an Spanish/English parallel text, also intended for beginners. You get the original Spanish story, and an accompanying English translation, so you can compare them line by line.

Both titles are available as FREE DOWNLOADS from EasyReaders.Org, no payment details or registration required!

Click this link to browse easy readers and parallel texts for learning Spanish and to order your two FREE ebooks today.

P.S.

There are also free easy readers and parallel texts for students learning French, Italian and German.

Tell your friends!

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Spanish Easy Readers, Spanish/English Parallel Texts, -20%!

April 15, 2017 by dontspeak

Learning Spanish?

Then you’ll be interested to know that easyreaders.org is having an Easter Sale on ebooks for language learners.

Stock up today on Spanish easy readers and parallel texts and you’ll save 20%!

Copy and paste this coupon into the box in your shopping cart (where it says ‘Apply coupon’):

easter offer 2017

Shop now: ebooks for learning Spanish

Summary:

  • Shop for Spanish easy readers and Spanish/English parallel texts at easyreaders.org
  • Use coupon code easter offer 2017 to save 20%
  • The offer is valid through 23/04/17
  • There’s no min. or max. spend
  • The coupon can be used multiple times until the end of the offer on 23rd April 2017
  • It applies to items on sale too (but cannot be used with other coupons you may have)

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Last day to get £10 worth of free ‘Learn Spanish’ ebooks!

February 18, 2017 by dontspeak

Last 24 hours to get your FREE Spanish ebook.

The £10 voucher on ‘Learn Spanish’ ebooks expires tomorrow.

I’ve pasted the code and the details below, but I just wanted to make sure you knew what you were missing!

You could use your £10 voucher to buy a Spanish easy reader, a simplified story complete with exercises, glossaries and audio.

For example ‘A golpe de tijeras‘:

Roberto and Cristina have been married for forty years and together run their own hairdressing salon. Naturally, they know everyone’s secrets, and like to help people if they can…

  • Free sample chapter (.pdf)
  • ‘Buy’ the full version for £7.99 with your £10 voucher

Or perhaps you’d prefer a Spanish/English parallel text?

They’re really helpful for learning the language, as they feature the Spanish text on one side of the page and the English text on the other side.

That’ll build your confidence with Spanish texts, while exposing you to new vocabulary and consolidating the grammar structures you’re studying elsewhere.

Choose to read just the Spanish, or compare Spanish and English texts line by line.

There are seven stories available in our online shop. Personally, I liked ‘Rosa, la pésima cocinera‘:

Rosa is a good mother and an excellent grandmother… but an awful cook! When Marta, Rosa’s health-conscious daughter, has a domestic emergency, Rosa is left to prepare lunch for her two grandchildren…

  • Free sample chapter (.pdf)
  • ‘Buy’ the full version for £7.99 with your £10 voucher

Compare all your options in the ‘Learn Spanish‘ section of our online shop.

But don’t forget, the voucher expires tomorrow!

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VOUCHER INFORMATION

Your FREE £10 voucher code is:

Learn_Spanish_£10_Voucher

Copy and paste it into the shopping cart at easyreaders.org.

If you spend less than £10, no payment information will be asked for or taken.

I’ll just send out your order in the usual way, as for any customer.

This can take up to 24 hours, as I do it manually.

If you want ebooks costing more than £10, the cart total will be reduced by £10 and you’ll pay the difference.

Spend your £10 voucher now!

Offer Conditions

  • the voucher is good for anything in our online shop
  • it’s worth £10
  • the offer ends on 19/02/17
  • the voucher is good for ebooks which are already on sale, too
  • but it won’t work together with other coupon codes or vouchers
  • this offer is limited to one voucher per user

Spend your £10 voucher now!

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Free Spanish E-Book Voucher Expires Soon!

February 16, 2017 by dontspeak

Here’s a quick follow up, to make sure you don’t miss out on this week’s £10 voucher offer.

Use £10 voucher code Learn_Spanish_£10_Voucher to get a free ebook from our online shop.

Choose the ebooks you need to help you learn Spanish, then just copy and paste the voucher code into your shopping cart.

If your ebook selections total less than £10, no payment information will be asked for or taken. We’ll just send out your order in the usual way.

If you have ordered ebooks costing more than £10, the cart total will be reduced by the voucher amount.

Plenty of people have been ordering just the one ebook (normal price £7.99) and so paying nothing at all!

Others have picked out several easy readers and parallel texts to include in their study programs, but using the voucher code the final amount they’ve paid has modest…

Weeks, or months, of study material for just a few pounds!

So, do take a look to see what’s available: Learn Spanish Ebooks

Offer Conditions

  • the voucher is good for anything in our online shop
  • it’s worth £10
  • the offer ends on 19/02/17!
  • the voucher is good for ebooks which are already on sale, too
  • but it won’t work together with other coupon codes or vouchers
  • this offer is limited to one voucher per user

Spend your £10 voucher now!

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Your £10 voucher for ‘Learn Spanish’ ebooks!

February 15, 2017 by dontspeak

Learning Spanish?

As language learners and teachers ourselves, we know that having a variety of materials, at a level that’s right for you, helps!

However good your grammar or course book is, sometimes it’s just nice to work on something different…

So, we’d like you to take a look at the ebooks in our online shop.

And to make it worth your while, here’s a FREE £10 voucher code:

Learn_Spanish_£10_Voucher

Copy and paste the voucher code into the shopping cart at easyreaders.org.

If you spend less than £10, no payment information will be asked for or taken.

We’ll just send out your order in the usual way.

If you want ebooks costing more than £10, the cart total will be reduced by £10 and you’ll pay the difference.

Spend your £10 voucher now!

Offer Conditions

  • the voucher is good for anything in our online shop
  • it’s worth £10
  • the offer ends on 19/02/17
  • the voucher is good for ebooks which are already on sale, too
  • but it won’t work together with other coupon codes or vouchers
  • this offer is limited to one voucher per user

Spend your £10 voucher now!

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Learn Spanish the fun way, reading and listening!

December 1, 2016 by dontspeak

Learning a new language can be a slog.

However much enthusiasm we may have at the beginning, sooner or later other priorities come along.

Our good intentions fall by the wayside.

And eventually, we quit.

There’s some great free stuff on our site dontspeakspanish.com (now with improved navigation icons, take a look!)

But if you get through that, where next?

How to maintain the momentum??

Well, here’s some good news.

One fun way to learn Spanish, or any foreign language, is to put aside the grammar books as soon as possible and actually get using what you’re learning!

How?

If you can’t spend time in a Spanish-speaking country, try ‘easy readers’!

These are simplified stories (with audio) designed to get you reading and listening to the new language.

Or if you’re the more analytical type, you might prefer ‘parallel texts’.

They may be the same story as in the ‘easy readers’ version, but formatted in a different way.

Instead of the audio, you get a chapter-by-chapter translation into English.

In a parallel text, each line is numbered, so you can read the first few lines of the story in Spanish, then check your understanding with the same-numbered lines in English.

Cool, huh?

Either way, you’ve got the fun of following the story, while all the while learning new words and consolidating the grammar you’ve been sweating over.

And when you finish one, there’s this huge satisfaction!

It’ll really boost your confidence and make you want more, more, more!

Right now, over at easyreaders.org’s Learn Spanish department, there’s a 50% OFF deal on their whole range of easy readers and parallel texts.

But keep your cash in your pocket for the moment – for each title there’s a free sample chapter!

Just click on the title that interests you and look for the ‘free sample chapter’ download link.

Oh, and better still?

If you look carefully you’ll see that there’s one title, ‘El restaurante‘, which is absolutely free!

Get the whole ebook to read and listen to, right now!

Add it to your cart, and proceed with your order in the normal e-commerce manner.

But no payment details are asked for, so you can see if you like this way of learning before making a commitment.

If this works for you, getting yourself other material at the right level is easy and fast.

So in no time at all, you’ll be back on track with your Spanish…

And having fun at the same time!

Free Spanish easy reader ebook | 50% OFF ‘Learn Spanish’ ebooks | dontspeakspanish.com

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Psst! Want to get a FREE Spanish easy reader with audio?

November 10, 2016 by dontspeak

Psst!

If you’re studying Spanish, you’ll want to know that starting today, EasyReaders.Org is offering one free ebook download for each of their major languages: Italian, Spanish, French & German.

For more information about the offer, check out this article.

Or just click here to download your free Spanish easy reader!

Filed Under: Learning Spanish, News

Who is our beginners’ Spanish course for, anyway?

January 4, 2016 by dontspeak

Thanks to Janet, who wrote to me to point out that our beginners’ Spanish course is actually, in places, much harder than typical material served up for beginners.

She’s right, of course.

But whether you’ll find the material on dontspeakspanish.com suitable for you will depend on a variety of factors.

Perhaps the most important of these is your mother tongue. For an Italian or French speaker learning Spanish, the similarities between your first language and the ‘target’ language (the one you hope to learn) are such that a lot of the material should, in any case, be understandable.

That’s obviously not true for a native English speaker who has never learned a foreign language before. English is unlike Spanish in its grammar and much of its vocabulary.

But an English mother-tongue speaker who has already studied another Latin-origin language like French or Italian should have a similar advantage.

Another factor is your previous language-learning experience.

If you’ve never studied a foreign language before, you will likely find the free material available at dontspeakspanish.com difficult, maybe just too hard.

But if you’ve already mastered any other foreign language (suppose you’re Japanese, and have successfully learned English), then the skills you’ve already picked up, in terms of studying, and the confidence already gained in your own abilities, should help a lot.

Conclusion? Our beginners’ Spanish course won’t be ideal for everyone.

How to know if it’ll work for you?

Visit dontspeakspanish.com and give it a try!

Filed Under: Learning Spanish, News

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Learning Spanish? Easy Reader & Parallel Text Ebooks

‘Easy readers’ are simplified stories with audio to get you reading and listening in Spanish.

‘Parallel texts’ have a Spanish text and an English translation to compare it to.

Which best fits YOUR way of learning?

Browse ebooks at your level – download FREE SAMPLE CHAPTERS:
Spanish Easy Readers
Spanish Parallel Texts

Spanish Beginners’ Course

Grammar
101 Possessive Adjectives
102 Gender
103 Adjectives
104 Plurals
105 Hay
106 Demonstratives
107 Personal Pronouns
108 Articles
109 Ser - To Be
110 Possessive Pronouns


Exercises
101 Possessive Adjectives
102 Gender
103 Adjectives
104 Plurals
105 Hay
106 Demonstratives
107 Personal Pronouns
108 Articles
109 Ser - To Be
110 Estar - To Be

Vocabulary
101 Family
102 Clothes
103 Travel
104 Personal Information
105 City
106 Body
107 Professions
108 Descriptions
109 Shops
110 Home Contents

Listening practice
101 Possessive Adjectives
102 Gender of nouns
103 Adjectives
104 Plurals
105 Hay
106 Demonstratives
107 Personal pronouns
108 Articles
109 Ser
110 Estar
111 Possessive pronouns

Dialogues
101 Un día en la vida
102 En el aula de clase
103 En la escuela de idiomas
104 Al teléfono
105 Una tarde en la cocina
106 En un hotel
107 Conversación entre una pareja
108 Escuchando la radio
109 En la oficina de turismo
110 En la estación de trenes

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