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BBC Spanish Interactive Mystery Thriller Web Video Course for Total Beginners with Spanish Syllabus and Guide for Teachers+Users

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Summary

BBC Spanish's new interactive mystery video course Mi Vida Loca sets a new standard for the direction that BBC Languages is taking with their free, online language learning materials and resources (courses, lessons, phrase books, etc).

Mi Vida Loca is an online interactive suspense thriller internet tv series (call it a soap opera - or telenovela - if you prefer!) for total beginners that takes users on an adventure from the UK through Spain. Along the journey, Spanish is acquired by the interactive "viewer" in digestible tidbits. The course is adaptable depending on whether you are male or female, since Spanish language has gender.

To add to the instructional quality of the series, BBC Spanish has provided a User Guide for students as well as a handy Teacher Guide and Syllabus for instructors/educators.

All in all, this is a more interesting approach to totally beginner Spanish than many of the other choices out there. And the fact that you feel like you are moving along the whole time by virtue of the way it is filmed and presented can help to keep those short attention spans interested! The Spanish guitar music also helps recreate the setting.

In the prolific words of the BBC: "Real Spanish, real drama."

Watch the Trailer

From BBC Spanish

Brand new Spanish drama. Get hooked. Learn the language. All episodes now live!

Visit BBC Spanish's "Mi Vida Loca" Interactive Mystery Video Course.

Your rating: None Average: 3.5 (21 votes)
Submitted by polyglot on Fri, 2008-10-31 16:31.


BBC Mi Vida Loca

Submitted by Naomi (not verified) on Tue, 2009-01-13 16:07.

Hello
I see that you have some info about the BBC's spanish language tool. I wonder if you would like to show the trailer to run alongside your piece? I have also have photos to accompany the story if you prefer.
Mi Vida Loca trailer available free at;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/trailer.shtml
(Click on ‘share’ for the embed code)

Best
Naomi

Added the BBC trailer

Submitted by polyglot on Mon, 2009-03-09 10:13.

Thanks, Naomi, for your comment. I have embedded the trailer right here in the article - much better!

- polyglot

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