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Library 5800 Fulton Ave. Valley Glen, California, 91401-4096 Phone: 818-947-2425 Fax: 818-947-2751 |
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Spanish Pronto!: Arabic Words in Spanish - http://www.spanishpronto.com/spanishpronto/arabicglossary.html
100 of the Arabic words still in common use in Spanish today.
Patrimonio lingüístico de orígen árabe en el idioma español - http://www.verdeislam.com/vi_03/VI_307.htm#02
Approximately 1400 Spanish words derived from Arabic, without definitions. The introduction is written in Spanish.
A small collection of sites to assist in the addition of diacritics, or accent and other marks, to the English keyboard.
How To...Type Accents in Windows9x - http://www.creighton.edu/langlab/howto/accentsWin9/accentsWin9.htm
Instructions with graphic aids to convert the keyboard to writing diacritics.
International Accents and Diacriticals: Theory, Charts, & Tips for the QWERTY keyboard (mostly Windows) - http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html
A variety of methods to add diacritics to keyboards.
PC or Mac?
- http://depts.washington.edu/spnrectr/pc_or_mac.htm
Keystrokes for Spanish characters for PC or Macintosh.
Roman Alphabet Diacritics and Characters - http://www.colby.edu/lrc/help/diacritics.html
Instructions on how to use the Querty method for Windows 95 users. There are links to convert the keyboard for Windows 98 and 2000 users.
Those Squiggly Little Marks - http://desktoppub.about.com/library/weekly/aa062199.htm?terms=accent
Create six common accent or diacritical marks: acute, cedilla, circumflex, grave, tilde, and umlaut. Included is a chart for creating these marks for Windows, Macs, and HTML.
WordReference.com - http://wordreference.com
Good bilingual college dictionary. Offers links to the Royal Spanish Academy's dictionary for definitions in Spanish. Published by Harper Collins.
Royal Spanish Academy/ Real Academia Español -- http://www.rae.es/
The official body for Spanish usage, only in Spanish.
Center for Spanish Studies - http://depts.washington.edu/spnrectr/
A collection of links and resources for instructors of Spanish. From the Division of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Washington, the Spanish Language Center, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state of Washington, and the Education Office of the Spanish Embassy.
Consejería de Educación en Estados Unidos y Canadá - http://www.sgci.mec.es/usa/enlaces/
A collection of links for learning and teaching Spanish, written for both students and instructors. From the Spanish Embassy. Written in Spanish.
E.L. Easton - Spanish - http://eleaston.com/spanish.html
A collection of links for both instructors and students. Arranged by tests and quizzes, courses, grammar, and more. Additionally, there is a collection of links arranged by cultural topics.
Latin American Network Information Center - http://lanic.utexas.edu/
A collection of sources relating to Latin America for a wide range of information, including education, media, economics, libraries, and cultural resources. Arranged by subject, country, and regionally. Searchable. Some of the sites are in English or English and Spanish, but some are only in Spanish. . From the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas.
Pagina
de la lengua español - http://www.dat.etsit.upm.es/~mmonjas/espannol.html
A large collection of briefly annotated links of institutions, dictionaries, literature, style manuals, grammar, software programs, and much more. Written in Spanish. The links are also for those written in Spanish.
Spanish - http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html
A collection of links for teaching, learning, culture, history, the arts, and more. From Henderson State University, Arkansas.
Spanish Language and Hispanic Culture Pages - http://globegate.utm.edu/spanish/
A collection of links for art and culture, general, Hispanic history, and music. From the Foreign Languages Department of the University of Tennessee at Martin.
Portal
para profesores de español lengua extranjera
A collection of links for instructors of Spanish as a foreign language divided into sites of interest, resources, literature, poetry, exercises, and more. There is also a section of links for French. Written only in Spanish.
Yamada Language Guides - http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html
Spanish News, Usenet Groups- http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/news.html
Directory of language resources on the Web listed by name of language. Annotated links cover organizations, curriculum materials, cultural references, and more. Currently covers more than 100 languages. There is also a Font Archive with over 100 fonts covering 40 languages (read the Font Help Pages first), as well as links to other font collections. Additionally, there are indexes of language-related mailing lists and newsgroups. From the University of Oregon.
Exercises and quizzes
Educole Ejercicios Plus - http://www.eduole.com/eplus/
A collection of exercises for beginners. Complements Eduole’s publications.
Ejercicios de Gramática - http://www.indiana.edu/~call/ejercicios.html
Exercises written for the Spanish student. From a professor at Indiana University.
Ejercicios de Gramática - http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/
Written for second year students of Spanish. From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Goethe Multilingual Exercises - http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/ES/ES.HTM
A large collection of vocabulary quizzes. Solutions are provided.
Más arriba: Spanish Language Exercises - http://www.trentu.ca/spanish/masarriba/
Online exercises to accompany a workbook from Prentice Hall. From a professor of the Hispanic Studies at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Spanish Language Exercises - http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/self-check.html
Nice collection of self-check exercises written for students. Some have audio associated with them. There are also some for instructors. Written by Juan Ramón de Arana, a Spanish professor at Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA.
Spanish Pronto - http://www.spanishpronto.com/spanishpronto
Spanish games - http://www.angelfire.com/az/billericay/spgames.html
Vocabulary Training Exercises - http://www.vokabel.com/
Vocabulary tests for learners of English, Spanish, German, and French.
Instructional
and Grammar
Guides
About.com - http://spanish.about.com/
Good, weekly online newsletter focusing on learning Spanish. User definitely needs a pop-up-killer.
Assunta
Montes de Oca de Marshall - http://www.nacnet.org/assunta/Welcome.html
“The home page for a Spanish class, but has some interesting information and links (which are mostly in Spanish) including pronunciation and (simple) grammar guides, some Spanish songs and tongue-twisters, and links to other Spanish-related sites.”
Basic Spanish Words with Pronunciation - http://members.aol.com/alvareze/spanish/
A small collection of vocabulary along with audio pronunciations.
BBC Spanish - http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/spanish/
Talk Spanish - http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/spanish/talk/
Presented by the BBC for beginning learners of Spanish. There are lessons, phrases, videos, news, and more.
businessspanish.com - http://www.businessspanish.com/
Developing collection of free online lessons focusing on business Spanish. Has audio. Free registration required.
CALL Project - http://www.indiana.edu/~call/
Spanish grammar rules. Some written only in Spanish. Written for second year students or beyond. Exercises are included. From a professor at Indiana University.
CyberSpanish
- http://www.geocities.com/spanish_au2001/
Beginning level. Related links and a glossary with some technical and economic terms. From Prairiewood Languages High School.
Descripción de
personas: Algunos adjetivos y otras expresiones - http://www.usna.navy.mil/LangStudy/descripciones.html
A list of words useful for describing people.
Electronic Flashcards for Spanish - http://www.emporia.edu/biosci/span/chap5.htm
Flashcards for the basics of grammar.
The Go Madrid Spanish Food Dictionary - http://www.gomadrid.com/dict/spanish-food-dictionary.html
A bilingual, English – Spanish, dictionary of food terms, arranged alphabetically in Spanish. There are also a few phrases that might be used in restaurants. Written with the tourist in mind.
Grammars and Language Courses - http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html
Links to many online grammars, dictionaries, and lessons for many languages. Links also to language morphology sites, linguistic fun sites, and more. Compiled by Robert Beard, Bucknell University Linguistics Program.
¡Hable
Inglés en sólo u
Written for Spanish speakers learning English. Basic. Good vocabulary lists divided into over 50 categories. Related links.
Heidi's Flash Cards - http://www.heidi.to/Flashcards/flash.asp
Can choose vocabulary lists from either from English or Spanish.
La
Página del Idioma Español
“Es una excelente guía sobre la teoría y la práctica de nuestro idioma.” There are links to the Royal Spanish Academy's Dictionary, literature, grammars, dictionaries, forums, and more. In Spanish.
Learn Spanish - http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm
Many subject lists of vocabulary and a some grammar. Friendly, bilingual (English and Spanish) chat room.
Learn Spanish - http://www.studyspanish.com/
Good
grammatical tutorial.
Preterit vs. imperfect
- http://www.usna.navy.mil/LangStudy/pretimp.html
Simple explanation of these verb tenses.
Spanish
Designed to help learners of Spanish with many vocabulary lists and clear explanations of grammar. There are also pronunciation guides.
Spanish
Subjunctive within your Grasp - http://www.usna.navy.mil/LangStudy/spanish_subjunctive.html
Clear explanation of this verb tense.
Taking the Confusion out of Por and Para - http://spanish.about.com/library/weekly/aa010499.htm
A clear explanation of the usage of these two words. From About.com
Tecla: Texts for Learners and Teachers of Spanish - http://www.sgci.mec.es/uk/Pub/tecla.html
A “magazine written for learners and teachers of Spanish.” archived back to 1994. Each article has a beginner’s, intermediate, and advanced level. From the Department of Spanish, Birkbeck College, London, England and the and the Consejería de Educación of the Spanish Embassy in London.
Unilang - http://home.unilang.org/
Basic. Has many languages.
Webspañol - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/6177/
A collection of idioms, jokes and riddles, newsgroups, poems, and more.
Verbs
Verbos Conjudador - http://turingmachine.org/compjugador/
A Spanish verb conjugator with close to 10,000 verbs.
Conjuguemos
Spanish
A self-timed, self-grading program for students learning verbs. Free registration required. From a teacher at Weston High School, Weston, Massachusets.
Conjugation
Trainer
Practice different
verbs. There are related links.
Grammar (Verbs) - http://spanish.about.com/msub13-verbs.htm
A lot of information about verbs including conjugation, the differences between ser and estar, saber and conocer, irregular verbs, and more. From About.com.
Updated 02-07