Spanish Listening: Cantona, a mexican prehispanic city

In the following video, you will find information about a prehispanic city called Cantona. It is a beautiful place in Puebla, Mexico.

Listen to the description and try to understand it. We hope you enjoy it!!

Feel free to ask any questions.

Leyend: The volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl

Hello all,

This is a beautiful Mexican leyend about true and eternal love among a princess and a warrior. This leyend has been told by generations and nowadays those two volcanoes are natural symbols of our prehispanic culture and history.

I hope you will enjoy it.

Spanish Practice.

If you wish to master the spanish language. Start by practicing!!

In this website you will find plenty of practice in all the skills you need to improve.

Give it a try!!!


https://aprenderespanol.org/vocabulario-ejercicios

LISTENING AND THE TOEFL.

Let's be serious. If you want to do well when taking the TOEFL Test, you need to practice.
So, go for it!.
Remember the following information and practice as much as you can,

• The listening test takes from 40 to 60 minutes.
• You will listen to three types of exercises:
• Two people in a short talk. Then you are required to answer a question or two.
• Two lectures. Then a series of questions about it.
• Two readings or long conversations. Then a series of questions.
• In order to improve your listening skills, listen to the radio from English speaking countries, try  https://tunein.com/radio/United-States-r100436/ to find music of your liking.
• Also listen to English speaking lecturers. you will find plenty of them at https://www.ted.com/talks. I highly recommend this web site.
• Finally, try to increase your vocabulary by adding new words to your vocabulary range. 

Don't worry too much, be relaxed and you will do just fine!!!.

Sing to relax and learn.

Singing is one of the most relaxing activities to do. So enjoy singing while you learn English phonics and pronunciation.

Try these karaoke songs.

TH pronunciation tips

Many of my students are Spanish speakers and many of them have difficulties when pronuncing the " TH "  sound [θ] [ð]

Here you will find some tips that may help you to improve your pronunciation..

Watch the following video and then practice all the words that are given. Good Luck!!!

Why don´t you send me a video practicing the following word list? Then I will see that you are following me up.

TONGUE TWISTERS challenge

Tongue Twisters will help you to improve your pronunciation skills in a very funny way.

Why don´t you try and send me your comments, how was it? 

Listening:

Improve your listening

Listening is an essential part when learning a foreign language because it keeps you motivated specially to understand what people are saying and it will help you to communicate better. 

Here you will find some exercises to practice the listening skills. These are my recommendations:

For beginners.

World of Movies
The Rock Star

For intermediate.
A student credit card
Breakfast recipes

For advanced.
All about coffee