World Languages: Learn Spanish!
Learn Spanish @ GPL
Need help improving your Spanish?
GPL offers a variety of ways for you to develop your language skills.
Spanish/English Conversation Group ~ Wednesdays at 2:00pm
(Check the GPL calendar for specific dates.)
Join others learning Spanish, and native Spanish speakers learning English, in a fun and relaxed setting. There's no pressure--we want you to make mistakes so you'll learn and improve! Small groups spend ten minutes in English and ten minutes in Spanish, then you change groups to hear different accents and meet new people. You'll be in three 20 minute groups (one hour), and then afterwards Diana leads a group lesson (half hour) to review all the new words and expressions that come up in the conversations. Bring a notebook and your enthusiasm; Diana will email you the new Vocab Lists. We'll also supply cookies, tea and coffee! We're here almost every week, but check the GPL Events Calendar and/or our flyers to be sure we're meeting. No registration is needed.
News in Slow Spanish
- News in SLOW Spanish
A weekly Spanish podcast
for language learners! This program offers podcasts in Spanish from Latin America or Spain, at Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels. News in Slow Spanish features native speakers discussing current events and culture. News stories you care about at a pace you can understand.
Five Best Podcasts for Learning Spanish
- Five Best Podcast for Learning Spanish
Foreign language podcasts can be a great supplement to your language learning. Check out our list of the 5 best Spanish language pods!
BY DYLAN LYONS, SEPT 27, 2017
Learn with an E-book
- Cloud Library -- Spanish
This eBook collection from the Greenburgh Public Library is the easiest way to borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks from the library: simply download the app for your device, then start browsing and borrowing language learning books.
Online Practice
Free Spanish audio and video brings you authentic, real Spanish conversations about real-life topics, making you totally confident with your Spanish. Listen on your iPod, mp3 player or phone as Spanish podcasts.
Spanish Slang with Antonio Banderas
“I don’t care a pepper”: Antonio Banderas offers crash course in Spanish slang
‘Vanity Fair’ asked the actor to translate odd expressions used in Spain. This is what he came up with – and more importantly, what they mean!
Library materials to help you learn Spanish
HarperCollins Spanish College Dictionary by Call Number: 463.21 CISBN: 9780060082413Publication Date: 2002-04-30
Spanish English Bilingual Visual Dictionary by Call Number: SPA 463.21 BISBN: 9781465459312Publication Date: 2017-04-18
Spanish for Attorneys and Paralegals by Call Number: 468.342 HISBN: 9780764142369Publication Date: 2009-10-01
Quick Spanish for Emergency Responders by Call Number: 468.3 DISBN: 9780071460194Publication Date: 2005-10-01
501 Essential Spanish Verbs by Call Number: 468.242 L.....Also available to download on HOOPLA!ISBN: 9780486476179Publication Date: 2010-11-18
Travel to Spain and Latin America
Globe trekker. Buenos Aires by Call Number: Travel DVD 982 GPublication Date: 2012Discover one of South America's most exciting and vibrant cities as Globe Trekker host Judith Jones takes viewers to the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires Insolita y Secreta by Call Number: SPA 918.211 SISBN: 9782361950996Publication Date: 2016-08-07A Buenos Aires Guidebook in Spanish.
En Colombia: El Biblioburro
- The Amazing Donkey Libraries of Colombia
Luis Soriano was a Spanish teacher in rural La Gloria Colombia. Concerned that his students had no access to books at home, he decided to do something about it. By adapting the packsaddles of his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, from carrying water to carrying books, Luis created a makeshift mobile library and set off to take his books to children who otherwise wouldn’t have access to reading materials. With that the ‘Biblioburro’ was born.
