==========Spanish General Links========
• Encarta Resources (Encyclopedia, Dictionary, and World Atlas)
• College Board
• International Baccalaureate Program
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers Literature Online
=========Spanish Dictionaries===========
Word Reference Online Spanish/French Dictionary
I recommend this online dictionary for my students. Remember to read all entries, being careful to choose correctly for a noun, adjective, verb., and so one. Also: a huge feature of this site is found as you scroll down each page and look for special uses of the word entered. This is outstanding!
Bab.la Language Portal
This site (originating from Germany) offers Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionaries. Great additional features include context sentences, idioms, and useful phrases for learning Spanish.
Real Academia Española : Spanish Royal Academy Dictionary
Real Academia Española: Las lenguas cambian de continuo, y lo hacen de modo especial en su componente léxico. Por ello los diccionarios nunca están terminados: son una obra viva que se esfuerza en reflejar la evolución registrando nuevas formas y atendiendo a las mutaciones de significado.
======Spanish Language Learning sites======
Audiria - A Listening-based Learning Site
I really love this site! It offers Spanish learning for non-native speakers...but focusing on authentic texts, both audio and written. There are vocabulary and grammar helps, comprehension quizzes, games,and more. Learn through lessons bsed on news reports, interviews, film trailers, cultural themes, etc.
Ejercicios de español para extranjeros (http://www.ver-taal.com/)
I really love this site! It offers Spanish learning for non-native speakers...but focusing on authentic texts, both audio and written. There are vocabulary and grammar helps, comprehension quizzes, games,and more. Learn through lessons bsed on news reports, interviews, film trailers, cultural themes, etc.
Bowdoin Spanish Grammar Site
An excellent resource for reviewing notes on just about ANY Spanish grammar point, each set of notes followed by an interactive practice quiz with automatic feedback. This is a great site for upper level (Spanish IV.AP, and university)grammar practice.
Colby Web Site for Spanish Proficiency Exercises
I often ask my students to do practice work from this Web site. It is outstanding. There are grammar lessons which can be accessed via the SITE MAP. Also, the special units with songs, poetry, and practice are amazing!
Notes in Spanish Podcasts and more!
I highly recommend this Spanish language learning site for listening comprehension practice. You can choose your level and select Podcasts about various topics. Check the menu at the top of the page to subscribe to phrases and participate in forums.
BBC Spanish Language Learning Site
The BBC offers great audio, video, and written lessons in Spanish. Beginners can even sign up for the Spanish Steps program. Also, there are links from this page to learning other languages.ClassZone
This is the companion site to our Avancemos textbook series. There are grammar video explanations, verb practice, vocabulary practice, quizzes, and Cultura Interactiva to offer great enrichment and extra practice.
Spanish Grammar Notes
This site offers a variety of Spanish language notes, with a huge focus on vocabulary and grammar resources.
This site offers very well-prepared free grammar and vocabulary tutorials, practices, quizzes, audio files, and more! There are lessons for every level, from beginning to advanced. Also, Podcasts and extra features make this site very comprehensive! You can also subscribe or join the site to get extra activities for each category.
A great offering of Podcasts by skill level and topic. There are also helpful grammar and vocabulary links, as well as videos. I recommend that you listen without the text please! This is especially good for listening to a variety of speakers from all over the Spanish-speaking world. You can choose by country to get a variety of pronunciation practice!
Explore this site for various dialects and Spanish language learning tools!
This site offers a variety of updated, fun resources that will entertain you as well as help you practice and build your Spanish language skills. It also offers a great blog feature where you can share comments about songs, TV, learning, art, and general culture with other Spanish students. The "Clozeline" activities are fun for testing your listening comprehension of songs and the Podcasts and videos are really interesting. The Web site author is from Chapel Hill High School, so many of his students participate in the Blog.
How much do you know about the topics listed? Are you a fan of trivia, vocabulary, facts, and general Spanish learning? Try these quizzes and learn!
This site has vocabulary, grammar, and listening activities.
Spanish language news is available through the Worldnews Network.
Another news source available in Spanish for building vocabulary, practicing grammar, and general comprehension skills.
Mucha práctica de escuchar con temas mundiales y noticias. Se puede escuchar y descargar cada fuente auditiva y hay enlaces a fuentes escritas también. les ofrece un tesoro de noticias y temas polémicos mundiales.
This is another page at the United Nations news site, but with written resources...totalmente imprescindibles para los estudiantes de AP.
An amazing array of Spanish news sources from all over the Spanish-speaking world.
Noticias y otros recursos sobresalientes
ABC News from Spain and around the world in Spanish!
This is a site to use regularly for reading and listening to the news in Spanish! I use it for weekly homework for my AP classes.
Watch CNN news in Spanish!
A completely Spanish language news site from Spain. You can search news by category, such as Science, Economy, Sports. You can also listen to audio newscasts and view videos. There are blogs, photos, horoscope...anything you want for practicing your understandibng of authentic Spanish...from Spain!
This is a very good site for understanding news from Spain spoken more carefully for the intermediate learner. There is a weekly Podcast with flashcards and comprehension tools. There are basics that you can access free, but there are also subscription plans.
A telediario or television news site from Spain with audio, videoclips, articles, etc. There are a variety of topics for local and world news. Great site for practice learning castellano while learning about Spain and the world.
Target does great service to the Hispanic community by posting this amazing page for National Hispanic Heritage Month. There is music, famous people, food, history, and much more information from this main page.
This site offers many links to great Spanish resources for every category of learning!
Everything imaginable for Spanish is available from this page!
This site comes from the University of Northern Iowa and offers a huge menu of resources for Spanish! You will be amazed.
Enjoy these videos that offer a variety of learning experiences for the Spanish student...TRULY AWESOME!
Visit this home page to learn more about our Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica.
All AP students should sign in and establish a password to access important information about AP learning and testing!
Sponsored by the Embassy of Spain and the Trade Commission of Miami, this is a great newsletter to which you can subscribe. Here one can learn about recently published books by authors such as Carlos Fuentes, listen to interviews with authors dealing with their books, and hear Hispanic celebrities discuss reading in Spanish in the U.S. It has a variety of texts, both written and oral to connect you to literature and reading in Spanish.
Please use this site to download audio books to your iPod for oral comprehension practice. The authors are many and the literature rich! Why not start with poetry by Pablo Neruda or Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer for shorter Podcasts. Then, you can progress to stories. ¡Diviértete!
This site is amazingly creative. The goal is a variety of methods for practicing and learning French. There is always something new and exciting!
Free online learning site with tons of content and audio.
This site is truly amazing! Choose from the menu on the left to expand your French. You can choose from a variety of lessons. The audio and video lessons are interesting and attractive to the learner. Enjoy!
This interactive site offers videos and listening to support instruction.
This site has been around for a long time and keeps getting better! You can sign up for newsletters and "word of the day" opportunities. There is a ton of practice for everything: all types of grammar and vocabulary, as well as sound files.
I have adapted this text from their Web site description:
The term "podcasts", in this case, refers to audio lessons. These episodes are the core of this French course. If you wish, you can have Apple's iTunes program notify you each time they release a new lesson. You may already have iTunes on your computer. (To learn more about using these lessons with iTunes, see here.) You can listen to their lessons either via your computer's speakers or, alternatively, download and transfer them to your portable mp3 player. Listening on your mp3 player, of course, gives you the opportunity of learning on the move.
2. PDF Lesson Guides
A comprehensive Lesson Guide (in PDF format) accompanies each lesson. The PDF Guides will give you a much clearer understanding of everything you hear in the audio lessons and seeing everything in print will make it easier to take full advantage of all the points dealt with in each lesson.
Right now, there are many lessons available - Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. The site plans to add regular Podcasts and Short Stories for more proficient learners.
Thank you to Madame Deligny for recommending this amazing site for FREE French learning resources including grammar, vocabulary, audio, assessments,culture, songs, etc. TAKE A LOOK AND BOOKMARK for regular use.
This site gives you access to newspapers from all over the world including front page news...Just click on the maps for target language news headlines!
My colleague Deb Blaz has organized a great list of links for access to a variety of texts.
Visit this page to practice listening comprehension and improve your French vocabulary. These topics are arranged by difficulty and by topic.
Learn about cultural perspectives of France through videoclips.
The Defense Language Institute's language website GLOSS is available to the public and offers many great resources, including the transcripts of its audio clips. Access the site, narrow the search to the language and skill that you want to practice. Example: Spanish and Listening. Once you open a particular lesson, you will be able to click on the tab "source" and view the transcribed audio material. This is a great site for many language lessons at the AP and advanced levels.
You can create your own flashcards for any subject area OR search the database for flashcards that you want to access. Take charge of your own learning with this great tool!
I personally know the teachers who teach the AP Spanish institutes here. Students from all around the world come to Centro MundoLengua to study Spanish, which gives it a truly multicultural flavor. There are programs for Pre-AP focus, AP focus, AP Teacher Training, and university classes...In BEAUTIFUL Sevilla and Cádiz. Check it out!
From their official Web site:
At MundoLengua, we’re proud to offer our rigorous and specialized Pre-College High School Spanish Program. The consultants at the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) Program are proud too: they helped us design our High School AP Spanish Language and High School AP Spanish Literature Programs, and they work with us each summer on MundoLengua’s AP Summer Institute for Teachers, right here in Seville, for teachers like you.
In addition to our programs for high schools, we have signed agreements with both Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, and with the University of Cadiz.
So whether you have high school students or university students as your focus, take a look through these pages to see the innovative ways we mold confident Spanish speakers and, maybe even more importantly, international citizens.
You can search by country, educational institution, field of study, etc. This is a very inclusive site for anyone seeking international study!
From their home page:
Study abroad with Educations.com - university and college study abroad educational programmes to suit every international student.
At Educations.com, we are experts at placing international students into their ideal study abroad education. Use the unique Educations.com search engine to find your ideal study abroad programme. Educations are listed by location, education type (diploma, degree, PhD, summer course etc), and category. When you find a course that you wish to study, use the 'order information' form to request more information from the school.
Educations.com supports international students throughout their entire university, college educational experience. Explore the social media forum, talk to other international students, ask questions, read reviews, and learn about education in the country you wish to study by reading our study abroad guides.
Educations.com has a wide variety of different education types including diplomas, bachelors degrees, masters degrees, doctorates and PhD courses, distance learning and summer courses . Good luck with finding your future education abroad!
Mission
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
Promote international and intercultural understanding;
Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.
=========Online Literature==========
• Advanced Placement Program: Spanish Literature
• Ap Literature resources
• Literature online
• Activities for Cajas de cartón
• Online version on Cajas de carton (includes biography of author, entire story, read by Francisco Jiménez and commentary)
• El delantal blanco on-line at
http://www.geocities.com/apspanishlit/vodanovic.html
http://bls.org/languages/ap_Languages/apdownloads/vodanovic.htm
• Vocabulary practice for El delantal blanco
• Biographical information on Sergio Vodanovic
• Dos Palabras:
http://homepage.mac.com/cancio/ea/Allende-Dos_palabras.doc
http://ceci.uprm.edu/~aleman/Dospalabras.html
• Biographical information on Isabel Allende
• Isabel Allende's Biographical information
• Chronology of Isabel Allende
• Página con mucha información sobre la gramática y literatura de la lengua española.
• Pablo Neruda
===========Textbooks Online==========
• Paso a Paso- This site includes activities and assessments.
• Realidades Vocabulary & Grammar Powerpoints
• En Marcha
• Realidades A
• Realidades B
• Realidades 1
• Realidades 2
• Realidades 3
• Abriendo Paso
• "Allez, Viens!" from Holt, Rinehart, Winston.
========WebRings and Lesson Plan Bank=========
• Casa de Joanna: A useful website with a variety of topics. Includes many useful readings.
• Educator's Portal
http://www.nalejandria.com/
• Tennessee Bob's Famous Spanish Links
• Teachers.Net
www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/posts.html
• AskERIC Lesson Plans
http://www.eduref.org/
• Penn State University Resources
• Great source for many things, especially for upper levels and Spanish for Spanish speakers
http://www.desocupadolector.net/
• Improving global communication by making the learning of Spanish fun and engaging Resources - http://spanishisfun.org/
• Vídeos educativos, ejemplos, ejercicios y todo lo necesario para tus tareas escolares.
http://www.escolar.com/
• Heraldo Escolar
http://escolar.heraldo.es/
===========Online Tutorials===========
•Spanish grammar
A variety of grammar concepts with online practice and immediate feedback.
• Quia
Vocabulary games (Match mine/wordsearch /.) on different topics.
• Verb Conjugation Game
A variety of games such as memory and concentration to practice verb conjugations.
• Learn Spanish
An excellent online tutorial.
• Learn playing
• Grammar Exercises
• Resources to learn Spanish
• Understanding Grammar
(great for upper levels and Spanish for Spanish speaker classes)
• Conjugate verbs online
• Centro Virtual Cervantes
• El sitio de la ingeniería del lenguaje
• APEX Learning (Free diagnostic tests)
• AP Spanish Directed Response Practice
• Internet activities
• Virtual Learning
• Página con información para que los estudiantes mejoren su lectura y escritura:
• Las reglas de acentuación
• Reglas de acentuación
=====Welcome to Spanish Class=====
• How to study a foreign language
• Reader's Digest Personal Benefits of Foreign Language Study
• Telling time
School
Clothing
• El Corte Inglés Online shopping, includes sales ads.
www.elcorteingles.es
=========Country Information==========
• Hispanic Online.com Find current events information on a variety of topics.
www.hispaniconline.com
• Are Chicanos the Same as Mexicans? A taxonomy of terms used to refer to Spanish speakers.
www.azteca.net/aztec/chicano.html
Culture and Holidays
• Fiestas y Folklore Cultural information on a variety of topics from Spain.
• Jai-Alai: Where It Came From
• Página Home del Ministerio Information about education, culture and sports.
• Materiales, "Los jóvenes españoles A reading activity which helps students compare the lifestyles and values of Spanish young people with their own.
• Are Chicanos the Same as Mexicans? A taxonomy of terms used to refer to Spanish speakers
Education
• Página Home del Ministerio Information about education, culture and sports.
• Education Information on the education system in Spain.
• Thematic Index
Family
• Archivos de Genealogía española
• Genealogy Family Tree Research
Food
• La Cocina Mexicana Information on a Mexican restaurant.
• Goya Foods Includes information on Goya Foods (new products, news, and history/formation of the company).
• Recetas Favoritas de España Authentic recipes in Spanish.
• Spanish recipes Recipes in Spanish from a variety of countries.
• Colombia en la mesa
• Restaurants in the US
Home
Environment
• The practice of Reducir, reusar, y reciclar. There are other articles linked from this page on environmental themes.
• Links to various websites and some environment activities.
• Greenpeace page in Spanish for children.
http://www.greenpeace.es/
• Environmental children's story
• Municipality of Santiago de Chile, Master Plans for lowering auto pollution
•Matching weather expressions in the imperfect
• Secretaría de ambiente y Desarrollo Sustentable-Argentina http://www.medioambiente.gov.ar/home.htm
• Instituto Nacional del Agua y del Ambiente – INA: www.ina.gov.ar
• Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino - www.suim.gov.ar
• National Geographic en Español - http://www.esmas.com/nationalgeographic/
• Sistema de Información Ambiental - http://www.bolivia-industry.com/sia/
• Foro Ambiental juvenil de las Americas http://www.internatura.uji.es/congreso/foroii.html
• Comisión Nacional del medio ambiente-Chile http://www.conama.cl/
• Contaminacion Luminica
• Ministerio del medio ambiente en Colombia - http://www.minambiente.gov.co/
• Medio Ambiente - waste - http://waste.ideal.es/pescagestion.htm
• Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía- Costa Rica http://www.minae.go.cr/
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad http://www.inbio.ac.cr/es/default.html
• Agencia de Medio Ambiente - http://www.cuba.cu/ciencia/citma/AMA/
• Ministerio del Ambiente Ecuador - http://www.ambiente.gov.ec/
• Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de El Salvador http://www.marn.gob.sv/
• European Environment Agency http://www.eea.eu.int/
• Ministerio del medio ambiente- España http://www.mma.es/
• Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente
• Federal de Protección al Ambiente http://www.profepa.gob.mx/
• Secretaría de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y Pesca http://www.semarnap.gob.mx/
• Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo
http://www.ccad.ws/ecoportal/cyma/nc.htm
• Ministerio de Planificación y Política Económica http://www.mhyt.gob.pa/
• Subsecretaría de Estado de Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente http://www.seam.gov.py/
• Consejo Nacional del Ambiente- Perú http://www.conam.gob.pe/
• Derecho Ambiental- Puerto Rico http://www.lexjuris.com/lexambiente.htm
• Sismo notas: tsunamis Conoce la historia de maremotos en Puerto Rico, los riesgos y como protegerte http://redsismica.uprm.edu/spanish/
• Republica Dominicana
http://www.uc.org.uy/rs140302.htm
• Uruguay Dirección Nacional de Medio Ambiente
http://www.dinama.gub.uy/
• Instituto Antártico Uruguayo
http://www.iau.gub.uy/
• Ministerio del ambiente y de los recursos naturals- Venezuela http://www.marnr.gov.ve/
• Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
http://www.semarnat.gob.mx/
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/
• Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente
http://www.rolac.unep.mx/
• Inicativa De Aire Limpio en Cindades de America Latina
http://www.cleanairnet.org/lac/1471/propertyvalue-14211.html
• Secretaria Federal de Desarrollo Sostenible de IU
http://www.izquierda-unida.es/Actualidad/docu/2002/5junio-medioambiente.htm
• Foro de Investigaciones Marinas - http://tierra.rediris.es/marinet/
Film, Drama, Music and Radio
• Radio stations in Spanish
• Spanish Songs
• Tropicana Estereo (Bogotá, Colombia)
• La Lengua de la Mariposa
• Teaching with movies
Travel
• Iberia Information about flight schedules
• Spanish tourism
• Travlang's Currency Exchange Rates Currency exchange rates.
• World Wide Metric Converter
Use for metric conversions for distance, quantity and volume.
Art
• A thematic, inquiry-based art education resource
http://mati.eas.asu.edu/ChicanArte/
• Vincent van Gogh Gallery http://www.vangoghgallery.com/
Business
• Mapping your future in Spanish - http://mapping-your-future.org/espanol/
Politics and Government
Human and Animal Rights
• La declaración de los derechos de los animales
• Madres de la Plaza de mayo
• Nunca Mas
• Webquest sobre los desaparecidos de Argentina:
• Foreign policy issues: "A Roosevelt", Rubén Darío. Poem and comprehension questions can be found at the page.
• A poem by Teddy Roosevelt
• Human rights: "Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla" and "Muerte de Antoñito el Camborio", Federico García Lorca. Poems and activities can be found at the website.
• La Constitución española
• Ministerio de asuntos exteriores de España con mucha información sobre política exterior y enlaces a ministerios de asuntos exteriores de Iberoamérica.
• Violación de derechos humanos en Cuba.
• Informaciónsobre los niños de la calle.
• Derechos, organismo para proteger los derechos humanos:
• Un artículo sobre los derechos humanos:
• Centro de Documentación e Información sobre Derechos Humanos en América Latina:
• Página con informaciónpara que los estudiantes mejoren su lectura y escritura:
History
• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
• US Immigration Statistics
• Latin American independence leaders
• Activities about Latinos in the U.S. (ideas)
• Statistics on Latinos in the U.S. and an interactive map
• Information on Latinos in the U.S. and links to other great sites
• U.S and Mexico border cities - map
• U.S and Mexico border cities - map
• Migration information - U.S and Mexico
• Una guía para la naturalización: (En español) En la página 61 encontrará las preguntas en español sobre el gobierno de EEUU:
• Migration and Immigration
• US Census Bureau
• US Census Bureau- Teaching Materials
Newspapers, Magazines and Current Events
• (Quepasa.com) nice website for current events in Spanish-speaking countries in English.
http://www.quepasa.com/ A
• Latin America Data Base on-line news service
http://www.ladb.unm.edu/
• Newspapers, Magazines, Radio from around the world http://www.barnews.com/new/index.html
• Semana http://semana.terra.com.co/opencms/opencms/Semana/index.html
Hispanic and Latino Resources
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund - http://www.hsf.net/
• Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives: http://latino.si.edu/latinsitio/explolatino/exploindex.html
• The Radio Journal of News and Culture: http://www.latinousa.org/
• San Diego State University Resources: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/csp/sp/Latino.pdf
• Latin American Youth Center: http://www.layc-dc.org/
• Recommended US Latino Websites Diversity & Ethnic Studies http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/us_latin.htm
• Las Culturas: http://www.lasculturas.com/
• Naciones Unidas Cyberbús: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/spanish/index.asp
