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Spanish Resources for Faculty
Textbook Sites
Background
- Instituto Cervantes exists
to promote the Spanish language; their website includes plenty
of material for students and teachers of Spanish, plus up-to-date
information about cultural events.
- Yahoo en español
- Spanish-language version of the famous web directory, or try
Yahoo España or Yahoo
México for a more country-specific view.
- El Mundo Latino is
a good leaping off point into the Spanish-speaking Web.
News & media on-line
- El Pais is one of Spain's
most popular newspapers.
- El Mundo is another, which
also has La Revista
on-line, its Sunday supplement with a good range of full-text
articles.
- El Periódico
- Catalunyan daily paper (in Castillian).
- ABC Electrónico - right-wing
daily news from Spain.
- La Jornada - daily
news from Mexico.
- Clarín - Argentinian
newspaper.
- El Mercurio from Chile.
- Televicentro have
daily news summaries online from Puerto Rico.
- Prensalatina.com
is a comprehensive list of Spanish-language online media, an offshoot
of Mundo Latino.
- TVE
Internacional television schedules - as seen in the Sussex
Language Institute. EuroTV
carry more concise schedules.
- BBC Línea Directa
is the website of the BBC Latin American service - lots of features
to read and hear in RealAudio, plus a live feed.
Teaching resources
- Tecla
is a magazine (including exercises) written for learners and teachers
of Spanish, with a searchable subject index of past issues. It
is produced weekly during term-time by the Consejería
de Educación, Embajada de España.
- Ejercicios
de lengua española - a collection of on-line grammar
exercises from Juan Ramón de Arana. Juan Manuel Soto Arriví
has produced some
more exercises for printing out, to complement his pages on
gramática
y ortografía española.
- comunicativo.net
- free resources for teachers of Spanish. Communication activities,
lesson plans, self correcting grammar exercises, worksheets, chat
and so on.
- Comp-jugador
performs on-line conjugations of about 10,000 Spanish verbs.
- Learn Spanish - a
free online tutorial.
- Web Spanish Lessons
- three lessons, including (Mexican) audio, from Tyler Chambers
who has also made available a small English/Spanish dictionary
as part of the Internet Dictionary
Project.
- Palabra Para Ti - a word
a day by e-mail.
- Spanish
Food Dictionary
- MundoHispano
is a MOO for learners of Spanish - it's a multi-user interactive
system, a virtual environment where students can practice their
Spanish while sharing ideas and experiences with other Spanish
speakers and learners. Click
here to take the plunge (beware - your Spanish will need to
be at least intermediate level!).
Literature
- Proyecto
Sherezade has contemporary short stories in Spanish by authors
from all over the world, plus vocabulary and grammar exercises,
comprehension questions etc.
- Literatura Argentina Contemporánea
- extensive details and excerpts of many Argentinian authors.
Sources for further research...
- Recursos
- a guide to resources for Spanish studies from the University
of Brighton Language Centre.
- About.com Guide to Spanish
Language - original articles, lessons, exercises and lots
of links, plus bulletin board and chat room.
- Sí, Spain
- a fine resource from the Spanish Embassy in Ottowa, Canada,
covering Spain's current affairs, its historical, linguistic and
cultural development.
- Latin American Network
Information Center (LANIC) at the University of Texas is a
comprehensive directory of Latin American web resources organised
by country and by subject.
- Página
de la Lengua Española provides links to a multitude
of sites concerned with the Spanish language.
- Spanish Language and
Spanish Culture
from the About.com, an American guide site.
- Santa
Barbara City College Spanish Department have a country-by-country
guide to Spanish-speaking resources on the Internet.
- Universia.net has lots
of well-presented information on Hispanic higher education.
Other Resources
- Yahoo - Spain
- La página del
idioma español
- Centro Virtual
Cervantes
- Online
Spanish Help
- ASTURNET. Pagina Principal
- A tour through Spain
- Bienvenido a las
Páginas Amarillas Multimedia
- Buscar
en español
- CADENA COPE WEB
- Documento de bienvenida del BOE
- Dónde?: Directorio online
de España
- EL PAIS DIGITAL
- El Periodico on line
- España
al desnudo
- Fallas de Valencia
1996 - Home Page
- Información del Instituto
Cervantes
- La
Jornada en Internet
- La página
española de The Beatles
- Noticias
de Mexico y el Mundo
- Other
Web Sites in or about Spain
- Universidad de Oviedo
- Spanish Education Office
- RTVE
- Si,
Spain
- Tecla in
Spanish
- Tuspain.com,
Nerja, Travel Spain, Andalucia, Granada, Tourism, Living, Property
- Business
news from the Wall St. Journal in Spanish
- Spanish-online
- Go Madrid
- Spain & Portugal
search directory
- Spanish
Food Dictionary
- Nestlé
- Turismo
Spanish Learning Resources
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