Website or app for listening to numbers?

[tessgold]

Hi everybody - I stepped away from my Spanish study for a couple of years and while I was gone a wonderful website disappeared. I'm hoping that someone here will know of something similar.

It was:
http://www.jvlnet.com/~liliana/numbers90.html

Actually there were a few pages, each with different ranges of numbers.

It was a quiz. Once you started it read out numbers to you and you needed to type in the correct response. So you might hear 837 followed by 469 followed by 103, etc.

What was so great about it was that the numbers were not in any order, and they were said rapidly. It was a great way to build up my listening skills. Now it's gone. When you go to the URL all you get is a 404 error. I tried googling liliana but came up empty.

I've also been looking around for iPhone or Android apps that would do something similar, but most of the ones I've found are for young kids, and none of them are really any good.

Does anyone here know of a good resource for listening to numbers?

[Tomisimo]

I was able to find some of the pages on archive.org, but not very many of the wav files (for the actual sounds) worked.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010717054757/http://www.jvlnet.com/~liliana/8190x.html

[tessgold]

Gracias, Davidisimo. So it seems pretty clear that the website is totally gone, which is a shame, because it was extremely helpful.

In the meantime I found an iPhone app called Spanish Numbers sold by Erasmos, Inc. for $1.99 that does a lot of what the defunct website did, but not nearly as well.

I wish someone would develop an app that would throw numbers at you in the same way that someone will encounter them in real life. I have no trouble at all when I'm studying and am asked to translate 105 into Spanish. It's a totally different thing to be listening to someone and they mention that something happened in 1967, or that it costs $5,673,or that the telephone number is 213 686-3822.

It reminds me that a French acquaintance living here in the U.S. has a voicemail message pleading for people for go really, really slowly when they leave a callback number. And his English is excellent. It makes me feel better to know I'm not alone.

[Mozzo]

Record some talk radio and edit the audio isolate only the numbers. There are a lot of them mentioned on the radio... prices, dates, addresses, phone numbers, sports statistics.