Hi, please could anyone recommend any Spanish dvds or children’s books for my DC to practice Spanish listening/reading over the holidays? They are going into year 10. French teacher has recommended le petit Nicolas for French but I don’t know the equivalent for Spanish. Thank you!
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Spanish dvds or children’s books for gcse prep
Walkingplodding · 08/07/2024 09:34
ToplessWordle · 08/07/2024 09:50
My DDs loved watching an Argentinian teen soap called "Go! Vive a tu manera" (Netflix) to prepare for Spanish GCSE. It's about some teens at a performing arts school and their successes and romantic rivalries (a bit like Fame in the 1980s). It's fun to watch (even for me) but very innocent. We had it in the original Spanish, but with English subtitles so that they could understand unfamiliar words. Being Argentinian, the Spanish that they speak does have a few differences in pronunciation and vocabulary, but nothing major.
EditedQuiteAJourney · 08/07/2024 13:07
Beware that, in addition to differences in vocabulary and pronunciation, quite a few of the verbal forms will be different.
ToplessWordle · 08/07/2024 09:50
My DDs loved watching an Argentinian teen soap called "Go! Vive a tu manera" (Netflix) to prepare for Spanish GCSE. It's about some teens at a performing arts school and their successes and romantic rivalries (a bit like Fame in the 1980s). It's fun to watch (even for me) but very innocent. We had it in the original Spanish, but with English subtitles so that they could understand unfamiliar words. Being Argentinian, the Spanish that they speak does have a few differences in pronunciation and vocabulary, but nothing major.
EditedToplessWordle · 09/07/2024 11:13
Thank you - I did not know that! So I guess it's best to stick to programmes from Spain, rather than the Latin American ones.
If I were to watch an English-language programme on Netflix that had been dubbed in Spanish, would that be Castillian Spanish or South American Spanish, do you know?
QuiteAJourney · 08/07/2024 13:07
Beware that, in addition to differences in vocabulary and pronunciation, quite a few of the verbal forms will be different.
ToplessWordle · 08/07/2024 09:50
My DDs loved watching an Argentinian teen soap called "Go! Vive a tu manera" (Netflix) to prepare for Spanish GCSE. It's about some teens at a performing arts school and their successes and romantic rivalries (a bit like Fame in the 1980s). It's fun to watch (even for me) but very innocent. We had it in the original Spanish, but with English subtitles so that they could understand unfamiliar words. Being Argentinian, the Spanish that they speak does have a few differences in pronunciation and vocabulary, but nothing major.
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