Exercises to improve your listening comprehension in Spanish

An exercise that is useful for improving listening comprehension in Spanish is to listen to an audio book or podcast whilst noting done the vocabulary and expressions used.

A good place to start is content that they are already familiar with but that has been translated, for example Roald Dahl books for beginners or the Harry Potter series for intermediates.

As your confidence builds at listening comprehension you can begin to engage with content that you are less familiar with and research in your native language. You will then be able to cross reference and check whether your understanding was correct.

For more proficient learners you can move to entirely novel content and then perform the research in Spanish! It is a great suplement to your Spanish course with Academia Contacto!