Spain: A Resource Site for Learning Spanish


I find the following sites useful.

  1. Books:
    1. Edgar Allen Poe: Rue Morgue
    2. Jules Verne en espanyol
    3. La isla del tesoro by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Treasure Island"
    4. El prisionero de Zenda (1894): The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)
    5. Project Gutenberg: in Espanyol:
    6. Sherlock Holmes en espanyol
    7. Los Tres Mosqueteros
    8. Viaje al centro de la Tierra: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne (1828--1905). Cartoon: Viaje al Centro de la Tierra | 47:51, George Miller: Viaje al centro de la Tierra | 1:31:09, Audiolibro subtitulada: Viaje al centro de la Tierra | 7:57:01: best so far. 2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth - Brendan Fraser | 1:17:09: "Couldn't you make the video quality any worse?" 23:00---journey to the center of the Earth, the first 40 meters. 57:00. Journey to the Center of the Earth Movie 1959 | 1:47:33: Cut off, poor sound.
    9. Wiksource en espanyol
  2. The Champions (1967 TV show) in Espanyol: Los invencibles de nemesis:
    1. 1: The Beginning | 47:40: no subs.
    2. 2: The Invisible Man | 47:38: no subs. With Peter Wyngarde (1927?--2018). 7:18 Peter, 8:10 Richard smokes.
    3. Box 666 | 48:42 no subs.
    4. The Experiment | 48:51: no subs
    5. The Happening | 48:33: no subs, 7:40 Richard arrives at Joe's, 10:40 banner, 13:00 bomb headquarters
    6. Operation Deep Freeze | 48:41: no subs
    7. The Survivors | 48:30: Spanish subtitles
    8. To Trap a Rat | 48:40 No subs.
    9. The Iron Man | 48:28: No subs.
    10. The Ghost Plane | 48;19: Spanish subtitles, 4:24 street soccer vignette, 5:50 tremayne's office, 7:50 chamonix
    11. The Fanatics | 48:49: Spanish subtitles,
    12. The Gilded Cage | 48:36: Spanish subtitles. 12:40 bl
    13. The Shadow of the Panther | 48:25 9:00 Donald, 17:00 Sharron lovely, done
    14. case of lemmings 48:05 subs
    15. The Mission | 48:36: Subs. 4:47 Sharron car vignette, 5:54, the look. 10:00 Sharron posing, 12:50 the eyes. 16:10 str, 16:30 ha. 24:10 top. 25:00.
    16. Body Snatchers | 48:36: no subs
    17. Get me out of here | 48:31 no subs
    18. Night People | 48:47 subs, 4:00 Vignette: bank robbery, 19:30 1967jul01 and al capone, 19:30
    19. Project Zero | 48:15 Subs. 2:45 wine tasting vignette.
    20. The Gun-Runners | 48:31 No subs. 3:50 Gold jacket vignette. 5:30 office scene. 32:40 paper cup scene.
  3. Cadfael
    1. S04E02 - The Potters Field: El campo del alfarero | 1:15:30: English with Spanish subs.
  4. Documentaries: grandes maestros de la pintura: a good series
    1. Caravaggio, un genio en fuga.| 35:20 1:00 intro 2:20 birth
    2. Claude Monet - Descubriendo el arte | 41:30 Same guy. He just ran around really, really quickly.
    3. Giotto: Giotto, la raíz de la pintura moderna | 34:21
    4. Manet - Grandes maestros de la pintura, Edouard Manet | 48:57 26:00
    5. Michelangelo: Miguel Angel, el espíritu de la transgresion | 41:8 1:00 intro, 3:00 Florence 4:00 apprenticeship 5:30 1492 and Rome 7:00 pieta 8:00 David 12:00 Julian II 12:30 battle with Leonardo 13:30 Sistine Chapel 17:00 Raphael and school of athens then back to Sistine Chapel 19:00 Moses with devil horns 20:20 Leo X el fratre 22:00 Lorenzo mausoleum, rather a dead thing 24:40 Laurentine library which has no bookshelves nor books 25:30 Pavia and the sack of Rome 26:30 unfinished slaves 28:00 settles in Rome forever and ugly last judgment, but Michelangelo couldn't bring himself to make Jesus look at the people he was damning 30:00 vitoria colonna granddaughter of federigo 31:00 more last judgment eek 32:00 last projects with Paul III 33:30 plaza de campidoglio 34:30 St. Peter architect 36:00 concilio de trento, end of liberal catholicism 37:30 more 'unfinished' sculpture 38:00 death 1564feb18 and burial in firenze 39:40 end credits | 24:40
    6. Monet - Descubriendo el arte, Claude Monet | 41:30
    7. Rafael, el prodigio de la perfección | 42:38 2:14 Urbino, 3:30 church, 20:00
    8. Rembrandt: grandes artistas y genios de la pintura | 50:10 0:50 intro 3:00 early life 6:00 19 years old, own studio 11:00 Baltazar and the writing on the wall 16:00 1631 goes to amsterdam
    9. Vermeer: Grandes Artistas - Johannes Vermeer | 51:19
  5. The Saint (1962--1969) in Spanish. See The Saint: List of Episodes.
    1. Season 2 But some are blocked.
      1. Judith in English. Julie Christie
      2. Los estafadores
      3. Una excelente medicina
    2. Season 3:
      1. The Scorpion
      2. The Crime of the Century Peter Jeffrey as Gregary Marring, Alexandra Bastedo as Joan Vendel (9:30, 10:30)
      3. The Happy Suicide Jane Merrow, William Sylvester, Donald Sutherland.
    3. Season 4:
      1. 4x01 The Chequered Flag | 47:40 subs
    4. Season 5:
      1. 5x06 El monstruo del lago | 48:39 subs
  6. Dictionaries:
    1. Spanish-English Cognates pdf Not really useful.
    2. Spanish Pronto Short lists of words and usage. Useful.
    3. Wiktionary: Spanish: Espanyol: Spanish to Spanish.
    4. WordReference.com: Seems good.
  7. Wikipedia: Spanish language
  8. Spanish lessons:
    1. Jason R. Jolley: Intermediate 33 lessons. Seems good.
      1. Overview of Spanish Prepositions: Challenges and Success Strategies (40:35) 30:00
    2. Rodrigo: Learn Spanish Free Spanish lessons & Spanish Quizzes Beginning. 137 short lessons. Seems slow.
  9. Spanish Civil War:
    1. Wikipedia: Guerra Civil Española
  10. Zorro
    1. EL ZORRO 1974_ALAIN DELON_PELICULA COMPLETA (1:52:52): Zorro (1975 film) in Spanish with subtitles. See imdb: Zorro (1975 film) for raves to good. Alain Delon (1935--), Sir Stanley Baker (1928--1976). 0:00 credits, 2:35 navigacion compania, 5:00 diner, 8:00 fight, 11:40 nuevo aragon = venezuela 30:00 in el pais 33:00 Zorr!, pero el gobernador estieuse mas mayor! 35:00 palacio otra vez 1:40:00 la lucha finale.
        Zorro (1957 TV series) 78 episodes 1957--1959
      1. Season 1, episode 1 subs, but doubled. 0:45 start and it's 1820, 2:00 in ship cabin, 4:50 in town
      2. Temporada 2/Capitulo 01 Bienvenido a Monterrey | 24:14 14:00 Lee van Cleef, 18:20

Postscript: Just to return to unitemized.