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Diego Maradona scores a goal, or does he? This old legendary battles can be used to learn spanish..
easy: kids cartoons medium:trivial movies/series, football match, news report, hard:radio(no visual suggestions)
Let say you know a bit of franch and a lot of spanish.
you may chose french movie with spanish subtitles or spanish movie with franch subtitles (and force yourself to read subtitles)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_d%27Or
here can be found good movies in any language
nice sites for subtitles: www.divxsubtitles.net must be registered, www.subscene.com
To learn reading READ, to learn speaking SPEAK, to learn listening LISTEN, to learn writing WRITE
This site is being develop to learn new words (common words in any language and any topic). Click to try!
most common words article: most-common-words.html (beta)
Most common word list should be done by using large text (5000 words or use two or more texts) of your field of interest. (text form wikipedia article, course book, your company field of service, etc) Student should start reading words where the frequecy of unknown words gets high enough that he won't be wasting time reading known words.
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And finally fun: most common language list :-) The last number is population in millions French was the "old" world languge, i found that is most common laguage as secondary language so if you know french.. Besides chinese also japan can be interesting to learn because of their tech advancment =)
The 50 Most Widely Spoken Languages in the World
| Rank, | Countries2 | Population3 |
| language | (in millions) | |
| 1. Chinese, Mandarin | Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, S. Africa, Taiwan, Thailand | 1120 |
| 2. English | Australia, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, India, Ireland, Israel, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, S. Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Tonga, U.K., U.S., Vanuatu, Zimbabwe, many Caribbean states, Zambia. | 480 |
| 3. Spanish | Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, El Salvador, Eq. Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Togo, Tunisia, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. | 332 |
| 4. Arabic | Egypt, Sudan, ALgeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lybia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, UAE, Oman, Iraq, Lebanon | 235 |
| 5. Bengali | Bangladesh, India, Singapore | 189 |
| 6. Hindi | India, Nepal, Singapore, S. Africa, Uganda | 182 |
| 7. Russian | Belarus, China, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, U.S., Uzbekistan | 180 |
| 8. Portuguese | Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, France, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe | 170 |
| 9. Japanese | Japan, Singapore, Taiwan | 125 |
| 10. German | Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland | 98 |
| 11. Chinese, Wu | China | 77.2 |
| 12. Javanese | Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore | 75.5 |
| 13. Korean | China, Japan, N. Korea, S. Korea, Singapore, Thailand | 75 |
| 14. French | Algeria, Andorra, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, France, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Laos, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Monaco, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, Vanuatu, Vietnam | 72 |
| 15. Turkish | Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey, Uzbekistan | 69 |
| 16. Vietnamese | China, Vietnam | 67.7 |
| 17. Telugu | India, Singapore | 66.4 |
| 18. Chinese, Yue(Cantonese) | Brunei, China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam | 66 |
| 19. Marathi | India | 64.8 |
| 20. Tamil | India, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, S. Africa, Sri Lanka | 63.1 |
| 21. Italian | Croatia, Eritrea, France, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland | 59 |
| 22. Urdu | Afghanistan, India, Mauritius, Pakistan, S. Africa, Thailand | 58 |
| 23. Chinese, Min Nan | Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand | 49 |
| 24. Chinese, Jinyu | China | 45 |
| 25. Gujarati | India, Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore, S. Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe | 44 |
| 26. Polish | Czech Rep., Germany, Israel, Poland, Romania, Slovakia | 44 |
| 27. Ukrainian | Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine | 41 |
| 28. Persian | Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Oman, Qatar, Tajikistan, U A Emirates | 37.3 |
| 29. Chinese, Xiang | China | 36 |
| 30. Malayalam | India, Singapore | 34 |
| 31. Chinese, Hakka | Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Singapore, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand | 34 |
| 32. Kannada | India | 33.7 |
| 33. Oriya | India | 31 |
| 34. Panjabi, Western | India, Pakistan | 30 |
| 35. Sunda | Indonesia | 27 |
| 35. Panjabi, Eastern | India, Kenya, Singapore | 26 |
| 36. Romanian | Hungary, Israel, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine | 26 |
| 37. Bhojpuri | India, Mauritius, Nepal | 25 |
| 38. Azerbaijani, South | Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey | 24.4 |
| 40. Maithili | India, Nepal | 24.3 |
| 41. Hausa | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo | 24.2 |
| 43. Burmese | Bangladesh, Myanmar | 22 |
| 44. Serbo-Croatian4 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia | 21 |
| 45. Chinese, Gan | China | 20.6 |
| 46. Awadhi | India, Nepal | 20.5 |
| 47. Thai | Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia | 20 |
| 48. Dutch | Belgium, France, Netherlands, Suriname | 20 |
| 49. Yoruba | Benin, Nigeria | 20 |
| 50. Sindhi | Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Singapore | 19.7 |
| 1. Many of the languages listed are technically dialects, not separate languages. They are listed separately because they differ from each other enough to be mutually unintelligible. | ||
| 2. The countries listed under Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, and Serbo-Croatian do not include those in which less than 1% of the population speaks the language as a first language. | ||
| 3. The population figures refer to first language speakers in all countries and are general estimates. | ||
| 4. Serbo-Croatian is now known variously as Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian, depending on the speaker's ethnic or political affiliation. | ||
