My email recently has brought me these two sites for learning some Spanish free.
Learn Spanish with Comics has a bunch of short comics on the pages, with the text in Spanish. You can click on the speech bubble to see the translation into English.
The page you come to from that link just has one example. Clicking on “Click to view” is necessary to see all the pages. Looks like fun.
If you read and write good enough Spanish, the webmaster wants volunteers to help with the project.
I didn’t check out the email course.
The other site is called Verbling and seems to be just for English and Spanish speakers so far, with plans to add more languages later. It’s a language exchange (“intercambio” in Spanish) site, using live video. Evidently they have more native Spanish-speakers than native English-speakers signed up so far, so it’s a good time to try it.
You sign up and get paired up with a native Spanish speaker. The two of you speak one language for five minutes and then the other, and then you go to someone else.
Most of the people shown look waaay younger than me, which could be fun too. I admit I haven’t tried it. If you do, please come back and post a comment about your experiences!
