Listening

This is one of the most important aspects of language learning because it takes place everywhere. Nowadays, there are many options available to language learners, such as podcasts, apps, and web pages.

Spotify Podcasts to learn Spanish:

Coffee break Spanish

First lessons are for beginners, but the course increase in difficulty as the season progress.

Doorway to Mexico

Learn Spanish from Mexico with intermediate and advanced conversations.

Charlas Hispanas

Podcast for intermediate students who want to learn Latin American culture.

Españolistos

Podcast spoken in Latin American Spanish geared towards intermediate and advanced language learners.

The Unlimited Spanish Podcast

Beginner to intermediate podcast about Spanish culture and language.

Best app for Spanish listening:

LyricsTraining

(Free)

Improve and practice your listening skills with this app. You can fill in the gaps to the lyrics as you listen and sing Karaoke.

Sites for Spanish listening practice:

Kwiziq

(Free and paid plans)

Practice your Spanish listening skills with their Spanish audio articles and dictations exercises organized by levels.

News in Slow Spanish

($22.90 USD billed monthly)

It offers real Spanish news spoken at a slower rate than typical conversations.

123 teach me

(Free)

It has authentic Spanish monologues and dialogues. Each lesson is accompanied with an mp3 audio file and a quiz with answers.

Many people learn languages by watching the culture of other countries on TV and in movies. Try to watch with subtitles in the language you want to learn.

YouTube channels for
Spanish learners:

Spanish with Paul

Learn Spanish words and vocabulary with very easy lessons.

TED-Ed en Espanol

It has talks in Spanish with subtitles

Easy Spanish

It publishes interviews with people on the streets in order to get to know the Spanish language as spoken in everyday life.

BBC Mundo

This is a channel that makes videos about news and current topics. Here you will also find documentaries and interviews in Spanish with subtitles.

Destinos

It is a TV series that immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers and introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico.

Tu Escuela de Espanol

In this channel you will find videos about grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, colloquial expressions and more.

El País

It offers breaking news as well as documentaries. EL PAÍS publishes its best audiovisual content on YouTube.

How to
Spanish
Lessons

This channel offers Spanish lessons and podcasts to help you improve your Spanish vocabulary, grammar and to help you get exposure to real-life language.

Why not
Spanish?

It is a channel that has grammar lessons, interviews vlogs and more.

Spanish and Go

It is a resource for learning real-world travel Spanish. Learn about the culture, traditions, and language of places around the world where people speak Spanish.

Best shows on Netflix to learn Spanish:

Club de Cuervos

Two siblings who fight over ownership and direction of a football team.

Who
Killed
Sara

The series follows Álex Guzmán, who, after spending 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, is finding out who killed his sister Sara and getting revenge.

Somos

It tells the story of the massacre perpetrated by the Los Zetas cartel on the border town of Allende, Coahuila, in 2011.

Money
Heist

Eight thieves take hostages and lock themselves in the Royal Mint of Spain as a criminal mastermind manipulates the police to carry out his plan.

Bolivar

This dramatization depicts the life and loves of Venezuelan liberator Simón Bolívar, who helped liberate several Latin American countries from Spain.

Other tools:

LingoPie

(12 $ per month)

A paid for site with interesting

documentaries and shows with both subtitles and the ability to save words for vocabulary

Language Reactor

There is an amazing extension that has both subtitles in English and Spanish, precise video playback controls and many more features when watching films and series on the Netflix website, and also channels on Youtube. It’s free!