FREE Spanish Audio and Video Files

Title: Notes in Spanish

Website: http://www.notesinspanish.com
Overview: Husband and wife team discuss many topics dealing with life in Spain. Husband (Ben) is
British and wife (Marina) is from Madrid. Even with the Castellano accent, Marina is actually
easier to understand than Ben!
Most topics are about everyday life in Spain with some great historical background about how the
Franco dictatorship continues to affect Spanish life of today. Typical topics are:
Spains immigration policy
The tapas tradition of Spain
Tourism in Spain
How Spaniards celebrate Christmas, New Years and the 6th of January (Da de Reyes)
The Spanish cinema
Weather in Madrid
The Madrid traffic
Plus much more. This is a great way to learn much about the culture and daily life in Madrid
and Spain.
There are 4 formats of the conversations: Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced and Gold. Beginner
level has more English and covers some grammar (por vs para, ser vs estar, etc.). Intermediate
and Advanced files are about 100% en espaol with the same vocabulary level. The speed of the
conversation is the real difference in these 2 levels. Gold format is 10 minutes in Spanish and 10
minutes analyzing Spanish vocabulary in the conversation.
All audio files are all free and are available in podcast and .mp3 format.
All pod casts are also available FREE from the iTunes Store.
Search for Notes in Spanish. Each of the levels has an album icon at the top of the iTunes
page as Notes in Spanish Beginner, Notes in Spanish Intermediate, Notes in Spanish
Advanced and Notes in Spanish Gold. Clicking each album icon will provide all free
podcasts for that level.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Notes in Spanish Videos
Website: http://www.notesinspanish.com/category/videoblogging
If you like the Notes in Spanish audios above you might want to watch their Notes in Spanish free
videos. Ben and Marina provide videos with a vocabulary guide after each one. Some of the video
were filmed on location throughout Madrid.
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Title: Spanish Audio Gazette

Website: http://lab.chass.utoronto.ca/rescentre/spanish
Overview: The University of Toronto has offered this collection of free audios and transcripts on a
variety of Hispanic cultural topics. The audios are grouped according to the speakers Spanish
accent.
Click on a topic to open the window to the transcript. Double click on the links for the audio either in
the wav or mp3 format. Audios can only be downloaded from the website. Right click on the wav or
mp3 format link and select download.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: News In Slow Spanish
Website: http://www.newsinslowspanish.com
Overview: Audio files for students that want to begin listening to audio files at a slower than normal
rate. The news topics are directed to listeners with a basic vocabulary and grammar.
On the web site, there are links to short free files about each broadcast. The free portion of the
weekly podcasts are about 8 minutes.
These free audio files are also available at the iTunes Store for free download. Search with News in
Slow Spanish.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: News in Slow Spanish Latino
Website: http://www.newsinslowspanish.com/latino/?force_switch
Overview: This web site is the sister site of the original News in Slow Spanish above. The news
articles are exclusively from the Americas. The format is the same as the News in Slow Spanish.
The free weekly podcasts are about 8 minutes.
These free audio files are also available at the iTunes Store for free download. Search with News in
Slow Spanish Latino.
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Title: Coffee Break Spanish

Website: https://radiolingua.com/coffeebreakspanish
Overview: This site is produced by Radio Lingua, which provides audio files in many languages.
The Coffee Break Spanish is designed for Beginners/Intermediate students. At the top of the page
is a link for Free Lessons. From the drop down menu select Coffee Break Spanish. There will be
links for Section 1, 2 or 3. Click on the Lesson number and title to change to the audio page. The
download link is under the audio player.
All podcasts are also available FREE from the iTunes Store. Search with Coffee Break Spanish.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Caf Cortado
Website: http://coffeebreakspanish.typepad.com/cafecortado
Overview: This site is produced by Radio Lingua. This is mostly in English answering questions
about Spanish from listeners. Typical questions involve grammar, numbers, directions, etc. There
are many conceptual ideas presented on how to learn Spanish. This is particularly good for
beginners.
The link to the 5 files is indexed on the right of the web page. To listen to the audio, click the
Download mp3 file link.
All podcasts are also available FREE from the iTunes Store. Search with Caf Cortado.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Show Time Spanish
Website: http://radiolingua.com/members/sts-seasons-1-and-2
Overview: Produced by Radio Lingua. The 2 commentators are Mark (from Scotland) and Alma
(from Barcelona, Spain) and Carolina (from Bogat, Columbia after episodes #31). Marks English
with a Scottish accent is harder to understand than his Spanish!
To listen to any of the 40 lessons, click on the mp3 link in the Basic Main Podcast column.
Each episode is divided in 3 parts. The first part is 100% en espaol. The second part is a quick
lesson in 2 or 3 phrases that are commonly used and can make a person sound moreSpanish!
The third part is a review or a discussion of some part of grammar.
Every 5th episode there is a telenovela to an ongoing story called Verano Espaol. All podcasts
are also available FREE from the iTunes Store. Search with Show Time Spanish.
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Title: Basic Spanish: SPN101, SPN102, SPN103

Website: http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/basic-spanish-spn101-spn102/id388885594
Overview: These podcasts are produced by the De Paul University College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences to support their basic Spanish courses. These are directed to beginners and provide
excellent listening comprehension. Most of the podcasts have very little English as an introduction.
The majority of the podcasts are in Spanish.
To listen to the podcast place the mouse over the title and click on the play icon that will appear to
the left of the title.
These free podcasts are available from the iTunes Strore. Search with Basic Spanish: SPN101,
SPN102, SPN103.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Destinos: An introduction to Spanish
Website: http://www.learner.org/resources/series75.html
Overview: This is a collection of video files that are played from streaming video from the web site.
The program was originally broadcast on Public Broadcast Stations (PBS) as a teaching tool for
Spanish students.
The format is a telenovela (Spanish soap opera) providing dialogue to increase vocabulary and
listening comprehension. There are 52 episodes and each is 30 minutes.
There is no capability to download these videos, and the free videos must be played on a computer.
Each video has a gold box labeled VoD. Double click on the VOD link to open a new video
window, which begins the episode.
The Spanish spoken will include accents from throughout Latin America and Spain.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Nuevo Destinos
Website: http://www.learner.org/resources/series151.html
Overview: This is a follow-on series of the original Destinos above. The plot retraces the events of
the original series many years later upon the notice a letter that Pedro has died.
There is no capability to download these videos, and the free videos must be played on a computer.
Each video has a gold box labeled VoD. Double click on the VOD link to open a new video
window, which begins the episode.
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Title: Cadena SER program files

Overview: Cadena SER is one of Spains major radio stations and has been broadcasting since
1926 and has 4+ million listeners. All the latest podcasts are available to listen via streaming audio
on the websites below. To download any audio, right click the play icon and select the download
option. These free podcasts are available from the iTunes Strore. Search with the name of each
program below.
Program title: Hoy por hoy
Website: http://www.cadenaser.com/hoy-por-hoy
These audios are interviews with prominent people who are subject matter experts. The
speed is real time Spanish from Spain. All of Spanish language accents are represented
with many guests from Latin America.
---------------------------------------Program Title: Ser Historia
Website: http://www.cadenaser.com/ser-historia
This is a talk-radio history program that explores many historical topics in the 55 minute
program. To download any podcast right click the play icon and select download.
Thiese free podcasts are available from iTunes Store.
---------------------------------------Program Title: Pretrito Imperfecto
Website: http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-preterito-imperfecto_sq_f160919_1.html
This is a talk-radio history program produced for Cadena Ser radio. Podcasts are about 15
minutes and cover a variety of subjects. Free audios may be played via streaming audio on
a computer or downloaded via the iTunes Store.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Nmadas
Website: http://www.rtve.es/radio/nomadas
Overview: This is a talk-radio travel program produced by Radio Nacional de Espaa (RNE). To
listen to the podcast click on the title. Click the play button labled Reproducir. To manually
download, right click the link titled Llvatelo en mp3 and select the download option.
These free podcasts are available from the iTunes Strore. Search with Nmadas.
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Videos
Title: Eres T, Mara?
Website: https://wikis.engrade.com/erestumaria
Overview: This is a series of videos produced by Prentice Hall Publishers for the textbook
Realidades. These videos are used for Spanish I classes to develop listening comprehension. The
story line is used to connect the 10 videos.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/syllabus.shtml
Overview: This is a free series of 21 interactive videos filmed in Spain to teach survival Spanish.
There is a story line and this is a great way for beginners to get started or people who are reconnecting with Spanish to see how much they remember.
The website offers links to the videos, the entire transcript, lists of grammar notes and vocabulary
lists sorted by episode. All text material can be printed for free if the person wants a copy to make
notes.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Madrileos por El Mundo
Website: http://www.telemadrid.es/mxm
This is a regular series produced by TeleMadrid. The format is to interview people who live in other
parts of the world who that were originally from Madrid.
Double click on the title to play the video.
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Title: Espaoles en el Mundo

Website: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/espanoles-en-el-mundo
Overview: This is the same format that became popular in with other stations in Spain. There are
interviews of Spaniards who live in different countries. This series is produced by Radio y
Televisin Espaola or RTVE.
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Title: Andaluces por el Mundo

Website: http://www.canalsuralacarta.es/television/programa/andaluces-por-el-mundo/12
Overview: Canal Sur Andaluca has used the same popular format of interviewing people from
Andaluca who live in outside of Spain. If you were ever curious about the Andalucan accent this is
the place to listen to it.