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Audio and video podcasts abound and are an excellent way to improve your Spanish. This is not
a complete list as new ones are created constantly. See the iTunes list of
available podcasts for an updated list. (Open iTunes, select the Music Store, then select
Podcasts, and search for Spanish.) If you don't have a copy of iTunes, you can download it
here. Once you subscribe to a podcast or download it directly from a website, you can listen
on your computer, save to a CD, or download to an iPod or other MP3 player.
Another site that takes you
to a wide variety of Spanish language podcast as of the summer of 2006, thanks to Los Blogueros,
is map-based. Also Podcast.net has many links.
The list below takes you to the website of the podcast so you can learn more about it and try
it out. But if you decide to subscribe to it, using iTunes or an RSS feeder program is the most
automated method of getting every episode.
SSL4YOU— Espaņol segunda
lengua para todos. An excellent series for developing listening skills, completely in Spanish.
Each episode is 10-15 minutes long and contains a slowly spoken monologue or dialogue, an explication
of each phrase and idiom, and a repeat of the dialogue at normal speed. Three are recorded each
month. Athough Teresa Sánchez
is Spanish, her accent is not particularly strong.
El Bloguipodio— This comes
out of Washington, DC, and is a dialogue (from a leftist perspective) between two bloggers (El
Bloguero y La Bloguera) on current events and relevant history. They talk very conversationally
and speak a standard Latin American Spanish. Episodes are around an hour long and come out somewhat
randomly.
Radio Univision— Weekly news from Washington, with a focus on issues of interest to the Latino community.
Study Spanish— A
language tutorial, lots of grammar lessons, exercises, and tests. A great
site to review such bugaboos as por/para or ser/estar. All
in English.
Zona ele— An amazing site with a complete grammar and exercises, irregular verbs, a lexicon, insults and curses, recipes, Mexican names, and an excellent review of the differences between Mexican and Spanish Spanish.
Enrique Yepes site— Many grammar exercises by Yepes plus links to many other sites. As well as a grammar guide and lots of other help.
Excellent
supplementary grammar exercises—By Colby professor Barbara
Nelson. The exercises provide explanations for each answer.
The Spanish Call
project— More grammar, exercises, links. Another great site
for learning!
90-question
Spanish quiz—From Webspañol. Test your knowledge of
grammar and idioms.
More
grammar exercises—A little more advanced than some of the
others.
Learn
Spanish page of links—Lots of links for language help. This
is a wonderful page. You’ll wish you had nothing else to do.
Lingolex—An
odd site from Granada, Spain, with lists (almost all the uses of the word "dar", 120 words
associated with soccer, 50 words to describe personality) and learning links.
Lecturas paso a paso— Online
readings from Centro Cervantes for beginners, intermediates,
and advanced with exercises and explanations. Another excellent site.
El Castellano— Spanish
grammar from Spain for linguists and those interested in
the Spanish language.
How
to type special characters— How to type all of the accented
and other Spanish characters on your Macintosh or Windows keyboard.
Slang from
different countries— Jerga... Argot... Slang... Modismo...
Country by country.
Academia
Hispano Americana— This is our partner school in San Miguel
de Allende. Please contact us for more information or to help with arrangements.
Rosetta Stone
software— Excellent language learning software.
Transparent language
site— Transparent also sells language learning software.
Newspapers
around the world— A listing of every online newspaper in
the world. It’s a great resource for polyglots.
Newspaper
links— More newspaper links from Study Spanish.
El Pais— An
excellent newspaper from Spain.
La Nación— An
excellent newspaper from Buenos Aires.
La Jornada— An
excellent newspaper from Mexico.
BBC news in Spanish— Need
we say more?
BBC
radio live in Spanish— Opens Real Player.
Los
Titulares de Hoy— Democracy Now!'s daily news summary translated into Spanish.
You'll need to click on the Titulares link on DN's home page. You can also have this sent
to your email daily.
Radio
stations via the web— Links to many Spanish language radio
stations.
Radio
links— from Study Spanish.
Univisión— Everything
you want to know about Univisión’s programs plus up-to-date
news.
Free Translation and Babelfish— You
have to be very careful at these sites, particularly with idioms. But for
common, simple sentences, the translations are okay.
Your dictionary
site— An amazing selection of specialized and general references.
Travlang
dictionary lookup— Good for looking up a work or phrase.
It uses lots of sources. But lots of irritating pop-up windows are the
price you pay.
Alpha dictionary site— Lots of excellent links, including a group of radio stations
that webcast. And direct link at top to wordreference.com.
Wordreference.com— The dictionary site we use regularly.
El Pueblo— El
Pueblo is an important statewide organization dedicated to strengthening
the Latino community and promoting cross-cultural understanding. They sponsor
Raleigh's annual Fiesta del Pueblo.
AHEC— North
Carolina AHEC Latino Health Resource Center—resources for healthcare
providers and their Spanish speaking patients.
La Conexión— North
Carolina Spanish language weekly newspaper.
Folklórico— The
Mexican Folklórico Home Page, mostly dance.
Houghton
Mifflin— Lots and lots and lots of links to a variety of sites
in the US, Latin America, and Europe.
More
from Study Spanish— Fun, travel, radio, newspapers, travel,
language schools, ...
Maps— From
Houghton Mifflin.
The
BBC— Lots of links from the BBC.
Hispanic
Magazine— Links to dictionaries, libraries, health resources.
Yahoo— In
Spanish.
Que Pasa— A
site aimed at US Hispanics.
Star Media— Good
for Latin American news.
El Sitio— Country-specific
content for US and LA countries.
Terra— From
Spain.
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