Resources to help you learn Spanish and learn more about the Spanish World

This is a brief list of sites containing information that may be useful or fun (or both). If you have a favorite site you'd like us to add, send a message to Deana Alonso .

Spanish Language resources:

• Verbix: Spanish verb conjugations - type in an infinitive and hit "GO." You'll get a full conjugation with irregular forms in different colors.
• TECLA - Spanish readings (from newspapers) and exercises from England.

 Hispanic Culture Sites:

• Argentina web sites
• Caribe.com - Caribbean information and resources
• Web sites in Chile
• Chilean links: arts and media - newspapers, publication, film, television
• Costa Rica web sites
• Ecuador web sites
• Internet services/Mexico
• Puntos de partida: web sites in Mexico - a huge index
• La cultura maya- geography, archaeology, and more
• México - lots of information in all areas
• Arte Popular - examples of Mexican folk art in different media
• Arte Contemporáneo - examples of twentieth-century Mexican art
• Nicaragua! - (lots of information plus links to web sites)
• Nuevo PERU Home Page information and web links
• Revista El cuarto del Quenepón Puerto Rican culture and web links
• A Bit of Spain in the Cyberspace - Information about Spain
• WWW Servers in Spain Various web sites in Spain
• SíSpain Lots of information about Spain, plus more web sites
• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage from the Library of Congress
• Web Resources from the University of California in Santa Barbara - more links to Hispanic sites
• Mundo Latino - includes "Rincón literario"
• The Latino Connection - information about Latin American countries and links to web resources
• Latino Web:Hispanic resources
• Latino Page: More Hispanic resources
• Things Latin America - Web Servers from all over Latin America
• Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (links to list of business sites)

 Hispanic Literature Sites:

• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Cervantes site at Johns Hopkins University
• Information related to Cervantes - includes a number of additional links
• InterLetras. Revista de Literatura en Lengua Española
• Quevedo from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, in Spain
• Siglo de Oro - from Quevedo site, a discussion of the Golden Age in Spain
• L.E.M.I.R - literatura española medieval y renacentista (from Valencia)
• Spanish Prosody - a discussion of meter and rhyme in Spanish poetry
• Recursos y ornamentos poéticos - poetic language and rhetorical devices in Spanish
• Comedia Homepage - from the Association for Classical Hispanic Theatre; includes access to dramatic texts from Golden Age Spain
• Teatro de los Siglos de Oro. More information and links for students of the Comedia
• La Revista Española de Filosofia Medieval

 Literary Texts in Spanish:

• Don Quijote: First Electronic Edition- a reproduction of the 1605 edition of Cervantes' Novel
  (Book I). Click here for the first page of the Prologue. Click here for the beginning of Chapter 1
• El juez de los divorcios - an entremés by Cervantes
• Antología de poesía española - lots of poems; includes a section on meter and rhyme
• Cómo se debe presenciarse una comedia - Juan de Zabaleta, in 1660, told readers how to watch a play
• El arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo - Lope de Vega's explanation (in verse) of his dramatic art
• Golden Age Sonnets - a bilingual anthology of Golden Age Spanish Sonnets
• La Conquista de América - Antología de textos
• Literatura Argentina Contemporánea - a wonderful site that includes dozens of texts of modern and contemporary Argentinean literature.

Hispanic Newspapers on the Web:

• El país - from Spain
• Diario ABC Electrónico - Electronic version of the Spanish newspaper. Register by giving your name and a password. Use these whenever you log on. Don't forget your password!
• LA NACION - from Argentina
• ESTRATEGIA, El Diario de Negocios de Chile - business news from Chile
• Diario Electrónico COPESA - weekly news magazine from Chile
• El Mercurio - from Chile
• EL COLOMBIANO - from Colombia
• EL TIEMPO - from Colombia
• EL UNIVERSO - from Ecuador
• Diario LA NACION - from Costa Rica
• EXCELSIOR - A major Mexico City newspaper
• La Jornada en Internet - from Mexico
• R E F O R M A - Edicion Internet - from Mexico
• EL NACIONAL - from Mexico
• EL Siglo - from Panamá
• Noticias EL DIARIO - from Paraguay
• EL COMERCIO - from Perú
• EL OBSERVADOR - from Uruguay
• El Universal - from Venezuela
• EL OBSERVADOR - from Uruguay

Other Interesting Sites:

• Electronic Exhibits from the Library of Congress - all kinds of information and images from library exhibits
• The English Server - lots of stuff from the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University
• The Web Museum -- gorgeous images, brought to you by the Louvre (but they take time to load)
• Postcards - send and receive postcards here (from M.I.T.)
• Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities - major e-text site
• Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies - from the University of Toronto
• Interscripta at GWU - Medieval studies site
• Encyclopedia Mythica - everything you wanted to know (almost) about world mythologies.