Last one – for now anyway!

A Colombian Old MacDonald called Tío Ramón.

You know the drill – click the picture and it’ll take you to the song!

And thank to 123SpanishTogether for the wonderful songs!

Another subtitled video – for those of you still hanging on to Autumn!

Hojas, hojas, again from 123SpanishTogether, is a lovely simple song about falling leaves and colours.

Click the photo and it’ll take you to the subtitled video.

Like this video clip on counting from 0-9.  Seems to be like the Spanish version of TenTown?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-69eHd3SHSQ

According to wikipedia, Plumíferos “is a 2010 Argentine computer-animated film made by Manos Digitales Animation Studio using Open Source software for all 3D models, animation, lighting and render process, under Linux operating system.”

It’s taken years to get to the screens with parts shown as early as 2005.

Some further bits to share-

great song!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysVtm9xBUOM

And very interesting to see the voice actors in this film.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8EEx-ITZJY

Doesn’t seem to be available on Amazon or iTunes yet though…. 🙁

Thanks to @stevebunce for his Tweet that alerted me to this.

Looks a great film. My boys are definitely interested.

I like this version of the trailer as it has the Spanish sound but also English subtitles.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVpowuI2XhE

But it also exists without the subtitles.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNaz9OJm7kg&NR=1

And I quite like the English version which is completely different.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSYI-3IG284

And the best bit…..

I am loving this site España en 50 gráficos.

Lots of information about Spain presented in graphic form.  Much of it is beyond the ken of my pupils but I know they’d love these sections.

1. Names

Click on a name on the list on the left, and it shows you how many people in each province have that name.  Really interesting for looking at regional differences.  For example, Antonia is popular in the South of Spain but not so much in the North.

2. Así es nuestra selección de fútbol.

A team photo of the World Cup winning football team with information about them.

3. Así ganamos el Mundial

A really interesting graphic showing who passed to whom!  It seems that most people don’t pass to Torres ;o)

Worth exploring, especially if you’re teaching older pupils who need to look at economics and politics!

I’ve just had a go at sub titling one of my favourite Spanish kiddies song – La Vaca Lola.

What do you think?

I used a tool called Universal Subtitles that allows you to subtitle videos in a variety of formats.  Looks rather interesting – and useful!

I can’t seem to make it embed in WordPress so here’s the link!

30 minutes later – I’ve done another one – here’s Juguemos en el bosque.

Here are some short clips of British children’s programmes in Spanish. A familiar context is useful in language learning, and it’s always fun to see what the familiar sounds like in another language!
First of all, here’s Pat, el Cartero.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhRKItHuMEY

And then there’s Noddy!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTFVkKmq3sE

And finally from El jardín de los sueños, Makka Pakka.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU-8ofllhBk

Another magnificent clip from Youtube – this time intended to explain the useage of SER and ESTAR – both meaning ‘to be’ in Spanish.

The rap made me smile – important when you’re feeling all bunged up with cold!

See what you think! (The rap starts at 55 seconds.)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY10_T_ROq4

They’ve made another rap called POR vs PARA – I think this one is better though!