News sources
What's happening in the (Spanish-speaking) world?
Check out these sources for Spanish-language news:
- BBC Mundo
- CNN en espagñol
- El País or El Mundo (two newspapers in Spain)
- Zona Latina for regional and international news sources in Latin America and around the world
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Online Language Learning Resources
Language Learning Tools
Recommended by your instructors.
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL): Spanish
Housed at the University of Texas at Austin, COERLL is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings.
Spanish Tools & Resources
A collection of online resources for students of Spanish language and culture created by the NC State University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Includes grammar tools.
SpanishDict!
"Spanish Learning Made Easy"
WordReference.Com
Language forums, dictionaries, grammar & usage tools, and more
Linguee
For all languages - an electronic tool for translation courses
Live Lingua
New Lexicographical Treasure of the Spanish Language
The nuevo tesoro lexicográfico de la lengua española (NTLLE) from La Real Academia Española is a "dictionary of dictionaries."
Phonetic transcription tools
Phonetic transcription keyboards
- Lexilogos multilingual keyboard
- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) keyboard
More Cultural and Language Resources
Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian Online Free E-Resources (LACLI)
A Latin America Northeast Libraries Consortium (LANE) project. This is a warehouse of online free e-resources with Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian full content. Direct link to Google doc is here.
Acervo de Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (ALIN)
Mexico's Secretary of Culture manages this open, physical and digital documentary collection that contains data on national indigenous languages such as vocabularies, phrases and narrations in audio and video format. Its purpose is to preserve data on languages that are at high risk of disappearance, and to have linguistic material available for research projects and language conservation.