CCSF Language Center - Spanish Links Language Learning Search Engines Dictionaries Media Literature and Culture Music Internet Resources New! Click here to try out voki. com, a free, user-friendly web 2.0 tool. Create Spanish-speaking animated characters and email them to friends! Spanish Language Learning Sites Instructor’s Home Pages Ana Garcia Ed Stering CCSF Textbook Sites Plazas: Lugar de encuentros - Accompanies text used for Spanish 1, 1A (Fall '08). Access auto-pruebas, crossword puzzles, flashcards and more. Al corriente - Spanish Internet Guide - Accompanies text used for Spanish 3+ Dicho y hecho (8th ed.) Online Study Tools - Accompanies the 8th edition text (Sp. 10A, etc.) Dicho y hecho (7th ed.) Online Study Tools - Accompanies 7th edition text (Sp. 10A, etc.) Nexos (Media Edition) - A first-year Spanish textbook site that includes chapter-by-chapter "Improve your grade" units with audio flashcards, web search activities and more ; "ACE the test" unit includes practice tests and video activities. Also note "Tutor Center" offers Spanish tutoring online at specified times. Eduspace® - For students using Nexos (Media Edition). Access your online account here to use in conjunction with your textbook and workbooklab manual. Quia - For students using Nexos (Media Edition). Access your online account here to use in conjunction with your textbook to play actitivites, take quizzes, view results. Other Language Learning Sites BBC Education - Spanish Many resources for learners of Spanish organized by level; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced. Games and resources for travelers are also available. SpanishSense offers free daily podcasts, 34 lessons by level, vocabulary review, tests, pdf-format dialogs, and posted comments to others regarding the lessons. NEW! Verb Conjugations displays regular and irregular forms in table or list format. Conjuguemos is a self-grading, self-timed conjugating program for Spanish students. iRadio podcasts from textbook publisher Heinle. Helpful for the beginning students to familiarize themselves with the basic sounds of Spanish and introductory grammar. Foreign Languages for Travelers Choose Spanish. Basic phrases and words with sound! There are also more links to dictionaries and Spanish learning sites. Gramática Explanations of basic Spanish grammar with interactive exercises. languageguide.org (from Austin, Texas) See the picture, read the text, hear the pronunciation (just guide your mouse over the picture, no clicking!) Alphabet, numbers, many categories of vocabulary. A wonderful resource. NEW! Learn Spanish A free online tutorial from studyspanish.com. Many sound files and resources. (Uses Shockwave.) Mas arriba Self-correcting exercises from Trent University (Canada) to accompany textbook of the same title. Useful even for those not using that text. Mundo 21 An extensive series of links with information about each country studied in Mundo 21. Pronunciation Exercises from the University of Iowa. This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. Recommended by CCSF Spanish Instructor Ed Stering. Spanish Grammar Exercises by Barbara Kuczun Nelson at Colby College. Wonderful exercises plus an extensive list of other online interactive exercises for Spanish. A favorite of CCSF Spanish students! Spanish Language Exercises by Juan Ramón de Arana Spanish Language Resources from Houghton-Mifflin. Click on links to explore Spanish culture, language, media sites, and more, or check the maps. Search Engines in Spanish Google en español Terra Spanish language portal site. Yahoo! en español Spanish Dictionaries WordReference.com is an excellent translation dictionary. yourDictionary.com has dictionaries for every need. Diccionario Usual (1992) de la Real Academia Española Media Links ABC Madrid El Pais El Nuevo Herald Digital from Miami Granma Internacional Digital, Cuba Cuban Government Newspaper IndyMedia in Spanish from Argentina, Chiapas, Columbia, and Uruguay La Jornada (Mexico) La Opinión Digital from Los Angeles La Prensa from Nicaragua Beelinetv offers links to various Spanish-language television broadcasts, such as NovaTV from Columbia and RIPA TV from Spain. Toda la Prensa - Links to newspapers, magazines, radio, and television from throughout the Spanish speaking world. Literature and Culture Artes y Historia México Diego Rivera Mural Project Choose English or Spanish. Literatura Argentina Contemporánea Literature Links from LANIC Music Latin American Popular Music Page Learn about the different genres of Latin American music, hear examples. Ojalá que llueva café Guided reading by Barbara Kuzcun Nelson of the song by Juan Luis Guerra. Hear the music, learn the words, and what they mean. Also provided are exercises, and much more. Needs Quicktime. Spanish Language Song Lyrics Collection Internet Resources from the Spanish-Speaking World About.com, Spanish Links of interest about the Spanish language, literature in Spanish, music, chat, and more. EspanOlé Fabulous resource of well-organized links for students and teachers of Spanish. Instituto Cervantes Internet Resources for Spanish and Portuguese from UCSB. LANIC from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas. Links organized by country and subject. Open Directory Project - Spanish language version. This site strives to be the definitive catalog of the Web. It is developed and maintained by a community of "net-citizens" who are experts in their areas of interest. Extensive and constantly updated. Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures @ Globe-Gate Updated: 08/28/2009 Language Center CCSF