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Spanish Resources On The Internet

Spanish Language Resources
Includes sites on culture and history,Music, Radio, and Television/Cinema,News and Magazines,Literature and Language,Country/City Tours, Miscellaneous sites
Super Spanish Resources
From Jim Becker, Professor Emeritus-University of Northern Iowa-many resources on travel, countries, culture, spanish language, news sources and more
Houghton Mifflin's Spanish Language Resource
These resources are designed to assist both instructors and students of Spanish. This site features links to a variety of authentic materials, inuding cultural, linguistic, and current media
Biblioteca Nacional
National Library of Spain. Site is available in both English and Spanish
Hola Esponol
Handbook of Latin American Studies
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities
World Government Resources
From Hieros Gamos The Comprehensive Law and Government Portal. You may select a specific country, or the United Nations or NAFTA, The U.S., European Union
Learn Spanish using Free Interactive Online Lessons---From Learn Spanish Today-the U.S. Institute of Languages
Accents, Diacriticals and Special Language Characters for Foreign Languages
Special characters are often needed for DOS and MACs in three areas: for word processing, for writing within a internet page and for html. This page, compiled from several sources and numerous LLTI messages, offers several options and hopefully solutions.
Spanish Grammar Exercises
by Barbara Nelson, the best on the web!
Comp-jugador
Verb Conjugator
WordReference.Com
Translate any word in any Web page with a few quick clicks, using the Collins translating dictionaries from HarperCollins Publishing. WordReference Personal works with Windows 95/98/NT and comes in two forms, one for Internet Explorer, one for Netscape. You may choose English-Spanish Spanish-English and many other languages as well
Spain and Spanish On the Net
Links to many resources on Spain and the Spanish language
Spanish Directory
Spanish Language Courses in Spain
Spanish newspapers and magazines currently online.
Listing by title
Spanish Genealogical Resources
From LookSmart-Internet sites for finding spanish genealogical research
Hispanic Art Links
Artists, museums, galleries, and on-line collections of Hispanic art
Resources for Fans of Mexican Film/Music
Collected links to Web resources for Mexican film and music, both traditional and new
Basic Spanish for the Virtual Student
Learn Spanish from 50+ modules covering pronunciation, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and other themes
English-Spanish Dictionary Online
Online dictionary contains 5,400 items
Spanish Proverbs
From About.com. To understand Spanish culture and the way Spaniards think and act, there aren't more revealing things than proverbs, refranes in Spanish.
Spanish Traditions
From About.com. Spain is a country full of traditions and fiestas which have its origins in the beginning of our history. These events and traditions are an important part of our culture and an excellent way to learn and understand the Spanish way of life.
Webspanol
Spanish language resources online Promoting the study and appreciation of the Spanish Language by utilizing a variety of internet resources
Newpapers in Latin America
This page has links to newspapers in Latin America and around the world.
Latin American Library-Tulane
The Latin American Library is the repository of more than 100 collections of manuscripts, dating from the early 16th century to the present day. In all, the library has over 750 linear feet of manuscripts.
Diego Rivera Web Museum
"Diego Rivera 's legacy to modern mexican art was decisive in murals and canvas; he was a revolutionary painter looking to take art to the big public, to streets and buildings, managing a precise, direct, and realist style, full of social content."
Virtual Forum of Mexican Art and Culture
SiSpain: Lengua y cultura
La cultura de un país o grupo se puede ver como un flujo continuo, con energías creativas de nuevos talentos contribuyendo al cambio. En un momento determinado, la cultura es una compleja amalgama de glorias pasadas y de tendencias de vanguardia.
Spain in CyberSpain
An overview of Spanish traditions with photos. Includes bullfighting, flamenco music, Christmas, and even the famous La Tomatina event, a food fight par excellence.
Hot Internet Sites ¡en Español!
You will find resources for students who speak Spanish as their primary language and you will also find links for students learning Spanish as a foreign language. The resources are appropriate for Kindergarten through Community College levels.
LatinWorld
A wonderful bilingual site with resources accessed by region: North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Can be slow or difficult to access, depending on the time of day.
Si, Spain
This interactive service "Sí, Spain" (2.1), which promotes free exchange of information on Spanish current affairs and its historical, linguistic and cultural development, has begun its third phase through the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. German, French and Spanish versions will progressively follow.
Spanish Literature Resources
Center for Liberal Arts-University of Virginia
En Espanol
From Librarian Index to the Internet. "Some features are bilingual, but the majority are solely in Spanish, and there are extensive links to Spanish language newspapers (and CNN in Spanish) as well as to cultural sites featuring foods and festivals."
Yupi.com
Yahoo! for Spanish speakers. Searchable index of Spanish language Web sites, mostly Latin America.
Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
Searchable database of more than 5,500 recommended books in Spanish for children and adolescents published around the world. In English & Spanish
Learn Spanish
Free online tutorial. Contains:pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary lessons, verb drills, travel phrases helper, cultural notes, and more.
Spanish Resources
Many resources and links to resources.
El Gobierno Informa
Spanish Government web pages
Spain and Spanish on the Net
From La Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In Spanish.
Hispanic Languages Sites
This is a collection of links to websites which we believe can be of use to both teachers and learners of languages.
Libro-Library of Iberian Resources Online
Its task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula. the collection focuses upon the Hispanic Middle Ages, ca. 500 to 1500, but will eventually expand to include titles from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well.
Centro Virtual Cervantes
Virtual classroom for students of Spanish
Voxhispana
Links to FREE electronic texts in SPANISH. From Miguel de Cervantes and Christopher Columbus, to Horacio Quiroga and Rubén Darío, the works of the main Masters of Spanish Literature are NOW at your disposal
Cervantes 2001 Project
Comprehensive reference and research site decidated to the study of Cervantes's works and life.
Mundo Latina Cultura
Predominantly Latin American texts
Centro de Investigaciones Literarias Hipertextuales
A few texts from 16th & 17th century Spain, 20th century Latin America & contemporary Argentina
Biblioteca electrónica. Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuelan site whose collection of electronic texts includes many other subjects besides literature
Antología de poesía española
A Collection of Spanish Poems. Available in English & Spanish
La Conquista de America
Anthology of texts from authors contemporary with the conquest of America and the Colonies
Spanish Resources
Some of the most relevant links to courses, dictionaries, grammar, interesting sites, general information, history of the language, maps about different areas, music, newspapers, magazines, general learning resources, passages in Spanish, travelling tips and basic travelling language.
To write in Spanish with an English keyboard
Spanish Dictionaries
Online dictionaries
Spanish Web Resources
Links arranged by subject from Art to Women
CNN-Spanish Version
Spanish version of the CNN network
Inter Natura
Information on the environment & ecology in Spanish.
Mexico Web
A comprehensive directory of Mexican web sites including areas dedicated to news, education, entertainment, politics, history and culture
Textos de Comedias
Plays from the Siglo de oro including works by Calderón, Caro de Mallén, Hurtado de Mendoza, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mira de Amescua, Moreto, Rojas Zorrilla, Ruiz de Alarcón, Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, and Vélez de Guevara. Also some translations.
Antología del Ensayo Ibero e Iberoamericano
Large collection of Spanish essays from the 14th to the 20th centuries, listed by author and chronologically. Part of the Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico at the University of Georgia.
TEXTOSLEMIR: Textos de Literatura Española Medieval y del Renacimiento
Este Servidor ha sido creado con la intención de ser un instrumento más para los investigadores de todo el mundo en Literatura española Medieval y del Renacimiento.
Federico García Lorca--Poems
Sonetos del Siglo de Oro
Its primary purpose is to provide good verse translations of Golden Age Spanish sonnets to English-speaking readers.
Spanish Literature: General
From About.com has a good selection of links about Spanish literature
Literatura Argentina Contemporánea
Contemporary literature from Argentina
Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation
The Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies & Documentation is an academic organization based at The University of Aarhus in Denmark, dedicated to the research of works by J. L. Borges, and the study of themes and the style of thinking found in his work.
FERNANDO PESSOA
Site in Spanish dealing with the poets work.
GABRIELA MISTRAL
From the Nobel Archive with links to other sites
OCTAVIO PAZ
From the Nobel Archive with links to other sites
THE LAY OF THE CID
The Lay of the Cid is a translation of the Cantar del mio Cid, a poem written in the mid-twelfth century about the Castilian Hero, Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, and relating events from his exile from Castile in 1081 until shortly before his death in 1099.
Anel de Poesia
Páginas de poesia em língua portuguesa, de expressão lusitana, brasileira ou africana, traduções, coletâneas, páginas de autores, sites de literatura, homepages pessoais, textos e críticas, dicas e links de poesia.
Poetas y Letras
Este anillo contiene una diversidad de poesia poetas y letras de todo el mundo. Contiene poemas de todas las indoles.
SOR JUANA FILES
Access to Sor Juana's plays, poetry, and prose works.
Selected Works, Juana Inés de la Cruz
Visión de los Vencidos: Relaciones Indígenas de la Conquista, Portilla, Miguel Lesn
Visión de los Vencidos ha marcado el inicio de una nueva forma de historiografía cuyo propósito central es mostrar "la perspectiva y la imagen del otro"
V O X H I S P A N A
Links to FREE electronic texts in SPANISH
LATINO CULTURES & HISTORY
Links to sites on various latin american countries.
Pacasmayo
Literatura peruana, y especialmente de la provincia y el puerto de Pacasmayo
The Reinaldo Arenas Papers
The Reinaldo Arenas Papers consists of typescripts and manuscripts of novels and novellas, short stories, plays and screenplays, poetry, nonfiction, correspondence, and miscellaneous and printed material. Princeton U. Libraries
Borges and I (from Borges' Labyrinths) (Martin Irvine, Georgetown U.)
The Library of Babel (The Libyrinth)
Pere Gimferrer Page
Album Pere Gimferrer" is a web page which explores the poetics of Pere Gimferrer's many voices and personalities. In Spanish
Noteworthy Books in Spanish
Spanish National Library
National Library of Spain
Sancho
Translates Spanish into English automatically
Web Translation Page
Site lets you translate a web site or text
Webspanol
Promoting the study and appreciation of the Spanish Language by utilizing a variety of internet resources
Royal Academy of the Spanish Language
All this information is in Spanish.
Basic Spanish for the Virtual Student
Learn Spanish from 50+ modules covering pronunciation, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and other themes
Latin American Studies Southeast Region (LASER)
This page provides links to the library websites and online catalogs of the major Latin American and Caribbean research collections in the Southeast U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Spanish Literature: Interactive Learing site
Proyecto Sherezade surgió en 1996 como un espacio virtual para promover el intercambio de narraciones entre hispanohablantes mediante la publicación de cuentos inéditos y las opiniones de sus lectores.
Centro de Investigaciones Literarias Hipertextuales
Links to on-line texts and criticism are available at this site to a limited number of Spanish and Latin American authors.
Iberian Language and Literature Web
This site provides links to electronic texts, literary criticism and gateways to other webs dedicated to Spanish literature.
Interletras. Revista de Crítica y Literatura en Lengua Española
In addition to the latest numbers of the journal in full text, this site offers links to Spanish literary texts on-line and other sources of literary criticism.
La Nación On Line: Suplemento Cultura
The on-line literary supplement of this noted Argentine daily offers book reviews and literary criticism.
Página de la Lengua Española
Although there are a few non-functioning links on this site, it remains a comprehensive list of links to Spanish language literature on the web encompassing both Spain and Latin America.
Comedia (Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Inc.)
The focus of this site is primarily Golden Age drama but it does include some nineteenth century dramatists as well. There are links to ongoing research, on-line texts, and web pages on related topics.
Golden Ae Sonnets
Its primary purpose is to provide good verse translations of Golden Age Spanish sonnets to English-speaking readers. 106 sonnets with translations posted. I have also included some links to other web sites.

NATIONAL LITERATURES OF SPANISH AMERICA

ARGENTINA


 Literatura: Historia de la Literatura Argentina
     A well organized site for Argentina literature,these pages cover five chronological periods beginning in 1810 and ending in 1990.

BOLIVIA

Literatura [Bolivia]
A history of Bolivian poetry with links to samples of authors' works is offered at this site.

CHILE

Premios Nobel de Literatura
This site is dedicated to Chile's internationally acclaimed poets:  Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda.
David Moya Posas
Dedicated to the Honduran poet David Moya Posas, these pages offer complete text to many poems.

MEXICO

Foro Virtual de Cultura Mexicana
An outstanding comprehensive guide to Mexican literature, this site includes a dictionary of authors and anthology.

PUERTO RICO
 El Cuarto del Quenepón: Revista sobre la Cultura Puertorriqueña
     This magazine is more popular in nature butalso offers reviews of current literature.

URUGUAY
 Literatura
      A panoramic overview of Uruguayan literature is offered at this site.

E-Journals

Interletras : Revista de Critica y Literatura en Lengua Espanola
Laberinto
Latin World-Argentina-Revistas-Magazines-Revistas
PhiloBiblon
Revista de Estudios Literarios

Internet resources for Latin America
The links in this guide will provide access to many information resources for Latin American studies. I've included what I consider some of the best places to find unique and useful information, however, these sites are only starting points. New Mexico State University
Literatura, from Artes e Historia
Includes a dictionary of Mexican writers.
Latin American and Spanish Literature
General resources,and resources on specific authors.
Magic Realism
Magical Realism
Essay from Garcia Marquez, definition and links to books, internet resources and papers on the topic
Spanish Prosody
In English
La Pagina del Idioma Español
A rich collection of links to periodical literature, dictionaries, topics in grammar and translation, online courses, discussion groups, and many other resources -- all related to the study of Spanish.
Tecla
Texts for Learners and Teachers of Spanish--Tecla is a joint production of the Spanish Department at Birkbeck College and the Consejería de Educación of the Spanish Embassy in London. Each edition of this weekly publication features several short articles in Spanish with accompanying vocabulary lists.
Reforma.Com
one of the major newspapers in Mexico
El Norte
The major paper in sentemptrional Mexico

This page compiled by Marsha Keenan  Last update January 2005
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