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Contents Language Skills Reading Listening Speaking Writing

Grammar and Vocabulary Grammar Vocabulary

Business Spanish Dictionaries Cultural Institutes Applied Geopraphy Newspapers and Magazines Exams and Tests

LANGUAGE SKILLS Reading Listening Speaking Writing

READING
Lecturas paso a paso http://cvc.cervantes.es/aula/lecturas/ Texts with explanation of vocabulary at three different levels offered by the Instituto Cervantes (Cultural Institute for Learning Spanish). Proyecto Sherezade http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/%7Efernand4/ Cuentos en espaol. Histories and Fairy tales from the whole world. Sometimes you can listen to them in mp3 format. Some of them offer explications on vocabulary and exercises to deepen your knowledge. Silueta Bilingual Magazine http://www.silueta.com/ This homepage is the online representation of the bilingual (English/Spanish) magazine Silueta. The articles are gratis, but are texts without explanation of vocabulary or any exercises.

LISTENING
Spanish Grammar Exercises (section: texts and songs) http://www.colby.edu/%7Ebknelson/exercises/ Authentic songs in Spanish, texts with audio-material, vocabulary explications as well as exercises on grammar and vocabulary.

Better@Listening

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/listening/ Video sequences and listening tasks from BBC. Also available for French, German and Italian.

ECOS

http://www.ecos-online.de A online version of a magazine for Spanish learners (a german editorial). Instructions are given in Spanish.

CINEUROPA

http://www.cineuropa.org/index.aspx?lang=es Para los aficionados del cine europeo. Those who are interested in European cinema will love this homepage which informs you (as well in French, Italian and English) about audio- and video material about the making of, interviews and a lot of information around the movie.

News Sources from Spain

http://www.kidon.com/media-link/spain.shtml A list of Spanish Media: Radio stations, TV channels, newspapers (sometimes live via internet).

Estaciones de Radio

http://www.latinworld.com/radio/index.html Listen to different Spanish speaking radio stations.

SPEAKING
La pgina del idioma espaol http://www.elcastellano.org/ para avanzados: Grammar, la palabra del da, literature, radio, articles about different topics.

Spanish Lessons and Resources

http://www.donquijote.org/spanishlanguage/literature/library/titulop.asp a very diverse homepage. You can test your level, play language games, work on literature and a lot of more

Spanish for beginners

http://spanish.about.com/cs/forbeginners/a/beg_lessons.htm Start now learning Spanish!

WRITING
Planet Chat http://www.redplaneta.com/ Do you want to get in touch and talk with native speakers?

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY Grammar Vocabulary

GRAMMAR
Spanish Grammar Exercises http://www.colby.edu/%7Ebknelson/exercises/ A very complete and useful place to train your grammar knowledge (sometimes with audio material). Spanish is often used as the communication language. studyspanish.com http://www.studyspanish.com/freesite.htm Online grammar, phonetic exercises and vocabulary. Test yourself! Yepes Spanish Practice http://www.bowdoin.edu/%7Eeyepes/newgr/pracgr.htm Interactive tasks about the Spanish grammar. AulaDiez - Espaol Online http://www.auladiez.com/ejercicios/index.html Online learning platform with different exercises on grammar, vocabulary and listening comprehension. (Only for a complete course you have to pay). Ejercicios de gramtica y ortografa (Juan Manuel Soto Arriv) Grammar Lab Drills http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ecall/ejercicios.html Grammar exercises with explications. Mostly in Spanish. http://grammar.spanish.sbc.edu/drills.html Chose your grammar topic, give in your name and fill in the exercises. The correct answers will be shown to you after the session.

Interactive Grammar Exercises

http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/grammar/index.html This homepage offers you a good overview of the Spanish grammar for beginners and intermediates. Start with some interactive tasks!

Web Conjugador

http://turingmachine.org/compjugador/ El subjuntivo presente del verbo querer? Cmo era? You dont know how to conjugate a Spanish verb. Put the infinitive and click on Conjuga. Then you can see different tables with the verb in different tenses.

VOCABULARY
thematic vocabulary exercises http://cvc.cervantes.es/aula/matdid/ Train your vocabulary! Interactive learning tasks for beginners and intermediates: Los alimentos (food), la familia (family), interacciones (typical communication patterns with audio-material), los colores (colors) and Que aproveche! (Enjoy your meal!). La ropa http://160.94.62.75/javascript_class/FINAL/DEFAULT.HTML Funny game and a nice page to learn vocabulary about cloths. Pasatiempos de Rayuela http://cvc.cervantes.es/aula/pasatiempos/ Games to deepen your grammar knowledge and vocabulary on four different levels (inicial, intermedio, avanzado, superior), e.g. crossword puzzle, multiple choice exercises or unravel a mystery! Vamos! Adelante. Vocabulario bsico en Internet http://www.upv.es/%7Eagimeno/castellano/faqs/faqs.html Glossary for Spanish IT (browser = navegador, @ = arroba, dowload = descarga) compiled by Universitat Politcnica de Valncia.

BUSINESS SPANISH
Business Spanish http://www.businessspanish.com/LECCION/grammar.htm Glossary of Business vocabulary

Business Glossary

http://www.andymiles.com/ With more than 8000 entries, it is a specific glossary for Business Spanish

Business Spanish Dictionary

http://www.mixmarketing-online.com/entrada.html Technical terms in Spanish

DICTIONARIES
Diccionario monolinge de la Real Academia Espaola http://www.rae.es/ Un clsico. The prestigious RAE gives you monolingual explications about any doubt you have on a Spanish word. http://www.diccionarios.com/ Translations, conjugations, synonyms as well as ideologic relatedness search are offered.

Diccionarios

For advanced learners

http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/romance.html If you want to know more and work professionally with dictionaries, this is the place where you get an overview about the most important (online) dictionaries. From different dialects to regional varieties of South America and other romanic languages (Catalan, Galician, Ancient Latin, French, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian).

CULTURAL INSTITUTES AND CULTURE

Instituto Cervantes www.cervantes.es/ This is the official page for the Spanish Cultural Institute. Real Academica Espaola www.rae.es Do you have any doubts about Spanish language? You should consult the RAE. Spanish Literature http://users.adelphia.net/~fvila/Spain/home.htm You are interested in Spanish literature, but you have just started to learn Spanish or dont know any Spanish, this place would be interesting for you and gives you an overview about the most important opus of Spanish literates. Literature from Southamerica http://www.ensayistas.org/antologia/ Here you can find literature from Spain and Southamerica by authors or epoch. Cervantes Virtual http://www.cervantesvirtual.com Literature for advanced learners. A very good basis to look up information about authors and opus.

EXAMS AND TESTS

Language Test http://www.geocities.com/athens/thebes/6177/spantest/spantest_intro.htm Test your Spanish Level. Try it! DELE Diplomas de espaol como lengua extranjera http://diplomas.cervantes.es/index.jsp El Instituto Cervantes offers twice per year (may and November) the possibility to certify your Spanish knowledge at three different levels (beginners, intermediate, advanced).

APPLIED GEOGRAPHY
El lbum del nuevo gobierno Casa de S.M. el Rey de Espaa http://www.el-mundo.es/nacional/albumgobierno/ Who is governing in Spain at the moment? Get an idea of it. http://www.casareal.es/ The Royal family (in Spanish and English). Todo sobre Espaa http://www.red2000.com/spain Here you can find nearly everything about Spain (in Spanish, English and German). Museo Nacional del Prado http://museoprado.mcu.es/ Pass one day virtually in the museum el Prado in Madrid.

RedIRIS - Universidad es

http://www.rediris.es/recursos/centros/univ.es.html You interested in doing courses in a Spanish university? Have a look on the different programmes.

www.algoasi.com

http://www.algoasi.com/menun.htm For Gourmets! A lot of recept of spanish cuisine, arranged by platoss and level of difficulty.

World Flamenco

http://www.flamenco.org/ The world of Flamenco! Ol!

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Spain El Mundo http://www.elmundo.es/ El Pas http://www.elpais.es/ La Vanguardia http://www.lavanguardia.es/ ABC http://www.abc.es/ El Peridico http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp La Revista (the Sunday magazine from the Spanish daily El Mundo) http://www.elmundo.es/larevista/ South America

ABC Color http://www.diarioabc.com.py/ Political News from Paraguay. El Amante Cine http://elamante.com.ar/ Monthly film magazine from Argentina. Ambito Financiero http://www.ambito.com/ Financial news from Argentina. Bitniks M.A.G.A.Z.I.N.E. http://www.bitniks.es/ Argentinian Cyberculture and Technology Online Magazine. Caretas http://www.caretas.com.pe/Main.asp A weekly newsmagazine from Peru.

El Comercio http://www.elcomercio-sa.es/ Lima, Peru. Cuadernos de Marcha http://web2mil.com/marcha/ From Uruguay. El Diario http://www.diarioaruba.com/ From Orangestad, Aruba. Diario La Hora http://www.lahora.com.gt/ Afternoon newspaper from Guatemala. Diario Clarin http://www.elsalvador.com/ From Argentina. El Diario de Hoy http://www.elsalvador.com/ From El Salvador. El Diario de Yucatan http://www.yucatan.com.mx/ A Mexican daily with special collection on Mayan culture. El Economista http://www.economista.com.mx/ Economic news from Mexico City. El Espectador http://www.elespectador.com/ from Bogota, Colombia First Page for Argentina http://ukinet.com/ A bilingual Spanish/English news and information site from Argentina. Gaceta http://serpiente.dgsca.unam.mx/gaceta From Mexico.

Gerencia http://www.agg.guate.com/modules.php A business magazine from Guatemala. La Insignia http://www.lainsignia.org/ An independent leftist Latin American newspaper. El Mercurio http://www.elmercurio.cl/ News from Chile. La Nacion http://www.nacion.com/ One of Costa Rica's national newspapers. La Nacion http://www.lanacion.com.ar/ One of Argentina's national newspapers. El Nacional http://www.el-nacional.com/ From Caracas, Venezuela El Norte http://www.elnorte.com/ FromMonterrey, Mexico Novedades http://www.novedades.com.mx/ News from Mexico. La Nueava Provincia http://www.lanueva.com.ar/ Online news from Bahia Blanca City, Argentina. El Nuevo Diario http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/ From Managua, Nicaragua El Nuevo Dia Interactivo http://www.endi.com/ Interactive version of a Puerto Rican newspaper.

El Pais http://www.elpais-cali.com/ From Cali, Colombia La Prensa http://www.prensa.com/ From Panama City. La Prensa http://www.laprensahn.com/ Daily news from Honduras. La Prensa http://www.laprensa.com.ni/ From Nicaragua. Prensa Libre http://www.prensalibre.com/ From Guatemala. Plsar http://pulsar.amarc.org/ Texts of radio news from Ecuador. Pulso http://www.pulsoslp.com.mx/ Mexican daily newspaper La Republica http://www.larepublica.com.pe/ A daily from Lima, Peru. Semana http://semana.terra.com.co/ "A weekly magazine about Colombia." El Siglo http://www.elsiglo.com/ From Panama City Panama El Telegrafo http://www.telegrafo.com.ec/ Ecuador's oldest newspaper, now online.

La Tercera http://www.latercera.cl/ News from Chile. El Tiempo http://eltiempo.terra.cl/ From Colombia. El Tiempo http://www.tiempo.hn/ From Honduras. Ultima Hora http://www.ultimahora.com.py/ Independent Paraguaian Newspaper. El Universal http://www.el-universal.com/ From Caracas, Venezuela EL Universal http://www.el-universal.com.mx/ From Mexico City, Mexico Venezuela Analitica http://www.analitica.com/ A journal of political and economic analysis. http://www.noticiascolombia.com/ http://www.noticiascolombia.com/ News of Columbia.

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