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Gavilan Resources
Web links
| Country specific information: click one of the flags on the left to find links to
lots of pages for a country (pass the mouse over the flags to see the country names).
Or go directly to: |
| LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center:
University of Texas page with links to complete detail about all Latin American countries. |
| Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes:
the biggest collection of Spanish literature online - over 8000 books, audio files, videos, biographies. |
| Centro Virtual Cervantes: this library has
fully annotated versions of all of Cervantes' titles, as well as a collection of graded readings for students of
Spanish. |
| CervantesTV:
the online TV station of the Instituto Cervantes - 24/7 interviews, specials, music, theater - a high quality
presentation of Spanish & Latin American culture, geared towards students of Spanish. |
| Literatura Hispanoamericana:
award-winning collection organized by Francisco Robles Ortega, professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the
Instituto Vilatzara, Spain. Links to author pages, online text selections, audio, etc. |
| Spanish Poetry: 3000 poems from
hundreds of authors, from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Search by author, title, first line, and more. |
| La Santa Biblia: online
Spanish version of the Bible
essential for understanding Latin American culture. |
| BBC Spanish News: BBC Mundo is
a news site in easy-to-understand Spanish - an excellent way to practice reading Spanish. It also includes video and
audio news clips in Spanish. |
| Enciclonet: Spanish online
Encyclopedia. Check out their great "animaciones".
Log in with nick=Gavilan1, clave=student to search this large reference data base, or register in your
own name, access is free, but most content is restricted to paid subscription only ... |
| La Real Academia Española:
The predominant authority on all aspects of classical Spanish, with focus on Spain. Online dictionaries, verb
conjugation, and more. |
| Diccionario del Español Usual en México:
A dictionary of the Spanish Language with focus on common usage in Mexico. Access the full text at
Biblioteca Virtual
Cervantes, or look for specific terms
here |
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Spanish Language Resource Center: This site from Houghton Mifflin features links to a variety of authentic
materials, including cultural, linguistic, and current media. |
| Study Spanish:
A free site with grammar and pronunciation tutorials, vocabulary and verb drills, games, and much more. Great page on
How to type Spanish accents.
Highly recommended - check it out! |
| LanguageLearningLibrary.org:
A free comprehensive guide to learning foreign languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish |
| The Language Realm: A good source for
slang , colloquialisms, proverbs, idioms, plus a list of Medical Spanish terms. |
| Spanish Internet keyboard at
spanish.typeit.org: lets you enter Spanish characters without Alt codes or special keyboard
layouts. Works on any Internet connected computer in the world, so that you can type Spanish characters in any
computer lab, Internet cafe, etc. |
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Spanish Language Resources on the Internet: useful links to Spanish Language
information on the web. |
| Spanish Help: Online
Games and Lessons: here you'll find vocabulary & grammar lessons, exercises, some listening practice, and a
useful self-test to assess your proficiency level; much of it from college or university sources. |
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Latin American & Caribbean Digital Primary Sources: This site provides links to open access digitized
collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean. |
| Newspapers online: Huge listing of
online newspapers - links to more than 5000 newspapers on the web, searchable by country and by publication. |
| Virtual-Spain: Weblinks in Spanish and
English to art, history, literature, music, radio, television, travel, etc... Some commercial ads, but worth a visit. |
| Booksellers - Libreros Reunidos, S.L.:
order books, CDs, etc. direct from Spain; very low prices, reasonable shipping, excellent service - if it
exists, they'll find it!
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Class specific links
| Así Es Textbook website, with
chapter-by-chapter web activities, quizzes, and exercises.
Note: The Multimedia files to accompany the Textbook and the Workbook/Laboratory Manual are available online in
the Gavilan Computer Lab - click the Span1A/B icon in the Spanish Programs folder
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| ¡Arriba!
Textbook website, with chapter-by-chapter web activities, quizzes, and exercises.
Note: The Multimedia files to accompany the Textbook and the Workbook/Activities Manual are available in your
online Lab through the Gavilan Distance Education
system. |
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De Paseo Textbook website, with chapter-by-chapter summaries, web activities and links, and quizzes.
Note: The Multimedia files to accompany the Textbook and the Diario de Actividades are
available online in the Gavilan Computer Lab - click the Span2A/B icon in the Spanish Programs folder
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| Identidades Textbook
website, with chapter-by-chapter summaries, web activities and links, and quizzes.
Note: The Multimedia files to accompany the Textbook and the Workbook/Activities Manual are available in your
online Lab through the Gavilan Distance Education
system. |
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| Nuevos Mundos
Textbook website with chapter-by-chapter links. |
| Diccionarios.com: es un portal de la
empresa Spes Editorial, que publica diccionarios, enciclopedias y otras obras de referencia con las marcas
Larousse, Harrap's y Vox. |
| España hoy: noticias: un periódico
con información extraída de la prensa española, realizado por estudiantes de la Facultad de CC. de la Información de
la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (Ya no actualizado) |
| Espéculo: revista literaria del
Departamento de Filología Española III, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. |
| The Human Languages Page: Buscador
disponible en español, inglés, francés, italiano, etc. Información sobre idiomas, diccionarios, servicios de
traducción, lecciones de idiomas por el Internet, academias de idiomas. |
| Instituto Cervantes: Centro patrocinado por el
gobierno español, ofrece una fuente de información cultural y académica. Provee gratuitamente al público libros,
videos, y otros materiales educacionales. |
| Internet
Resources for Spain and Portugal: from the University of Texas. |
| La página del idioma español: Contiene
literatura del Congreso de la Lengua, ponencias de Cela, García Márquez, Octavio Paz; debates sobre temas de
actualidad y sobre la lengua; una selección de diccionarios digitales; gramática; prensa en español, textos
seleccionados por el Departamento de Español Urgente de EFE, enlaces y más. |
| Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room |
| Online
Dictionaries, Translation Sources, and Language Learning Assistance: Florida International University. |
| Pulso del periodismo: Mecanismos de búsqueda,
referencias, datos para negocios, estadísticas, y múltiples otros enlaces útiles para académicos, periodistas, y
estudiantes. Florida International University. |
| Toda La Prensa: links to newspapers,
magazines, radio and television, with a focus on Spain and Latin America. |
| The Wall Street Journal
Américas: Noticias financieras en español. |
| Virtual-Spain: Directorio de España,
enlaces en español e inglés. |
| Yahoo! En Español: Un buscador (search
engine) muy popular. |
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Address of this page is: http://www.gavilan.edu/spanish/links.html
Last updated on
08/31/16 .
Send questions or comments to Franz Mayrhofer at
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