My Favorite Links for Students
of Spanish and Spanish Linguistics
All of these links are FREE and live at the time of this
posting.
If you encounter any links that are not working or that are now
charging for their use, please email
me the link and I will update my page.
Spanish Linguistics
Spanish Language & Literature Resources
Web activities I designed for
my SPAN 0001 students:
Various self-correcting online activities I created for my students to
review
for our departmental comprehensive final exam.
Although this page is often down, if you're lucky you can listen to the poetry of Pablo Neruda from 20 poemas de amor y una canción desesperada and Versos del capitan, all read by the author himself:
http://www.uchile.cl/neruda/obra/obra3.htmListen to the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges read by the author himself:
http://www.clarin.com/diario/especiales/Borges/html/Ram.html
http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_audio.html
A plethora of resources and information about Miguel de Cervantes, his life and his works. Includes full text versions, as well as full audio readings of his works read in Spanish:
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/Cervantes/Links to hundreds of online newspapers in the Spanish-speaking world. Listed by country, then city:
http://www.prensaescrita.com/
Links to over 100 Spanish tongue twisters (and their meanings). Other languages also available:
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/es.htm
Online tutorial and games to learn and practice the geography of Latin America:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/country_SoAmCA_GL_Click.html
Video, audio and articulatory diagrams of the sounds of Spanish:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html
IPA chart with embedded sounds:
http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/
Digital magazine managed by the non-profit organization la Asociación Cultural Antonio de Nebrija. Convenient links to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española (among others), history of the Spanish language, grammar and other current issues in the Spanish language:
http://www.elcastellano.org/index.htmlComputational linguistics web site dedicated to the Spanish language. Features a verb flexionizer/conjugator (12790 of the most commonly used verbs in Spanish), morphologic tagger/analyzer, and morphological relationship analyzer:
http://www.gedlc.ulpgc.es/Part of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, this feature allows for advanced online searching of words, and words in context, within the literary texts available at the site:
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/herramientas/A web portal devoted to sign language in Spanish. Includes videos of poetry and children's stories, linguistic studies, cultural information and other points of interest of sign language in Spanish:
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/signos/index.shtml