Having looked at the BBC´s Spanish-learning site, it seems like a good complement to a beginning to intermediate language class. The questions in the "rate your Spanish" quiz are very basic, probably only useful to a beginning student. The cartoon soap opera also uses very basic language, but is entertaining. I would recomend the site to students who want to maintain their language ability during vacations or if they can no longer take a Spanish class, as the site will help them to maintain their interest in the language also. Intermediate students would do better to pick up a book of short stories or some other piece of literature, as if they only rely on the BBC site they may come away with an inflated sense of their own language ability. Intermediate students can also listen to or read the news in Spanish, which can help their listening ability and comprehension. Actually, if any of my English-speaking classmates here in Chile were to ask, I would recommend this listening option to them as we have found, since we´ve been in Chile, that we have much more difficulty understanding spoken Chilean Spanish than speaking Spanish, on account of the accent and word usage here, and the fact that much of our education in Spanish has been written rather than spoken.

Saludos, I am a university student from southern california temporarily transplanted in the southern cone and starting as a teaching assistant for an english course at the University of Chile. As a student of languages--Russian and Spanish--this should be an interesting look at language instruction from the inside out, with my mother tongue as the test subject. I´ve been in South America about six weeks, so the urge to write in Spanglish is overwhelming.