Spanish Club

This club is designed for those who are in the intermediate stage of understanding and speaking Spanish—further along than 1-2-3 and A-B-C, but not fluent. During our club meetings we do a variety of different activities – often reading brief articles or other material in Spanish and then attempting to understand what it means in English. However, this is not the only activity we do. For example, other meetings have included:

• Review of some grammar topics
• Trips that our members have taken to Spanish speaking countries
• Working with a set of English sentences to express them in Spanish
• Review of the rules of Spanish pronunciation and syllable stress
• Listening to a Spanish song and understanding what it means in English

 
Club members take turns leading meetings, choose a subject and present it to the club. However, members do not have to lead meetings to attend and participate in the club meetings.

Resources

For convenience of club members, the following web links are provided for learning or practicing Spanish:

Dictionaries

WordReference dictionary (also includes Collins).  https://www.wordreference.com
SpanishDict is another useful online dictionary.  https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/jugar
SpanishDict also has a nice set of introductory grammar lessons. https://www.spanishdict.com/guide

Articles

Spanish Reader – from a Spanish school in Puebla, MX.  This site provides a new article every month on various topics of history and culture of Mexico.  https://sipuebla.com/spanishreader/index.html
National Geographic en español https://www.ngenespanol.com/#
Readers Digest en español (Selecciones) https://selecciones.com.mx
El Tiempo Latino – a Spanish language Wash DC based weekly newspaper.  Available in paper for free, or online at https://eltiempolatino.com
BBC News Mundo, https://www.bbc.com/mundo
The Thought Co – a series of short interesting articles about the Spanish Language.  It's very accessible. https://www.thoughtco.com/spanish-4133085
CNN en español, https://cnnespanol.cnn.com
Spanish Podcast from Barcelona, Spain. An extensive collection of podcasts for Spanish learners, including a written transcript of each podcast.  http://www.spanishpodcast.org/podcasts/