Cool Way to Learn Spanish

I've wanted to share this for a while, but kept putting it off until, well, now. Anyways, something I've been doing since I got back to improve my Spanish comprehension is reading Democracy Now! headlines... in Spanish!

The independent news organization, Democracy Now!, already has probably the most compelling collection of summary headlines posted on their site each weekday. They piece through the garbage that normally gets reported as "news" and highlight the most important items of the day. Well, they also happen to have a direct translation of these headlines into Spanish each day. This makes it a superb tool for language learners who want new real-world content each day to study and practice on. Not only that, but Democracy Now! also provides a Spanish podcast so you can hear it and read along.

One last tool I've discovered is this web reader from WordChamp that facilitates the easy translation of words from Spanish to English (and back) with a simple mouse over. It'll even give you nice audio sample with a click of a button on a speaker icon next to most words. Talk about convenient. Best of all, this is all free.

This has all been very useful to me. I hope it might be of help to someone else out there.