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Improve your Spanish by listening to classic fairy tales and children’s stories in Spanish!

Cody, a mischievous, lovable puppy, serves as the mascot to this free, weekly Spanish language podcast. Each week, Cody and one of his human pals from Spain, Mexico or Argentina presents a well-told tale in Spanish from a professional storyteller who is a native Spanish speaker.

All the podcasts are organized by level and type of story.

Voices en Español is a blog and a podcast and a place to evangelize the Spanish language. You can find tips on learning the language as well as musings on different topics and interviews with fascinating people from all walks of life in the U.S., Latin America, and, of course, Spain.

Note that the podcasts are all free and there are transcripts available for download for a fee.

Destinos is a video instructional series in Spanish for college and high school classrooms and adult learners consisting of 52 half-hour video programs divided into two parts. Destinos teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish. This telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers and introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. Understanding of Spanish and appreciation of many Hispanic cultures increase as students become absorbed in the mysterious and entertaining story. Closed captioning in Spanish can be used as a teaching and literacy resource.

Radio Beta is a web-based radio station aggregator/player. The site allows you to search radio stations by Geography and/or Genre and/or Band and/or Language and/or Tags. Once you find an interesting station, you can play it directly on the site with an embedded player. Every listing includes the country, language, genre, city, the broadcast frequency and a link back to the source of the audio stream. You can also bookmark and add stations to your playlist. As for Spanish language stations, my search found 780 stations.

Sermons from the Iglesia Del Camino are taught in a bilingual format (Spanish/English). They are posted weekly with downloadable transcripts and visual presentation material. So, if you don't mind the religious nature of the material, this could be a useful way to work on your listening comprehension.

Mi Vida Loca is an immersive video mystery set in Spain to help you learn simple Spanish. It consists of 21 video segments with a final test.

Only Yabla language immersion sites give you authentic television, music videos, drama, interviews, travel, and Yabla exclusive shoots from throughout the world. Our unique player technology is designed with language learners in mind: Slow Play, Integrated Dictionaries, Listening Game, Dual Language Subtitles, and more.

This site is composed of amatuer video filmed in several countries, namely Argentina, Ecuador, México, Nicaragua and Spain. What's great about this is someone grabbed a camcorder and hit the streets recording real life conversations as they conduct their day to day business in the streets.

You'll see footage of someone ordering ice cream, talking to cab drivers, buying medicine at a pharmacy, and a whole lot more, this is the real deal. Nothing fake, nothing scripted. They also provide transcripts in both English and Spanish. And the videos are downloadable. [Hat tip to My Spanish Notes]

Lingus.TV is a television channel devoted to teaching and disseminating languages. You will find on the site various situation comedies in Spanish with captions and transcripts to aid your learning. Downloadable too. You can search for a topic, objective or skill you'd like to learn and filter the video results by checking or un-checking the level options (beginner, intermediate or advanced). Learn even more by clicking on the 'Notes' button. You'll find the selected vocabulary, examples, cultural notes, false friends, idioms..., and you'll be able to listen the pronunciation of the selected words by clicking on the play button. [Hat tip to My Spanish Notes]

Spanish Proficiency Exercises is a compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks. The objective of the exercises is to provide students of Spanish with the necessary tools to be able to talk about the same topics in Spanish. In order to do, this Spanish Proficiency Exercises contains five major components. First, there is a simplified video clip. This simplified version is scripted, the native speakers talks slower, and he or she uses simpler words and less slang. Second, there are video clips of native speakers who also perform the proficiency tasks. These clips are not scripted. What the native speakers say is what they really said. Some may talk fast, others talk slow, and some have specific regional dialects.

Third, to help perform the same task, we provide a Spanish/English glossary of vocabulary words that students may need in order to talk about the topic. Fourth, we also provide sample sentences that one may want to use in order to talk about the topic. Finally, we offer a brief, mini-grammar explanation on some grammar principle that is related to the proficiency topic. After reviewing the simplfied vers

This site is all audio and text based, but everything is in Spanish. You will not see or hear one single word of English in any audio or transcripts they produce. This site will definitely separate the men from the boys, so to speak. The topics the audio files cover are many - TV, news, radio, and books just to name a few. If you're ready to test yourself or step up your game, this is the site to do it at. [Annotation by My Spanish Notes]

Fomny TV lets you watch live streams of television channels from various countries. The link provided here leads to the Spain page but you can also select by country or region (currently Argentina and South America are the relevant options). [Hat tip to Spanish Only]

The Medical Spanish Podcast is a multi-level Spanish podcast for the health care professional.

The Spanish Grammar Podcast provides grammar exercises for the intermediate to advanced learner of Spanish.

Check out the Forums to network with other health care professions and learners of Spanish. There I have added a forum topic for each podcast topic. Please leave your comments, questions and suggestions regarding the podcasts there.

Podcast Special Features:
1. Interactive Format: Repeat, translate and answer questions as you listen.
2. Easy to Navigate Format: Section breaks are placed throughout the AAC version podcast for easy rewind and review.
3. Transcripts: Supporting show notes included with each podcast. To view transcript, click the center botton of your iPod 3x while listening to the podcast. Or click the “i” icon to the right of the podcast in iTunes.

Puerta del Sol is the Spanish Audio Magazine for students of Castilian and Latin American Spanish. If you already have a handle on the basics of Spanish and now want to improve or maintain your proficiency, this is the product for you! Puerta del Sol Spanish Audio Magazine will help you take your vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension, and Spanish conversation skills to the next level.

Each edition of Puerta del Sol Spanish Audio Magazine brings the language and culture of Spain to life in a way no other Spanish language course does. Comprising an hour-long audio program (Spanish language CD or cassette), a magazine featuring transcript, vocabulary and notes, and optional Study Guides and Flash Cards; Puerta del Sol Audio Magazine is world-class instruction at a great price!

The audio lesson contains expressions, and sentences that anyone staying at a hotel or guesthouse will find very useful. Not everyone in a hotel will be able to speak English or your own native language to you, and you will often be in situations where knowing a few basic sentences and requests will make your stay much more comfortable. Learn how to check into a hotel in Spanish and to express some basic needs that you will have at any hotel.

This lesson contains basic Spanish phrases such as:
- I have a reservation
- Do you accept travelers' checks?
- When is the checkout time?
- Where is the restaurant?
- Where is the laundromat? (self-service laundry)
and more...

Un podcast en lengua española para todos aquellos que quieran revisar en profundidad todo lo relacionado con el español que han aprendido, que saben y hablan, pero que está pendiente de algunas actualizaciones.

Este podcast se dirige, pues, a aquellos hablantes de español que quieren perfeccionar su español hablado y escrito, a los quieren estructurar mejor sus conocimientos gramaticales del español, a los que necesitan ganar fluidez y agilidad mediante una escucha más exhaustiva y a aquellos que deseen ampliar considerablemente tanto su vocabulario como el uso de expresiones coloquiales.

Para alcanzar estos objetivos, creemos que la escucha de situaciones sugeridas, diálogos, explicaciones y ejemplos, pueden ser la mejor manera de lograrlo.

The award-winning Spanish course aimed at beginners through to intermediate learners providing weekly 20-minute lessons covering the basics of Spanish. This is an ideal course for anyone who wants to go further than learning phrases off by heart, and will allow listeners to develop their confidence in the language.

Editor's Note: this is one of the podcasts I most often recommend to beginner and intermediate students. The series starts off at a very basic level but by the end (80 episodes) offers a much higher level. Also note that although the extra materials are fee-based, all the podcasts themselves are free.

Lights, Camera, Spanish! is a revolutionary, look-listen-and-learn approach to language skills, specially created for you, the movie lover, who wants a crash course in Spanish. The DVD includes a full-length feature film packed with passion, romance, danger . . . and dialogue that’s easy to learn and fun to watch. The workbook features dialog reviews, a Spanish-English mini-dictionary, and written and oral exercises to help you strengthen Spanish skills--while providing a front-row seat to the best Spanish class ever.

Subs.to is a simple subtitle search engine. Plug in the name of the movie or television show—make sure to include the season and episode number!—and the language you'd like to read the subtitles in and Subs.to will return the subtitles in SRT or SUB format.

For most media players all you need to do is place the subtitle file in the same folder as the actual movie file—i.e. movie123.avi and movie123.srt—and the player will use the file without any interaction from you. A quick Google query of "yourmediaplayer subtitles" should clear up any issues you run into. [Lifehacker Annotation]

Learning a foreign language doesn't have to be dry and boring rote memorization. Clever web site Lyrics Training sharpens your skills through music and song lyrics.

Lyrics Training is a really fun approach to helping you pick up a foreign language. Choose a YouTube-hosted music video and select one of three mastery levels; Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert. As the video begins to play, the song's lyrics appear underneath with several words missing. Your job is to fill in the missing words as they're sung.

If you get stumped, the video stops playing until you can come up with the word, but don't take too long because the app keeps track of the time it takes you to fill in the blanks. Click the "Give Up!" button to see the words that elude you.

Lyrics Training sorts videos by fluency level or language. Currently the site only offers videos in six languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Dutch), and it doesn't have a ton of videos for every language, but the number of videos should only grow. However, an optional translation feature powered by Google automatically translates a song's lyrics into one of dozens of different languages while you're busy filling in missing words.

Luis & Joan Rojas of La Casa Rojas are releasing free video Spanish lessons weekdays covering everything, from Spanish phonetics to Spanish grammar and idiomatic expressions. They explain:

“Here’s how it works. Each day, Monday through Friday, we publish a new Spanish class in the format of a 10-minute video. Each class builds on the one of the day before. We ask you to do some stuff on your own and if you follow along with us, by December 31, 2010, you will have made new friends, expanded your knowledge of your world and probably be planning a trip to some great Spanish speaking local, just to show off a little.” [Hat tip to and Annotation by Voices en Español]