Spanish Resources

All about Spain
Very complete guide of Spain: regions of Spain, city guide, photo tour. In English or in Spanish.
http://www.red2000.com/

Beginning Spanish by About.com
Provides an exhaustive and easy-to-learn series of Spanish grammar and vocabulary lessons. This site contains more actual textbook type written explanation than other similar sites. The only disadvantage is that numerous pop-up ads appear.
http://spanish.about.com/cs/forbeginners/a/beg_lessons.htm

Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes
This electronic library offers a great variety of resources with a concentration on Spanish literature. It includes audio files with complete Spanish works that cover all the periods of the Spanish literature, from Medieval Literature until the most recent trends. This is one of the most important online resources on Spanish literature and it is completely free. In Spanish.
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/

Business Spanish
In this website you will find the tools that will teach you how to speak and write business and conversational Spanish by listening and repeating examples and simplified grammar rules. All lessons and each topic contain vocabulary with recorded sound. This is a very useful resource. Grammar, lessons, and vocabulary are very well explained.
http://www.businessspanish.com/Homepage/todaylesson.htm

CNN en Espa�ol
Spanish version of this International news portal
http://www.cnnenespanol.com/

Contacto: Comida Latina
Spanish and Caribbean recipes. In Spanish.
http://www.contactomagazine.com/comidaindex.htm

Diccionario de sinonimos y antonimos
This dictionary offers a very complete list of synonyms and antonyms for Spanish words.
http://www.lenguaje.com/herramientas/tesauro/Default.htm

El Castellano
This website contains the rules of the modern Spanish and explains many of the doubts that native Spanish speakers have about the language. It is written in Spanish.
http://www.elcastellano.org/gramatic.html

Gramatica y Ortograf��a
Gram�tica y Ortograf��a by Juan Manuel Soto Arriv��, University of Indiana. In this page Professor Soto includes his own grammatical materials as well as several links to other useful pages. This site is divided into six sections: reglas, ejercicios, consultas, programas, herramientas y enlaces.
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ecall/lengua.html

HIstoria de Espana
This website provides a summary of the history of Spain organized in chronological order, starting with the Pre-Roman civilizations and ending up with the current Monarchy. In Spanish.
http://www.sispain.org/spanish/history/

Historia de Mexico
This site is chronologically organized, starting with the Maya civilization and covering all the periods until the current days. In Spanish.
http://www.mitareanet.com/histomex2.htm

Kiosco
Kiosco contains links on all the mass media pages published on the net: magazines, newspapers, radio, and television. It covers not only Spain, but also all the Latino American countries.
http://www.kiosco.net/

Las Culturas
History of Iberian Americans in the New World. Resources about the Spanish and Portuguese conquest and eventual nations comprising North, South, and Central America.
http://www.lasculturas.com/lib/libHistory.htm

Latin American and Spanish literature
This compilation created by the University of Kentucky includes several links to resources on Latino American and Spanish literature. It is organized into two sections: general resources and specific authors.
http://tinyurl.com/yzjt67o

Latin American Literature
This is a very complete list of resources on Latin American literature compiled by the University of Texas. The links are organized by country. The website also includes links to newspapers and magazines.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/literature/

Lingolex
A combination of pages that help you learn Spanish. Contains several specialized vocabulary lists, proverbs, the game hangman, etc.
http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm

Lingua Central
An online guide to Spanish grammar with explanations and practice exercises.
http://home.freeuk.net/linguacentral/lcspgrmainmenu.htm

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Latin America
A travel guide. Select a country from the map and find out its most important information, figures, and facts.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/loc-ame.htm

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Spain
A travel guide. Here you will find the most important information, figures, and facts on Spain.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/europe/spain/

M�s arriba: Spanish Language Exercises
M�s arriba: Spanish Language Exercises by Trent University. Más arriba (©2000-03 by Gary Aitken) is a full-color, interactive workbook of introductory Spanish language exercises, based on the pictorial contextualization of basic vocabulary and language points. There is instant feed-back and vocabulary help. It is organized into 12 chapters.
http://www.trentu.ca/spanish/masarriba/

Mundo Latino
Very complete list of links and resources on the Spanish speaking world. In Spanish.
http://www.mundolatino.org/cultura/

Newspapers in Spanish
This website offers a compilation of links on the most important newspapers published in the Spanish speaking countries.
http://www.acu-adsum.org/jlb.periodicos.esp.html

Quia
This website contains activities that have been created by Quia's subscribers and are of varying quality. You will find quizzes, games, crosswords... Quia has not reviewed these, and some activities may contain inaccuracies.
http://www.quia.com/dir/spanish/grammar.html

Real Academia
Diccionario de la Real Academia was developed by the Royal Spanish Academy, the foremost authority on the Spanish language. This updated online version is free and has been expanded considerably and now includes over 200,000 definitions. A Latin American lexicon is provided as well. A must for any Spanish reference library or for serious students of the language.
http://www.rae.es/

South American Radio Stations
Links to radio stations in South America, organized by countries.
http://www.comfm.com/live/radio/?k=7

Spanish 100 by the University of Victoria
Provides a large number of interactive exercises in various formats.
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/span100/

Spanish Grammar by Clark University
This is a clear and well organized website on different areas of the Spanish language: grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and orthography. It is explained in Spanish, but with examples in English and Spanish.
http://www.lclark.edu/~benenati/gramatica.html

Spanish Grammar Exercises
Grammar Exercises by Trinity University. This site provides an exhaustive series of Spanish grammar lessons. The main emphasis of this site is the conjugation and use of verbs.
http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/grammar/

Spanish Grammar exercises
Spanish Grammar exercises by Barbara Kuczun Nelson Grammar exercises with special focus on verbs. It is a very complete resource. Several sections include sound.
http://www.colby.edu/%7Ebknelson/exercises/?yellowirect

Spanish Grammar Help by the University of Texas
Extra help for "tricky" grammar topics (i.e. ser/estar, por/para...) Ann Wildermuth and Rosamaría Granziani have collected in this site a series of useful topics with very clear explanations.
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~annw/gramatica.html

Spanish language & history
This website covers the history of the Spanish language and the origin of the dialects of and their linguistic evolution from Vulgar Latin to the emergence of modern Spanish. In English.
http://www.alsintl.com/languages/spanish.htm

Spanish Steps by the BBC
This is a fun and extremely thorough interactive study of Spanish. Spanish Steps provides pictures and audio clips so you can hear the Spanish being spoken. Since the course was created by the BBC, it stresses Spanish as it is spoken in Spain.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/

Spanish Unlimited
Very complete website that includes not only grammar and vocabulary, but also culture, jokes, recipes, games, and many other sections. It also offers a pen pal service. It is necessary to be a registered member to have access to the page. Registration is free.
http://www.spanishunlimited.com/

Spanish Verb Conjugation Trainer
This is an interactive verb conjugator. All tenses and verb forms are available. You can choose to test yourself on just the 'Yo' form or on all parts of the verb, for both regular and irregular verbs. Each verb in each tense is available in its full conjugation should you need help.
http://www.spaleon.com/

Study Spanish
There are many features to this website, and most of them are free. It is divided into four sections: pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and verb drills. First there is a theoretical explanation, followed by quizzes and tests.
http://www.studyspanish.com/

Super Links to Spanish Websites
List of links and resources for the teaching and learning of Spanish.
http://www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish2.html

The Internet Picture Dictionary: Spanish.
Basic vocabulary list grouped into categories and illustrated with pictures.
http://www.pdictionary.com/spanish/

Tradiciones Latinas
This website covers different traditions and cultural aspects of the Hispanic culture: tales, legends, dances, crafts, folklore, and gastronomy, among others. This page is very complete and highly recommended.
http://www.mitareanet.com/tradlat.htm

WordReference.com
Four multilingual translation dictionaries and one extremely big English dictionary. The Spanish-English dictionary alone has over 160,000 words with more than 230,000 translations.
http://www.wordreference.com/

Zona Latina
Zona Latina contains information on Latin American culture, news, data, and reports in English and Spanish. It offers Web links to broadcast, cable, publishers, advertisers, and media trade publications.
http://www.zonalatina.com/