Audio CDs for Learning ENGLISH

[NiCACHiCA]

I'm wanting to get some audio CDs for my boyfriend to listen to, to help him learn English. He has a book or two, but he needs something so he can hear the words in order to pronounce them. Right now TV is what is teaching him the most. I would help him more, but when we're on the phone, we'd rather talk than have an hour long conversation on the read, read, red topic...or any other similar topic!!
...So any advice on good audio CDs for English as a second language (for a Spanish speaker)? or perhaps to point me to a thread that has already discussed this topic??

[Tomisimo]

If you're in an area with a large number of Hispanics, your local library probably has a whole raft of ESL material.

[CrOtALiTo]

I can recommending you the Leaning's CDs to Ingles sin Barreras, in those Cds are very useful because the actors who teaching you English, they've experience in the thread and there you can hear and repeat the words that are showed there in the TV.

I don't know if in your country the CD's are sold, but I believe that you can find them in internet.

Good luck with the search it.

[poli]

You are his best source of learning pronunciation. If you have conversations in English with him, he will learn.

[CrOtALiTo]

It's truth.

[NiCACHiCA]

Thanks for the responses...any other ideas? Any programs (not too expensive) that are audio? Especially with Spanish actors??

Originally Posted by poli

You are his best source of learning pronunciation. If you have conversations in English with him, he will learn.

Even if he knows zero English right now? Well, I mean he can say a few words here and there, but he can't really go beyond "How are you doing? I'm fine." And I know when I lived in Nicaragua and didn't know anything beyond that introduction in Spanish, my mind would shut off when people just rattled off to me in Spanish. I would try and then it just overwhelmed me, so I would just get the deer in the headlights look...and I don't want him to be overwhelmed or feel frustrated, plus the fact that it's very hard to hear well over the phone (at times I don't understand what he says simply b/c of the phone connection...and it's words I know). I don't want to sound like I'm dismissing your advice, but I just thought maybe some audio CDs that I could load onto an ipod or mp3 player would help (b/c he doesn't have a DVD player or a computer), that he could listen to at night or at work (he drives a truck). And then, when he starts using what he's learned in conversation, I could definitely help if he has trouble with pronunciation!??

[irmamar]

Maybe the following links are useful (I hope I'm not doing spam ):

http://www.listen-to-english.com/

http://www.mansioningles.com/cd_productos.htm

[NiCACHiCA]

Originally Posted by irmamar

Maybe the following links are useful (I hope I'm not doing spam ):

http://www.listen-to-english.com/

http://www.mansioningles.com/cd_productos.htm

Are these sites that helped you in learning English (b/c your English is very good!!) ??

[CrOtALiTo]

I believe that the best way to teaching him, would can be that you speak with him in English, so he can practices with the language and so you also can practice with the Spanish.

Did you have to try it.

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

Are these sites that helped you in learning English (b/c your English is very good!!) ??

Thank you so much for your compliment! . I go to these sites to practice listening, above all. But the English I know is thanks to traditional methods: teacher, books and exercises, a lot of exercises (and a lot of books, too). And that is the best method I know for learning a language.

Maybe you could find a beginners' book and record with your own voice the lessons. Then let him to do the exercises (usually, in language books there is a text and then exercises). It's a possibility less expensive and more interesting

[Chris]

I'm kind of going through the same thing in Spanish. Only I don't have a good source of a Spanish speaking individual as he has in you. I don't know how it sounds in English but listening to Spanish without knowing what they are saying can make 2 words sound like one word that is different. For instance I remember this phrase from a movie Romancing the Stone "El tenedor del diablo" which Micheal Douglas translated into Devils Fork. In my head for many years up until a few days ago Eltenedor was one word. Now I do think watching TV in Spanish is going to help me and in these few days my vocabulary is growing so I'm pulling more and more out of it. With body language and my growing vocabulary I can almost make out what they are talking about. I know I will use my Spanish someday even if it's making small talk. I do not know enough to talk to someone though.

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by Chris

I'm kind of going through the same thing in Spanish. Only I don't have a good source of a Spanish speaking individual as he has in you. I don't know how it sounds in English but listening to Spanish without knowing what they are saying can make 2 words sound like one word that is different. For instance I remember this phrase from a movie Romancing the Stone "El tenedor del diablo" which Micheal Douglas translated into Devils Fork. In my head for many years up until a few days ago Eltenedor was one word. Now I do think watching TV in Spanish is going to help me and in these few days my vocabulary is growing so I'm pulling more and more out of it. With body language and my growing vocabulary I can almost make out what they are talking about. I know I will use my Spanish someday even if it's making small talk. I do not know enough to talk to someone though.

The same happening to me, but with the different that my case is with the English.