Ask a local.

No, not for a language exchange.  Ask a local for a place to post a request for one.  You want a bulletin-board/classifieds type setup run by either the city or a local university.  In particular, look for where local university students (and just people around that age in general) are posting such things as requests for study partners, rooms for rent, couches for sale, jobs, volunteer positions/offers, etc.

Here’s the perfect example, it’s what I used while I was in Zaragoza, Spain for three months in 2015: Anuncios de Juventud / CIPAJ (Centro de Información Juvenil).

Oh, and who’s the chick on the left with the eagle?  That’s Azucena (the name comes from a Spanish term for the Madonna Lily).  She’s one of my language exchange partners that I found through the above site.  The reason she’s holding an eagle is because we were having lunch in a small park in Zaragoza when a “cetrero” (“falconer” or, more specifically since it’s an eagle, “austringer”) employed by the city to scare away pigeons (they poop on everything and spread disease) appeared with his eagle.  She asked to take a picture of it and he offered to let her actually hold it (I took the pictures).  Very cool.

When I first arrived, I was using language exchange sites (the ones you’d normally use to set up an exchange via Skype like iTalki and The Mixxer) and not turning up a whole lot, but I knew there was a ton of demand for native English speakers to help people learn English: English is by far the most popular second language in Spain (and most of the rest of the world for that matter).  It was just an issue of: where to find them?

A bright idea occurred to me after a few days: oh, perhaps I should ask someone.

I did.  It worked.  The above site was their first (and immediate – they knew exactly what I needed) recommendation.  I posted an ad saying I was an American learning Spanish looking for language exchange partners, that it was free (you help me, I’ll help you), and I could meet most times during the day around where I lived.  Three days later I had to contact the above website and ask them to pull the ad because my inbox was swamped with enough offers to last me six months at the rate of an exchange a day.

If you go somewhere that doesn’t have English as its native language, I can guarantee you there will be a ton of people around (unless you’re in a really rural area) who will want to learn English and will therefore be happy to help you learn their native language in exchange for help with their English.  All you have to do is find them, which actually amounts to you having to figure out how to find them, which actually amounts to: you have to figure out where they’re going to be looking for language exchange partners.

This is usually a bulletin board or classified ads run by the city, a local university, or local newspaper.

How do you find it?  Ask a local.

Oh!  And one more thing, since “ask a local” is probably a bit irritating since it’s not very specific: search the language exchange sites like iTalki and The Mixxer for people in your specific location (e.g. Zaragoza, Spain).  Those are people who not only live there but, specifically, are interested in learning another language (probably English).  Even better if they’re around university-age (I just find they’re most likely to know about the sort of thing you’re looking for, especially since it’s frequently intended either for people their age as the above site in Zaragoza is or it’s run by a local university).

Bonus Eagle Video

Definitely post in the comments any sites you find that others can use if they visit that same location.  I’m hoping to make a thorough list for all medium and large cities in the Spanish-speaking world as an appendix for the third edition of my book but that’s not going to be coming out for at least another year or so.  Maybe if we get enough here I’ll make a list out of it as a separate post that I’ll add to as more are found.

I learned to speak conversational Spanish in six months using TV shows, movies, and even comics: I then wrote a book on how you can, too

I have a whole method and a book I wrote about it called The Telenovela Method where I teach you how to learn Spanish from popular media like TV shows, movies, music, books, etc. that you can all find online for free.  It was the #1 new release in the Spanish Language Instruction section on Amazon for nearly a month after it came out and currently has 17 reviews there with a 4.9/5 stars average.  It's available for $7.99-$9.99 for the e-book version depending on who you buy it from (Kindle version on Amazon is now $7.99) and $16.99 for the paperback (occasionally a bit cheaper, again, depending on who you buy it from).

It's currently available in both e-book and paperback from:

• Amazon
• iBooks (the iTunes store)
• Kobo
• Barnes & Noble
• Google Play Store
• Goodreads
• Scribd
• Ciando

Cheers,
Andrew

It should be noted that not all of their videos can be viewed outside Spain, but many of them can.  It seems that, with the exception of news, the more recent a show is the more likely it is to not be available outside Spain.

News

Documentaries

Additionally, they offer a ton of great documentaries, which you can see via the preceding link or by clicking “Documentales” in the menu at the top of their site.  All of the ones I’ve seen so far include a transcript (verbatim of what’s said) on the right hand side of the video screen (note that you can click on a piece of dialogue there and it’ll skip the video to it).  The thing with these is that they’re not all available outside of Spain.  What I think the pattern is here, is that all the more recent stuff (3 months? 6 months? I have no idea, something like that) is restricted to

One I’m watching right now that’s a lot of fun (and available to everyone and has Spanish subtitles) is Los colores del jamón (“The colors of the ham”), which is about jamón in Spain.

Drama

Two that I’m partial to are Isabel and Carlos, Rey Emperador, both historical fictions (I like those because you learn a lot of Spanish history while you’re at it).  Both of these offer Spanish subtitles, though again the same thing I said above about the more recent episodes not being available outside Spain yet seems to apply here as well.

Other

I’m really not into reality shows so I can’t comment on those, but I do know that Masterchef, for one example, is extremely popular in Spain right now.

They have a whole area called Recetas (“recipes”) for you cooks out there.  Note the little menu at the top where it says “Recetas   Programas” – “recetas” are just the recipes (you can have Google Translate help you out by just coping and pasting the URL into Google Translate and it’ll translate the whole page for you, or even better you can use Readlang to learn

I learned to speak conversational Spanish in six months using TV shows, movies, and even comics: I then wrote a book on how you can, too

I have a whole method and a book I wrote about it called The Telenovela Method where I teach you how to learn Spanish from popular media like TV shows, movies, music, books, etc. that you can all find online for free.  It was the #1 new release in the Spanish Language Instruction section on Amazon for nearly a month after it came out and currently has 17 reviews there with a 4.9/5 stars average.  It's available for $7.99-$9.99 for the e-book version depending on who you buy it from (Kindle version on Amazon is now $7.99) and $16.99 for the paperback (occasionally a bit cheaper, again, depending on who you buy it from).

It's currently available in both e-book and paperback from:

• Amazon
• iBooks (the iTunes store)
• Kobo
• Barnes & Noble
• Google Play Store
• Goodreads
• Scribd
• Ciando

Cheers,
Andrew

It’s two-for-one day here on How to Learn Spanish!

We’re going to cover two phrases in one Learn Spanish for Real post, primarily because they both mean the same thing: something is really far away.

For the curious, this is from the Sochi Winter Olympics, a photo made famous by BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg.  One stall, two toilets, great success!

“Estar en el quinto pino”

This phrase originates from the 18th century in Spain when Felipe V ordered the five pine trees be planted along what was then Madrid’s largest and grandest boulevard: el Paseo del Prado (“paseo” means promenade in this context and “prado” means “meadow”, for the curious).  They were spaced very far apart with the first one at the very center of Madrid, at the start of the Paseo del Prado near Atocha, and the fifth one ending up at the very outskirts of the city.

By the 19th century the pines had fully grown to great size and, being on the main boulevard, were frequently used as reference points and meeting places.  Additionally, in this time period public affection or even unchaperoned meetings between young lovers was frowned upon, and so the fifth pine became a popular meeting spot for lovers who wanted to be able to hold and kiss each other away from the disapproving eyes of the public.  If I had to guess, I’d also bet it was popular as a meeting spot for adulterous couples and others who, for various reasons, couldn’t afford to be seen together.

So yes, it was basically a popular necking spot for the kids of 1800’s Madrid (I’m linking to the UD definition for that as it’s an American term, and an old-fashioned one at that, I know some of you won’t be familiar with).

It was known for being a place that was very far away from just about everything else of any interest, and so the expression “estar en el quinto pino” came to simply mean “far away”.  “Estar” means “to be” in the sense of location, “en” means “at” in this case (it can also mean “in”), “quinto” is “fifth”, and “pino” is a pine tree.

Thanks to Secretos de Madrid and Expresiones Españolas para Erasmus en Apuros for their writings on this subject (go there and read those to get a bit more detail and some Spanish practice).

“Donde Cristo perdió la zapatilla”

This one’s a lot tougher to explain.  I really did some digging around to try to find the origin and came up with nearly nothing.  The best I could find was this page saying that it alluded to Christ’s constant treks across the desert of Judea and that if he lost a shoe there at some point then it must have been God knows (literally!) where out in the middle of the desert.

It just means that something is very far away or out in the middle of nowhere, that’s it.  “Donde” means “where”, “Cristo” is Christ, “perdió” is the 3rd person preterite of “perder“, and “zapatilla” is “slipper/shoe”.

There are many variations of this expression, including but not limited to: “donde Cristo perdió la sandalia”, “donde Cristo perdió el mechero”, “donde Cristo perdió la chancla”, and “donde el diablo perdió el poncho”.  An exhaustive list can be found in the following amusing discussion on the WordReference Forums entitled “Qué más perdió Cristo?” (“What else did Christ lose?”).

Well that was fun.  Did you have fun?  I had fun.  Tell me about how much fun you had in the comments (and would like me to write about in the future), also…  If you thought the above was at all useful and you want to learn (or are learning) Spanish, please give me a chance and read what I have to say about my book below!  Thank you so much for checking out my blog and I hope you’ve enjoyed my writing.

I learned to speak conversational Spanish in six months using TV shows, movies, and even comics: I then wrote a book on how you can, too

I have a whole method and a book I wrote about it called The Telenovela Method where I teach you how to learn Spanish from popular media like TV shows, movies, music, books, etc. that you can all find online for free.  It was the #1 new release in the Spanish Language Instruction section on Amazon for nearly a month after it came out and currently has 17 reviews there with a 4.9/5 stars average.  It’s available for $7.99-$9.99 for the e-book version depending on who you buy it from (Kindle version on Amazon is now $7.99) and $16.99 for the paperback (occasionally a bit cheaper, again, depending on who you buy it from).

It’s currently available in both e-book and paperback from:

• Amazon
• iBooks (the iTunes store)
• Kobo
• Barnes & Noble
• Google Play Store
• Goodreads
• Scribd
• Ciando

Cheers,
Andrew

Ok, so I’ve been here two weeks now, I’ve done nearly ten face-to-face language exchanges so far (all with native speakers), I’ve interacted with other natives quite a bit (buying groceries, ordering food, etc.), and I’ve got some insight I want to share in the form of two major problems I’ve noticed:

1. Speed.  This refers to the speed at which people normally talk but it’s not quite so simple as “gosh people sure are talking fast here”.

I know I briefly mentioned this a couple posts ago but I want to expand on it a bit here.

To be able to communicate with people you have to be able to understand them first, and in this context (non-native speaker attempting to communicate with native speaker) I think your ability to understand is actually quite a bit more important than your ability to speak.  Why?  Because they can muddle through and figure out your stumbling, awkward attempts at speaking their language, they can figure out what you’re trying to say, but if you can’t understand them then you’re screwed, that’s it, it’s over, communication has failed.

Now, natives talk at what seems to non-natives a very high rate of speed.  This is where the problem of speed comes in, specifically speed of thought: how fast can you understand spoken Spanish (or whatever the language in question is)?  You may know all the words they’re using, understand the meaning of all the various idioms and phrases and slang involved, but if it takes you longer to do so – to interpret what was just said – than it does for them to move onto the next thing they’re going to say then, again, you’re screwed.  Why?  Because here’s what will happen…

They’ll start to say something (for the sake of example, let’s say it’s a statement that’s ten sentences long) and by the time you’ve figured out Sentence #1, they’ve already said Sentence #2 and #3 which you’ve completely missed – didn’t register at all in your head – because you were entirely occupied figuring out Sentence #1, so now they’re moved onto Sentence #4 – you’ve missed #2 and #3 – where you pick up again, likely somewhere in the middle and not at the beginning unless you were lucky which means you probably won’t get the whole meaning of this sentence either (#4), so now you catch the last half of Sentence #4 and while you’re trying to figure that out they say the next sentence – which you miss completely – and now you hear Sentence #6 which takes you a few seconds to understand in your head and by the time you’ve done that they’re in the middle of Sentence #9 which you catch the last part of before they end with Sentence #10 which you probably won’t get either because you spent at least the first half of it or so figuring out the last part of Sentence #9 that you just heard.

This is the problem.

I shall borrow a very apt illustration from Jeremy Clarkson who was explaining the same problem as it applied to driving a regular car versus the new Ferrari F12 that he felt just overwhelmed you with too much to do:

It’s just like that.  Reading your target language at your own pace, or having a native speak slowly and clearly enough such that you’ve got all the time you need, is like simply hitting one single tennis ball back and forth across the court, whereas (for a non-native speaker still trying to get up to speed in the language) having a native speaker talking to you at full tilt is like being bombarded with dozens of balls all fired at once and being expected to be able to return every single one.

2. Phrasing. Yet again, simply put but not so simple.

What I mean is that each language – and sometimes certain countries or even regions – has its own particular way of putting words together to form information that people want to convey.  They each have their own way of doing this and if you don’t know it, you can’t communicate (or will at least have a very hard time doing so), even if you know and understand every single word that makes up these phrases.

I’ve got so many examples I’ve recently learned here in Spain it’s impossible for me to remember and list them all, but here are just a few:

“¿Me puedes poner [whatever it is you want to order]?”

This is by far the most common way of ordering something at a bar or restaurant, it’s their equivalent of “Could I have…? / I would like… / Can I get…/ etc.”.  It’s a very simple phrase using very common, basic words that any Spanish student with at least a couple of weeks under their belt is likely to know…but…

Almost none of them know that this is how you convey that particular request in that particular context nor would most of them understand what it meant without the context to reference it against.  I didn’t.  I started out saying “Quisiera” or “Me gustaría” and getting weird looks from the natives.  I understand – and have understood for years – what all the components (words, grammar, etc.) that make up that phrase mean, but I didn’t know the phrase itself until I saw it being used by someone else.  It immediately made sense to me (“Me puedes poner” = “Can you put for me”, that is “Can you put this [the product] here in front of me”) but I never in a million years would’ve come up with that on my own if you asked me to tell you how to properly request a beer or coffee at a bar in Spain.

How about another?

“¿Cuando quieres quedar?”

That’s how you ask someone when they’d like to meet (been using it a lot for setting up in-person language exchanges aka intercambios).  Not with “conocer” or maybe “reunir“, like I thought before.  “Quedar” literally means “to stay” or “to remain”, but it’s just how they convey that particular concept.  Why?  I have absolutely no idea.  It may be possible to track down the origins of this but I doubt it.  It’s just the way they say it.

Oh, and an informal meeting is “una quedada” – that’s not even listed in the dictionary when you look up “meeting” but it’s what you’ll use in Spanish the majority of the time you need to say the equivalent to “meeting” in English.  I’ve been told it’s exclusive to Spain.

“No se me dan bien los caballos.”

That’s how you say “I’m not good with horses”.  Let that sink in a moment.  “dan” means “they give” (referring to the horses), so what you’re literally saying is “The horses don’t give me well” (or, if you want it word-for-word, “Not themselves me give well the horses”).  That’s the way you would say that you’re not good with a particular type of people or animal or that you don’t get along well with them.  An English speaker would naturally be inclined to say something like “No estoy bien/bueno con los caballos.”…and that would be completely wrong and either not make any sense at all to a native Spanish speaker or it would convey a meaning that you didn’t want to convey.

The Solution

Is obvious.  It’s simply to teach these things in whatever book or course you’re creating if you’re the teacher.  If you’re the student it’s to make sure you know them before you get in-country.

Actually executing those solutions is a whole other problem altogether.

Lesson learned.  I could prattle on for hours with native speakers via Skype before coming here but I didn’t know how to say these simple things because the context requiring them was never there.  Same thing with what I mentioned before about how I didn’t know how to say “dish-washing detergent” – it never came up in conversation and the popular media (movies, books, TV shows, etc.) I used to learn Spanish sure never mentioned them because they’re not sexy, they’re not entertaining (and that stuff is…entertainment, of course).

I learned to speak conversational Spanish in six months using TV shows, movies, and even comics: I then wrote a book on how you can, too

It’s currently available in both e-book and paperback from:

• Amazon
• iBooks (the iTunes store)
• Kobo
• Barnes & Noble
• Google Play Store
• Goodreads
• Scribd
• Ciando

Cheers,
Andrew

My first in-person language exchange was superb, if you can find a native speaker in your area to work with I can’t recommend it enough.

First face to face language exchange in Spain.

A video posted by Andrew Tracey (@andrewhasacamera) on Sep 8, 2015 at 11:12am PDT

That’s my partner, Azucena, who took me on a tour around my area of Zaragoza for several hours.  We stopped at a couple of different bars for first coffee and then later beer.  I would say we probably spent something like four hours together, I was very lucky not only in that she was kind enough to spend that much time with me and take me around the city but also that she actually had that much time to spend with me.

A couple quick observations that may help you should you decide to do a face-to-face language exchange like this:

• I’m used to setting a specific amount of time to talk in each language before the exchange gets started that way both parties know where they stand and we have an agreed-upon deal, e.g. we’ll do 20 minutes in English and then 20 minutes in Spanish.  This didn’t happen and wasn’t necessary.  It was really interesting, honestly fascinating looking back on it, how this dynamic worked: we just kind of naturally went back and forth, like “ok we’ve been speaking English a while now, we should switch to Spanish for a bit”, and it just worked out in the end.  We ended up doing roughly equal amounts of both.  This is something that I think is highly dependent on the people involved and therefore it may not work out that way for you with whoever you end up doing one of these with, but it’s nice when it does because you don’t have to watch the clock.
• My Spanish improved as the time went on, and I would say the same thing happened to her English.  There’s definitely some sort of “I need to warm up” phenomenon with speaking a second language.  I think the brain definitely gets into a particular “mode” for each language that takes it a while to get into and out of not only because of what I just said but also because I noticed that I had trouble thinking of English that I knew after I’d been speaking Spanish for a while and the same thing happened to her with Spanish after she’d been speaking English for a while.
• You need to note the corrections and new aspects of the language that you learn.  Of course, the less distracting and disruptive the way you do this is, the better.  Writing them on a laptop or notepad is…okay, but not the best method in my opinion.  I recommend you get one of these little digital voice recorders and use that instead – as soon as you hear something new you can hit the record button and speak it into the recorder then immediately go back to the conversation.  Additionally, another benefit is that you can have your partner, a native speaker remember, say the word or phrase into the recorder for you that way you’ve got an audio record of the native speaker saying it.  This would ensure you’re not accidentally introducing any errors (that you’ll later learn as the correct way to say it) by misspeaking or because you misheard them.
• If you have any questions about something specific in the language that you’ve read or heard recently that you can’t sort out on your own with the resources you have (internet, dictionary, etc.), note it down somewhere and bring that with you to the language exchange so you can ask them about it.  I didn’t do this but it’s something I’ve done before with online language exchanges and tutoring sessions and is just generally a good idea.

Ok, that’s all for now, I’ll continue to keep you guys updated and I hope you’re enjoying my posts.  Let me know what you think in the comments (and would like me to write about in the future), also…  If you thought the above was at all useful and you want to learn (or are learning) Spanish, please give me a chance and read what I have to say about my book below!  Thank you so much for checking out my blog and I hope you’ve enjoyed my writing.

I learned to speak conversational Spanish in six months using TV shows, movies, and even comics: I then wrote a book on how you can, too

I have a whole method and a book I wrote about it called The Telenovela Method where I teach you how to learn Spanish from popular media like TV shows, movies, music, books, etc. that you can all find online for free.  It was the #1 new release in the Spanish Language Instruction section on Amazon for nearly a month after it came out and currently has 17 reviews there with a 4.9/5 stars average.  It’s available for $7.99-$9.99 for the e-book version depending on who you buy it from (Kindle version on Amazon is now $7.99) and $16.99 for the paperback (occasionally a bit cheaper, again, depending on who you buy it from).

It’s currently available in both e-book and paperback from:

• Amazon
• iBooks (the iTunes store)
• Kobo
• Barnes & Noble
• Google Play Store
• Goodreads
• Scribd
• Ciando

Cheers,
Andrew

First: The problem isn’t “speaking Spanish” (or not), it’s speaking their Spanish, and fast enough.  I found that I could pick up a Spanish paper (I prefer Heraldo because it’s local) and easily and quickly read through any article and understand 98% of it immediately, no problem.  However, when talking to someone it was maybe 2/3rds intelligible and 1/3rd gibberish – the last 1/3rd isn’t things I don’t know, I know them, I just don’t catch them because they’re too quickly spoken.  I know all (or almost all) the words, grammar, and syntax that they’re using when speaking – if I can get them to slow down and be patient I can understand them – but the thing is that I’m not used to speaking Spanish (all day long, to everyone, every day), I’m used to speaking English.  Consequently, my brain just can’t keep up right now (I suspect I’ll adapt within a couple of weeks), they’re two sentences ahead by the time I’ve figured out what they just said…which means I’ve missed those two sentences because I was too busy figuring out the one before them.

Second: Their Spanish.  What I mean is that there are all these little local terms for various things that you simply would never have reason or occasion to learn unless you were living here.  I discuss this in a video I’m going to put up later but the summary is this: fabric softener, sponges, and toilet paper are not entertaining or interesting subject matter so they’re rarely or never discussed in popular media like TV shows, movies, and music videos (I doubt Shakira’s going to be singing about fabric softener anytime soon unless Downy cuts her a really big check), which means if you’re using those to learn a language (as I recommend, and absolutely yes I still contend they’re an excellent, though not perfect, means of doing so) then you’re probably not going to learn those terms.

Not only is there the issue of mundane daily locution but also the fact that it’s frequently dialectal, that is the specific terminology is specific to that region, e.g. the term for dishwashing detergent might very well be different from Spain to Mexico to Argentina.  When you go to the grocery store and you’re looking for a particular item or trying to determine what exactly a particular item is by what’s written on the label, if you don’t know the necessary terminology you’re going to be in at least a little bit of trouble (though probably not much, granted).  I went to the grocery store here and had no damned clue what half the labels and signs said.

Dishwashing detergent?

I was pretty sure this was what I wanted – dishwashing detergent, like Dawn – given its location in the store and appearance (looks like Dawn) but I wasn’t absolutely certain since it didn’t really say on the label.  It very much appears (and functions) to be precisely that, so I think I guessed right here, but I just wanted to give you an example of what I’m talking about and this is a particularly good one since even knowing the term for “dishwashing detergent” wouldn’t have helped you here since it doesn’t actually say that on the label.  You would actually have to know this specific local brand and what it was, kind of like a bottle of Dawn dishwashing detergent in the U.S. simply being labeled “Dawn” with no other descriptor of what the bottle contained: you’d have to be familiar with that specific brand and understand what it meant in that specific context.

Third: If there’s municipal WiFi available, sign up for it.  It’s by far the cheapest way to have high-speed wireless access on your phone and other devices throughout most of the city (in Zaragoza, for example, coverage isn’t perfect but it’s pretty good, certainly good enough to warrant the 15 euros that got me 1 month’s worth of access).

Fourth: Jetlag sucks, it sucks and it’s worth taking care of and getting out of the way as soon as possible, meaning that you may very well end up having to stay up for 18 or 20 hours straight to get yourself back on schedule because you woke up at 12 or 2 or 3 AM in the morning after having gotten in at 4 PM the previous day and crashed at around 5 PM because you were dead tired and now you need to keep yourself up until 9 or 10 or 12 PM or whatever hour you want to regularly go to sleep at.

Also, an announcement…

I’ve created an Instagram account (andrewhasacamera) to which I’ve already added several photos and videos from Spain and which I’ll be posting new things to regularly, I’ve opened up my Facebook account to the public so you should (let me know of any problems) be able to see everything I post without even needing an account, and I’ll be crossposting most of this stuff to my Twitter account.

I’ve never been big on social media (kinda hated Facebook for privacy reasons) but now I’m really seeing its value when you’re doing things like what I am right now and know that a lot of you will really appreciate having small, regular (daily) bits of information and goodies like pics/videos as opposed to waiting for however long it takes me to write a blog post.  I hope you enjoy it and please let me know if you have any suggestions (e.g. other social media sites you think I should be on).

That’s all I can think of for now, many more posts are inbound (I just have to write them, hah).

I learned to speak conversational Spanish in six months using TV shows, movies, and even comics: I then wrote a book on how you can, too

I have a whole method and a book I wrote about it called The Telenovela Method where I teach you how to learn Spanish from popular media like TV shows, movies, music, books, etc. that you can all find online for free.  It was the #1 new release in the Spanish Language Instruction section on Amazon for nearly a month after it came out and currently has 17 reviews there with a 4.9/5 stars average.  It's available for $7.99-$9.99 for the e-book version depending on who you buy it from (Kindle version on Amazon is now $7.99) and $16.99 for the paperback (occasionally a bit cheaper, again, depending on who you buy it from).

It's currently available in both e-book and paperback from:

• Amazon
• iBooks (the iTunes store)
• Kobo
• Barnes & Noble
• Google Play Store
• Goodreads
• Scribd
• Ciando

Cheers,
Andrew