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Old 01-14-2008, 10:52 AM   #11
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A good free resource for many folks is spanish soap operas on Univision or TV azteca or whatever you get locally broadcast or over the satellite. The enunciation is usually very good and they speak fairly slowly. You can tell sort of what is going on from the context of the situation. Many soap opera scenes are of the type that a tourist would experience (ie - meeting people, shopping, going to a bar/restaurant, spending time in jail/court, going to a doctor/hospital, etc).

But you would need at least a basic to intermediate level of understanding spanish before these telenovelas really made any sense I suppose.

I also read spanish news websites/commercial sites and professional publications from time to time to brush up - again, these are more useful to those with at least a basic understanding of spanish.
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