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Internet Resources for Spanish:

About.com's Spanish Site - Has vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation practice.

BBC Homepage - Languages - Spanish - Courses include the following: 1. Spanish Steps: A self-contained online course for beginners. 2. Talk Spanish: Short introductory course with TV series and book. 3. Sueños: Video clips, language notes and activities to accompany this well-established course. This site also has news, sites for work, travel and school.

Best Spanish Websites - By Jim Becker. Tons of links to great websites for both students and instructors.

Business Spanish.com - Has grammar, vocabulary, beginner's lessons, and travel Spanish.

CONEXIONES: COMUNICACIÓN Y CULTURA COMPANION WEBSITE - Audio Links for the Student Activities Manual (SAM). Chapter Review Activities and Links.

Centro Virtual Cervantes - Lecturas paso a paso - This site has stories that are at Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Levels of Spanish. It includes pre-reading activities and questions after reading.

Digiclass@Rutgers.edu - Spanish Grammar - Several Spanish grammar topics included in this site. Including explanations and practice.

Digital Dialects - Language Learning Games

E.L. Easton Languages Online - This site contains several links to the following areas: Test Your Spanish, Quizzes & Tests, Courses, Grammar, Listen & Speak, Read & Write, Vocabulary, Why Study Spanish?, The Language Classroom, and Study in Spain.

Electronic Flashcards for Spanish - Verb conjugations, use of correct tenses, verb-preposition combinations, translation of prepositional phrases.

Entevistas 2nd Edition - An Introduction to Language and Culture

Entrevistas Website - This site has exercises from your textbook including vocabulary, grammar and crosswords indexed by each chapter.

LangMedia: Spanish- Language by Country Combined Index - Videos and information sorted by country on the following topics: Airports and Air Transportation, Cars and Driving, Cultural Interest, Directions, Eating at Home, Eating Out, Emergencies and Health Care, Entertainment, Food, Shopping, Greetings and Partings, Internet, Laundry, Local Transportation, Lodging, Money, Pedestrians, Pharmacies, Post Office, Recycling and Trash, Restrooms, Shopping for Household Goods, Taxi Service, Telephones, Time, Travel Around the Country.

Learn How to Speak Spanish - Online Spanish Help - Interactive Spanish Lessons

Learn Spanish - A Free On-Line Tutorial - Comprehensive on-line tutorial with detailed explanations, quizzes, oral and written exercises, and drills. *Rated excellent by students previewing this site.

Learning Chocolate.com - Learning Chocolate is web site aims to help students to memorize vocabulary in an easy and efficient way, by using pictures, sounds and games. Try their games and enjoy learning, like eating chocolate.

Lingolex Learn Spanish - Originally designed for Spanish-speakers who want to learn English. It has adjectives, prepositions, the weather, food, clothes, 100 most frequently used verbs, phrases, and a reference chart.

Living Language - Helpful for knowing expressions, greetings, approaching someone for help, question words, changing money, and time.

Mosaicos Companion Website - Includes an array of activities and resources designed to reinforce the grammar, vocabulary and cultural material in each chapter. Provides audio recordings for the text and for the Student Activities Manual (SAM).

Professor Deborah Lemon's Website - This site matches the Dicho y Hecho 7th Edition textbook. Select your Spanish course: Spanish 101A (Capítulos Preliminar a seis) or 101B (Capítulos siete a trece.) Exámenes, Grammar Notes, Basics, Verbs and Vocabulary.

Quia! Spanish Activities - Games using vocabulary, conjugations, colors, adjectives, body parts, numbers, food, animals, weather, family, clothing, adjectives and irregular verbs.

SpanishChecker - A very basic tool for checking spelling and grammar in student essays. Students can either type directly into the on-screen text box or import (copy & paste) their work. This online tool has its limitations, but it is useful and there is no other free program similar to this.

Spanish Grammar Exercises - Interactive worksheets for different aspects of Spanish grammar.

Spanish Grammar Exercises - Verb forms and usage, grammar exercises and self-check verb charts.

Spanish Pronto! - Tools, Basics, Reading, Vocabulary, and a Glossary.

Spanish Verb Conjugation Trainer - Practice the Present Tense, Preterite, Imperfect, Future Tense, Present Subjunctive, Imperfect Subjunctive, and Conditional.

Virtual Link Spanish - A commercial site where you may practice with quizzes and vocabulary for beginners.

Vocabulary Training Exercises - Topics include verbs, general vocabulary, and specific topics such as The Hotel and Clothing.

Vocabulix - Vocabulary Trainer and Conjugation Trainer - This site has 85 vocabulary lessons and has conjugation practice for several verbs.

eLanguageSchool.net TM - Learn the Basics, Grammar, Words and Phrases, and Practice and Exercises.

¡Hola Español! - This website requires a membership for some activities, but there are several activities to work on that are free. Some of these are: El Alfabeto, Las Américas, Animales, El calendario, Los colores, Diccionario, Ejercicios, En la universidad, Hola, Me gusta, Los números, Pronunciacion, Realidad, y Ropa.

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Audio CDs:

  • Dicho y Hecho (for language manual activities)
  • Mundo 21 Workbook Activities

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Software on CD-ROMS:

  • Easy Language Conversation (beginning level & intermediate levels)
  • Español Dinámico (beginning level)
  • Learn to Speak Spanish (deluxe)
  • Rosetta Stone (beginning level)
  • Standard Deviants Spanish (beginning level)
  • Spanish Tutor (intermediate level)
  • Spanish Your Way (beginning & intermediate levels)
  • Swift Multimedia Spanish (beginning level)
  • Talk Now Spanish! (beginning level
  • Triple Play Spanish (beginning and intermediate)
  • Word Ace Spanish! (intermediate & advanced)
  • World Talk (beginning level)

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Videos:

  • Dicho y Hecho DVD
  • Entrevistas (beginning & intermediate levels)
  • Mosaicos: Diarios de Bicicleta
  • Mosaicos: Entrevistas
  • Mosaicos: Vistas Culturales
  • Standard Deviants Spanish (beginning levels)
  • Standard Deviants Advanced Spanish (beginning & intermediate levels)
  • Survival Spanish (lessons 1-30) (beginning & intermediate levels)

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