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| Class Index | Albert Marqués | David Pérez |
Gavilan Resources
 | Gavilan Library: Our college library has hundreds of Spanish titles for you to check out, and if they don't have what you need they can order it from other libraries. |
| Gavilan Computer Lab:
Your first stop for Spanish practice and homework. You will find Gaspar, the Gavilan Spanish Review program, online literature, an online Spanish dictionary, MS Word with Spanish spell check and thesaurus, and more. |
| Gavilan Spanish CDs: Many of the programs used in the Gavilan Computer lab and in your Spanish classes are available on CD - click here for the complete list. |
|
Gavilan celebrates 400 years of Don Quijote: Check out the interactive bi-lingual version on the web, at the lab, or on CD. Read the First English translation (1612, 1620) by Thomas Shelton, or the popular Jarvis translation. |
Web links
| Country specific information: click one of
the flags on the left to find links to lots of pages for a country (pass the
mouse over the flags to see the country names). Or go directly to: |
| LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center: University of Texas page with links to complete detail about all Latin American countries. |
| Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes: the biggest collection of Spanish literature online - over 8000 books, audio files, videos, biographies. |
| Centro Virtual Cervantes: this library has fully annotated versions of all of Cervantes' titles, as well as a collection of graded readings for students of Spanish. |
| CervantesTV: the online TV station of the Instituto Cervantes - 24/7 interviews, specials, music, theater - a high quality presentation of Spanish & Latin American culture, geared towards students of Spanish. |
| Literatura Hispanoamericana: award-winning collection organized by Francisco Robles Ortega, professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the Instituto Vilatzara, Spain. Links to author pages, online text selections, audio, etc. |
| Spanish Poetry: 3000 poems from hundreds of authors, from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Search by author, title, first line, and more. |
|
La
Santa Biblia:
online Spanish version of the Bible essential for understanding Latin American culture. |
| BBC Spanish News: Read a weekly selection of stories from BBC, look up the key words, note how the language is used, take a quiz, or practice your listening skills with the related audio files. |
|
Enciclonet: Spanish online Encyclopedia. Check out their great
"animaciones". Log in with nick=Gavilan1, clave=student to search this large reference data base, or register in your own name, access is free, but most content is restricted to paid subscription only ... This encyclopedia is also available on CD for your home computer, click for details. |
| Enciclopedia Universal en Español: The Spanish version of Encyclopedia Britannica, with articles, timeline, and Atlas. If you are not on the Gavilan Gilroy campus, log in with password=25055 |
| La Real Academia Española: The predominant authority on all aspects of classical Spanish, with focus on Spain. Online dictionaries, verb conjugation, and more. Try our online version of RAEdpd, the "Diccionario panhispánico de dudas". Also available on CD for your home computer, click for details. |
| Diccionario del Español Usual en México: A dictionary of the Spanish Language with focus on common usage in Mexico. Access the full text at Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes, or look for specific terms here |
| Spanish Language Resource Center: This site from Houghton Mifflin features links to a variety of authentic materials, including cultural, linguistic, and current media. |
| Study Spanish: A free site with grammar and pronunciation tutorials, vocabulary and verb drills, games, and much more. Great page on How to type Spanish accents. Highly recommended - check it out! |
| LanguageLearningLibrary.org: A free comprehensive guide to learning foreign languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish |
| Spanish Internet keyboard at spanish.typeit.org: lets you enter Spanish characters without Alt codes or special keyboard layouts. Works on any Internet connected computer in the world, so that you can type Spanish characters in any computer lab, Internet cafe, etc. |
| Newspapers online: Huge listing of online newspapers - links to more than 5000 newspapers on the web, searchable by country and by publication. |
| Virtual-Spain: Weblinks in Spanish and English to art, history, literature, music, radio, television, travel, etc... Some commercial ads, but worth a visit. |
| Booksellers -
Libreros Reunidos, S.L.:
order books, CDs, etc. direct from Spain; very low prices,
reasonable shipping, excellent service - if it exists, they'll find it! |
Back to topClass specific links
Span1A, Span1B
| Así Es Textbook website, with chapter-by-chapter web activities, quizzes, and exercises. |
| Note: The Multimedia files to accompany the Textbook and the Workbook/Laboratory Manual are available online in the Gavilan Computer Lab - click the Span1A/B icon in the Spanish Programs folder |
Span2A, Span2B
| De Paseo Textbook website, with chapter-by-chapter summaries, web activities and links, and quizzes. |
| Note: The Multimedia files to accompany the Textbook and the Diario de Actividades are available online in the Gavilan Computer Lab - click the Span2A/B icon in the Spanish Programs folder |
Span12A, Span12B
| Nuevos Mundos Textbook website with chapter-by-chapter links. |
| Diccionarios.com: es un portal de la empresa Spes Editorial, que publica diccionarios, enciclopedias y otras obras de referencia con las marcas Larousse, Harrap's y Vox. |
| España hoy: noticias: un periódico con información extraída de la prensa española, realizado por estudiantes de la Facultad de CC. de la Información de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (Ya no actualizado) |
| Espéculo: revista literaria del Departamento de Filología Española III, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. |
| The Human Languages Page: Buscador disponible en español, inglés, francés, italiano, etc. Información sobre idiomas, diccionarios, servicios de traducción, lecciones de idiomas por el Internet, academias de idiomas. |
| Instituto Cervantes: Centro patrocinado por el gobierno español, ofrece una fuente de información cultural y académica. Provee gratuitamente al público libros, videos, y otros materiales educacionales. |
| Internet Resources for Spain and Portugal: from the University of Houston. |
| La página del idioma español: Contiene literatura del Congreso de la Lengua, ponencias de Cela, García Márquez, Octavio Paz; debates sobre temas de actualidad y sobre la lengua; una selección de diccionarios digitales; gramática; prensa en español, textos seleccionados por el Departamento de Español Urgente de EFE, enlaces y más. |
| Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room |
| Online Dictionaries, Translation Sources, and Language Learning Assistance: Florida International University. |
| Pulso del periodismo: Mecanismos de búsqueda, referencias, datos para negocios, estadísticas, y múltiples otros enlaces útiles para académicos, periodistas, y estudiantes. Florida International University. |
| Toda La Prensa: links to newspapers, magazines, radio and television, with a focus on Spain and Latin America. |
| The Wall Street Journal Américas: Noticias financieras en español. |
| Webspañol: Spanish Language Resources online. |
| Virtual-Spain: Directorio de España, enlaces en español e inglés. |
| Yahoo! En Español: Un buscador (search engine) muy popular. |
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