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Mundo Maya Magazine : articles and information on the history, culture, arte, festivales and life of the Mayan people.
Maya Related Resources : this site is full of links to Mayan, Precolumbian, Aztec materials. A must visit for the history enthusiast.
Comida : if you are a lover of Hispanic cuisine you will find a tempting list of food links here.
Cocina Mexicana includes recipes for authentic Mexican food, history of common foods, and typical foods by region. Some recipes include beautiful pictures of the food.
Hispanic Magazine: a list of links to articles for and about Hispanics. Site includes Hispanic culture, business, sports and more.
Mexico : take a look inside some of the most interesting resources in Mexico; a must see for info on historia, geografia, arte, deporte, folklore, and more.
Museo del Prado : one of Spain's most famous musuems offers online tours of its collection and other museum information.
Spanish Arts.com : many famous Spanish paintings found here. Click on the image for a larger view and commentary on the work.
Museos en España : if you can't take your students to Spain you might as well bring Spanish culture to them. Here's an extensive list of Spain's museums online.
Museo Virtual de Artes El País: offers a virtual museum tour. This site is sponsored by el País and has links in the newspaper as well.
Museo Virtual: this virtual museum featurs the works of Goya, Picasso, and Velazquez. View and compare their works and read their biographs to enter the minds of these great artists.
Puntos de Encuentro: an interesting site of essays on topics related to equal rights and the women's movement in LA
Sí, España : links to information on everyday life, history, geography, language and culture in Spain.
Biografías y Vidas : a searchable database containing thousands of biographies and personal histories.
Flamenco World : this site is rich in culture and history of Flamenco. Read articles, interviews, and much more.
Es Flamenco : Discover the artists, the music and the history of this beautiful dance.
El Rincón Musical Peruano : links to a variety of music, articles and music history. Word of warning, many of the pages have background music with no way to turn it off.
Caracol :with the RealAudio plugin you can hear the news live on Colombian radio.
Wayanay Inka : get a taste of Andean culture through the music and information located at this site. Features the group's sound files and instruments common to Andean culture..
Radioactiva : this division of Caracol in Colombia has links to sound bytes in RealAudio, top 100 song lists and much more.
Spanish Radio Stations : if you haven't found what you are looking for yet, try this site. Pick your country from a popup menu and you'll get a list of online radio links.
CNN En Español : CNN world news in Spanish. A great resource for Sports, weather, international concerns, health, fashion and everything else you are used to from CNN.
El Colombiano : daily news from MedellÍn, Colombia. Includes front page stories, sports, culture, and more.
El Espectador : another daily paper from Colombia. Includes front page stories, economics, sports, links to back issues, and more.
Instituto de hidrologia, meterologia, y estudios ambientales : information on climate and weather in Colombia. Updated daily.
Intervoz : get all of today's news from Cordoba, Argentina.
La Jornada : this paper supported by la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, offers general world news as well as articles contradicting hot topics.
El Mundo : MedellÍn, Colombia offers this paper. Links to politics, economy, opinions, and more.
El Tiempo : daily news from Bogotá. In addition to regular news items, a link to Colombian exports is provided.
La Nación Line : daily news from the northwest Argentina. Includes front page stories and graphics, a tourism section, and the opportunity to comment by email or read the opinion of others.
La Nación-Costa Rica : Today's news from San José, Costa Rica. Includes a section with the major happenings in other Central American countries, sports, headline news, and more.
El País : one of the most widely distributed papers in Spain is now available in part in electronic form. Updated daily.
El Periódico online : the electronic edition of El Periódico de Catalunya.
Opina digital : this site features news pulled from a variety of sources in Spain offering many viewpoints. Includes international news as well as local.
La Prensa : in addition to the complete news features of this Panama City paper, it includes the entertainment section. Guess what the movie title would be in English.
Prensa Escrita : search for daily newspapers in all Spanish speaking countries.
La Prensa Libre : straight from Guatemala this is said to be Central America's largest daily newspaper. The latest Latin American news. Articles are in Spanish.
Caretas : online Peruvian magazine covering political and cultural issues of Perú. Offers a democratic view in its full length articles.
Hachette Filipacchi : Spain's edition of numerous popular magazines including Elle, Car and Driver, Soaps, Home, Photography and many more.
El Corte Inglés : an online shopping at El Corte Inglés. A great place for product information and pricing or place an order.
Silueta a bilingual magazine with feature stories on nutrition, gardening, the planet, nature, and much more.
Noticias y Revistas : In case none of the others interest you, here is a nice listing of many of the Hispanic Newspapers available on the web.
Literature and LanguageSololiteratura: literatura hispanoamericana : links to biographical information for some of the most famous authors of the hispanic world as well as some of their works.
Liter@rt.Org : another great site full of literary works. For those works with regionalisms a glossary is provided.
Gabriel Garcia Marques : information on this famous Colombian Macondo Libyrinth is dedicated to this author and his works can be found here.
La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes : visit this virtual library full of online literature well known to the literary world. Many of these works also provide a sound option to listen to them as they are read.
Literaturas.com : discover numerous authors of the 20th and 21st centuries through their works, biographies, interviews and more.
Literatura Argentina : choose the author of interest, read online stories, or chat with others interested in literature. If you are interested in Argentine writers don't miss this site.
José Asunción Silva : information on this author, links to his biography, poetry, and prose.
Gonzalo de Berceo : complete works and glossary, hostorical documentation, biography and a variety of other related resources.
Tonos Digital : an online magazine dedicated to the study of tones and social language.
Lenguaje.com : a fabulous language site that includes tools for synonyms & antonyms, spelling, conjugation, syllabification, phonetics, stems and much more.
La página del idioma español : a wonderful page dedicated to language. Here you will find not only grammar and vocabulary but also discussion and debate about the Spanish language and its development.
Spanish Grammar Exercises: a wonderful practice resource for all those fine tune grammar points that students struggle with so often. Try it out!
Webspañol: pronunciation, verbs, lessons, links and much more. This site boasts of their commitment to Spanish Language study with Internet resources.
Gramática y ortografía: more great practice exercises which are nicely contextualized. Also offers a variety of links to rules and other tools.
Conjugation Trainer: if you are looking for a great way to practice your verb forms with immediate feedback, don't miss this site.
Conjugate Spanish Verbs Online: an automated Spanish verb conjugator. Claims to have 99% of all Spanish verbs in its database.
Palabra del día: a growing list of vocabulary including meaning, sinonyms, and examples. You can receive a word a day by email if you prefer.
Centro Virtual Cervantes: if you are interested in langauge and culture this is a place to visit. With the use of Real Video you can explore this museum of language, learn and test your knowledge both for students and instructors.
Aula Diez: Learn Spanish with interactive Spanish exercises such as writing, reading comprehension, multiple-choice, listening and association.
Online Spanish Help: if you haven't found what you were looking for in terms of resources for learning Spanish, take a look at this growing list of links.
Una Aventura Dominicana: we've almost all used Ojalá que llueva café at some point in our teaching. This website provides a guided reading/listening tour of this famous song. In addition, photos of the Dominican and links to sending virtual dominican musical postcards and more.
Online Resources-Spanish: dedicated to materials for language learning, this site includes courses, grammar, links to practice materials in all four modalities, and much more.
Diccionarios en internet: select from an alphabetical list or by topic to find the dictionary, encyclopedia, glossary. atlas or other reference book you need.
Bolivia Reference : links to Bolivian sites categorized by education, art, business, and much more.
Viaje a Guatemala: get to know this beautiful country through its landscape, food, archeology and more. If you like you can also send an ecard with a picture of your favorite spot from Fotos de Guatemala.com .
Costa Rica's Travel Web: everything you ever wanted to know about Costa Rica and travel opportunities there, including information on study abroad. Also links to available real estate.Mexico Web Guide : links by topic or use the search feature to discover and explore Mexico and its culture.
IBW Internet Gateway Nicaragua: a well organized site with links to news, economy, government, tourism and more.
Red Científica Peruana : a view of Peru including art & culture, society, tourism, and more.
Puerto Rico : "expone el mundo a Puerto Rico y expone Puerto Rico al mundo." Contains great resources to Latin America and the Caribbean as well.
Traveling in Spain : a great database of photos and descriptions of a persons tour of southern Spain including some less traveled areas. Also links to cities throughout the country.
Alicante Spain : practical information for tourists and business travelers.
Essential Barcelona Tourist Guide : everything you need to prepare for travel to this beautiful city.
Barcelona-On-line : look for an apartment or hotel in Barcelona. A great resource for language practice activities.
La ciudad de Córdoba, España : a city guide with beautiful graphics of well known monuments and interesting parts of the city.
GoMadrid : if you are planning to travel to Madrid, don't miss this site. You can find hotel and tour information. Don't miss the food dictionary before hitting the bars and restaurants.
About Madrid : another site full of tourist information on Madrid. Itineries, shopping, food and drink are all here and much more. Also links to similar sites on other cities in Spain.
MadridMan : this is a detailed website on Madrid. Everything you wanted to know and more. For the media-minded, don't miss the link to radio, TV, music & movies. In English.
Bizkaia: learn all about the Basque region of Spain including environment, economy, language, cities, tourism and much more.
Paseo Virtual Extremadura: visit the many cities, learn about the language and literature, folklore, music and dance from this region of Spain.
Conocer San Sebastian-Gipuzkoa : contains links to everything you would want to know about that region of the Basque country.
About Seville :if you are looking for travel information for Seville, this is a plentiful site.
Visita Virtual a la Comunidad Valenciana : everything you ever wanted to know about the Comunidad Valenciana in Spanish. Links to cities as well as general regional information.
Uruguay: links to history, geography, general country info, and much more.
Foreign Language Resources for Students and Teachers
www.foreignword.com: It is a word/text translation service and has access to 265 + online dictionaries for 73 languages. It is very useful as a dictionary. However, it is not recommended for translating texts because, like all other text translators, it is not accurate and is not accepted for classroom use by all foreign language teachers at TZ.
www.diccionarios.com: It is an online dictionary that allows you to translate English, French, German or Catalán to Spanish, Spanish to English, French, German or Catalán, as well as finding synonyms and antonyms in Spanish. It also allows you to conjugate verbs. However, you are limited to looking up a few words each time to go the website and then requires that you become a member and pay a fee for the service.
www.ilovelanguages.com: It is a large catalog of a variety of resources which include online language lessons, dictionaries, language schools etc.
www.studyspanish.com: It is a free online tutorial. You can use their grammar drills, online, read their newletter or their word of the day as well as their idiom generator and their cultural notes. Some of it is free to use without membership, for other things you can join for free and for their premium service you need to join and pay a fee.
www.quia.com: You will find all sorts of activities to practice your Spanish at this website. You can subscribe for 30 days for no charge. However, after 30 days there is a fee.
www.conjuguemos.com: It is a website where you can verb conjugations, grammar and vocabulary in Latin, French, German and Spanish. There is no fee but you have to subscribe to use their service.
www.sispain.com: Go to this website to find out about Spanish fiestas, travel to Spain, Spanish culture, politics, geography, population and more.
www.cicclapaz.com/spanishonline.html: It is a site where you can take a variety of “tests” in Spanish to practice your grammar.
http://www.learnalanguage.org/elemspan/: This is a resource for elementary school students but can be used by older students learning Spanish as well. It includes topics such as the alphabet, clothing, food and drink, the family and many, many more!
Latin American Studies Library : pick by country or by topic. You can find everything you were missing on Latin America in one spot.
Internet Resources for Latin American :a guide to Latin American resources on the web published by Molly Molloy on behalf of the New Mexico State University Library.
Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures @ Globe-Gate : this is a nice long list of sites if you don't mind scrolling to find what you are looking for. Includes listserves, search engines, maps, grammar, online lessons, general links, and much more.
Qué Hubo : Las páginas amarillas de Colombia is a place to link to every business you can think of in Colombia and more. Recommended: 28.8 modem or better for the graphics and animation.
España al desnudo : this long list of links includes culture, sports, tourism, media, maps, economy, and much more.
