This is great, Thomas! This is a site that has come up before and is very helpful at the lower levels. It also has non-ACTFL leveling, but the tasks are invaluable. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/ N On Jan 12, 2014, at 5:03 PM, Thomas Hinkle <thinkle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, it feels incredible that I haven't found this resource before, but it > occurred to me that some of you might also be eternally looking for good > sources of recorded speech with native speakers broken down by level, so I > thought I'd share: http://www.audio-lingua.eu/ > > The site has a wide range of accents and levels in a variety of languages. > > The levels are expressed using CEFR, a European system I'd never heard of, > but wikipedia came to the rescue with translations (although apparently > there's a fair bit of disagreement on how to translate between the CEFR > levels and the ACTFL ones): > CEFR ILR ACTFL > A1 0/0+ NL, NM, NH > A2 1 IL, IM > B1 1+ IH > B2 2/2+ AL, AM, AH > C1 3/3+ S > C2 4/4+ D > Here are some quick links to give you an idea of what's available in Spanish: > A1 > A2 > B1 > B2 > C1 > > Tom > > > -- > Thomas Hinkle > English & Spanish Department Coordinator > Innovation Academy Charter School >