Comments on: World Environment Day And The Notes in Spanish Forest

By: wells

wells — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:22:58 +0000

Gracias por tu amore para los arboles. Mi abuelo tiene una granja que es maravillosa porque el cuido muy bien. Si cuides bien va a ser lo mismo.

By: Leota Watson

Leota Watson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:00:31 +0000

¿Es su bebé que oigo en el fondo? Suena como una niña. Felicitaciones.

By: Annie

Annie — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:16:05 +0000

Devra, Andrew and Ben,

I agree with you all that it should be normal speed Spanish for advanced learners. Normal Spanish is still too fast for me. I listen over and over until I get it. The intermediate is slower but I want to be able to understand street/social/native speakers who speak at this speed.

Keep it up Marina and Ben

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:02:59 +0000

@AndrewW – I totally agree. This is very much my philosophy… why? Because I learned Spanish here in Spain listening to real Spanish – it really was tough for a while, but I put my rapid progress entirely down to this: to being consonantly challenged by high-level language.

By: carterovicente

carterovicente — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:02:45 +0000

¿Fueron vosotros, Marina y Ben, los responsables de plantar un árbol en la Puerta del Sol? ¡Creo que ha atraído un oso ya para comer su fruto de bronce!

Note to Patspeak – Try hitiing the Pause button to let the buffer fill up before playing, or let the video play through once and then hit the Replay button. If you are wireless get as near the router as possible for a stronger signal. Hope this helps.

By: AndrewW

AndrewW — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:53:05 +0000

What you really need to appreciate is that you constantly need to push your Spanish learning to a higher level and that this is exactly how people will speak. You need to be able to understand. You won’t understand all of it because you’re beginners/intermediates (or even advanced) but you need to try.

Otherwise if you get too accustomed to listening to foreigners speak Spanish or natives speaking slowly, you will be up the creek without a paddle in Spain/South America.

By: Patspeak

Patspeak — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:40:16 +0000

Lovely to hear Marina speak, and the topic interests me greatly, but the video keeps freezing every few words so I’ve had to give up. Is there something I can do to keep the thing going? Please help, as I really want to hear this.

By: Devra

Devra — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:56:50 +0000

Wonderful idea and great to see real advances being made with preserving the environment. Many thanks to Ben and Marina.
I would like to take issue with Dani. Advanced Spanish should indeed mean understanding normal spoken Spanish. In fact, Marina is speaking comparatively slowly. We’ll never advance if we keep hearing Spanish that’s not realistic.

By: Dani

Dani — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:14:39 +0000

A few,

1. Please use a tripods, I got dizzy watching Marina
2. You are filming Marina too close another 50 cm. will give match better results
3. Advanced Spanish does not mean fast Spanish comprehension -
Mas despacio por favor

Same for all Advanced pod casts

Regards from Israel

Dani

By: Jane Piston

Jane Piston — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:57:32 +0000

Gracias, Marina, por este video. Es tan agradable escuchar su hermosa voz de nuevo.