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I just found a cool new learning resource for Spanish-- its called "Lights, Camera, Spanish".  This is a book and DVD movie for Spanish learners. 

I was happily surprised by the movie.  The story is good, the photography is very nice, and the acting is good too.   So, its very easy to watch the story.   Of course, the movie uses fairly simple Spanish, so I could understand the basic ideas fairly easily.  However, there's plenty of new vocabulary and phrases in the movie too--  so I'll be watching it many times. 

Tonight I watched the whole movie (the movie's name is Sol & Viento) .  Next, Ill watch one or two scenes at a time and use the books vocabulary list to learn words & phrases I don't understand.   Then I'll practice copying the phrases and pronunciation of the actors.  I'll work my way slowly through the movie in this way. 

As for the accompanying book-- its not so useful.  The glossary is the most useful part.  But it also has "chapters" with fairly typical textbook type exercises that I will ignore.  It would have been more useful if they'd provided a script in the book, with a side by side word list...  and perhaps phrase and short grammar explanations as footnotes.  But I won't complain-- this is a nice, interesting, high quality, fun Spanish learning resource.