Authentic Audio & Video Resources:
- ABC.es News about Spain and world news stories in Spanish
- AlbaLearning.com: Free Spanish audiobooks, videobooks & books
- Audiria.com: Free Spanish podcasts, videos, transcripts, exercises & vocabulary
- Batanga.com/es/ This site contains a variety of free Latin music, radio stations and videos. La musica latina vive aquí.
- BBC Languages Spanish: www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/ Spanish print resources, a self-exam of level of Spanish, and a Spanish video series to be used for learning Spanish.
- BBC Mundo: www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ BBC news in Spanish
- CNN en Español: www.cnn.com/espanol/ CNN news in Spanish
- Ejercicios en español www.ver-taal.com/index.htm Ejercicios de español para extranjeros incluso vocabulario, gramática, canciones, y ejercicios de escuchar
- Español en Vivo: DVD & text. Español en Vivo emphasizes the richness of Hispanic culture and the variations of authentic spoken Spanish through unrehearsed interviews with more than twenty native Spanish speakers. Topics include housing, family, immigration, politics, and cultural traditions.
- Las Voces de las Mujeres de Xelajú http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/voces/ 20 interviews of Guatemalan women answering a series of questions. Comes with a script of activities and can be used at all levels as the repetition serves to reinforce vocabulary.
- Lenguajero.com Lenguajero is a free language learning community where people meet to practice conversational Spanish and English. Write in Spanish and get corrections from native Spanish-speakers.
- Multikultura-Español www.multikultura.org.uk/spanish/spanish.php This site contains texts, audios, and grammar activities for 3 levels.
- Newsinslowspanish.com Emphasizes all aspects of language learning from listening comprehension, rapid vocabulary expansion, exposure to Spanish grammar and common idiomatic expressions, to pronunciation practice and interactive grammar exercises. Discusses weekly news, Spanish grammar, Spanish expressions and much more in simplified Spanish at a slow pace.
- Notes in Spanish: www.notesinspanish.com Learn Spanish with free podcast audio conversations from Spain.
- Nuevos Horizontes www.nuevoshorizontes.org The web site containts two Spanish language radio shows that are free of charge. Each program is about current events. Nuevos Horizontes provides information that is relevant to the current needs of the Hispanic population living in the U.S. and Latin America and meets their social, cultural and educational expectations.
- Radio ONU Noticias: (United Nations Radio en español) www.unmultimedia.org/radio/spanish/features/4.html United Nations Radio has features stories about politics, economics, health and science, society, the environment, and arts and culture. These stories can be listened to or downloaded and a transcript can be printed out as well.
- SCOLA www.scola.org Each SCOLA Insta-Lesson consists of a video and audio clip of a segment of native language news broadcasts that have been transcribed and translated. The online lesson format allows you to watch the video playback while viewing a transcript, translation, quiz or vocabulary window. Additionally, the lesson text is available in a convenient PDF format for viewing online or downloading for later study.
- Spanish Audio Gazette http://lab.chass.utoronto.ca/rescentre/spanish/index.html Spanish listening exercises with text that comes from various regions of the Spanish-speaking world.
- SpanishPod: Award winning Spanish audio lessons and study tools.
- Spanish NewsBites www.spanishnewsbites.net Free Spanish language news stories for Spanish language learners, designed to help you learn Spanish at the same time as you learn about what's happening RIGHT NOW throughout Spain and Latin America.
- Spanish Proficiency Exercises www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/index.html A compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks. The objective of the exercises is to provide students of Spanish with the necessary tools to be able to talk about the same topics in Spanish.
- Think Spanish www.thinkspanish.com An audio language magazine including diverse topics of authentic language samples. Includes integration of listening, reading, vocabulary and grammar.
- Univisión.com: Univisión TV station website contains articles, videoclips and audioclips about an enormous variety of items.
- Voz Latina Radio: www.vozlatinaradio.org/radio-historia.php 43 episodes that are 30 minutes in length. A dynamic, provocative, award-winning series, La Historia de Quién Soy ("The Story of Who I Am"), depicts the Cervantes family: Rafael and Luisa and their teenage children, Gloria and Miguel. It is the clash of two cultures, the old and the new. How can the Cervantes’ find the best of both worlds?
- Yabla.com: A fun, interactive, subscription website with up-to-date video clips of native speakers. Clips span the entire Spanish-speaking world and allow teachers to choose from many regional variations in accents and pronunciation. Cloze activities and games are also featured.
- Zambombazo Fun Spanish Worksheets zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/ Fun Spanish worksheets & cross-curricular enrichment activities with music & pop culture.
- ARTEHISTORIA www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/ The Castille y León government page of Spanish art and culture.
- AulaDiez www.auladiez.com/testdenivel/testdenivel.html Test your level of Spanish.
- Best Spanish Websites www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish3.html
- Bowdoin: concise explanations of the essentials of Spanish grammar
- Conjuguemos: an online workbook for Spanish students. The site stores a large amount of practice activities for verbs, vocabulary and grammar.
- www.donquijote.org Spanish language resources to enhance your learning, including lessons, verb conjugator, dictionary, level tests, games, jokes, and lyrics.
- Foreign Language jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/foreignlang.html This site contains several Spanish PowerPoint presentations.
- Foreign Language News and Newspapers-Spanish libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=146063&sid=1247903 Research guides at MIT Libraries
- Grammar Notes www.drlemon.com/Grammar101.html Educational Spanish grammar reference material: vocabulary, grammar basics, and verbs. Website includes activities for practice and links to more resources.
- Languages Online atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/hotpotatoes/ Interactive Spanish language exercises
- Learn Spanish Online www.spaleon.com Spanish verb conjugation trainer
- Lingolex.com/spanish.htm This site contains some grammar and vocabulary tutorials.
- Mexico Celebrates Life/Day of the Dead in Mexico www.dayofthedead.com/ This site contains a wide variety of resources for Day of the Dead.
- myHq www.myhq.com/public/v/a/vanderwerken/ links to other sites for vocabulary review.
- PrensaEscrita.com: Spanish daily newspapers from around the world.
- Prezi.com: Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery.
- Quizlet.com: Fun & interactive flashcards and study games for learning vocabulary. Great for studying NSE vocabulary!
- Spanish Language & Culture www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php
- Spanish Quizzes & Spanish Trivia--Fun Trivia www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/world/languages/spanish.html
- Spanish.typeit.org/ This site contains an online Spanish keyboard.
- SparkEnthusiasm.com You are invited to explore all of the Spanish videos, links, PowerPoint presentations, ideas, and resources that this site has to offer.
- StudySpanish.com Free Spanish translator and tutorials for pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, verbs, culture and idioms.
- Transparent Language www.learn-spanish-language-software.com/ From the Spanish alphabet and Spanish grammar to conversational Spanish and correct Spanish pronunciation, this special site dedicated to the Spanish language includes information about language, culture, and Spanish software products to help you satisfy your curiosity about all things Spanish. It also has a Spanish proficiency test.
- Verbix.com: Verbix is an independent non-profit organization that aims to promote and protect linguistic diversity. This site contains verb conjugations for hundreds of languages.
- VoiceThread.com: A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, docs, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments using voice (mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via webcam). Share a VoiceThread for others to comment too.
- Voki.com Create speaking avatars and use them as a learning tool to motivate students to participate and improve message comprehension.
- WordChamp.com A language learning network that includes flashcards, vocabulary and grammar drills. *A really cool resource is the Web Reader tool which you can even download.
- Wordle.net: Use to generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and colors. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out or save them to the Wordle gallery to share.
- WorldAtlas.com is an educational resource for world maps, flags, currencies, and in-depth geographical information.
- Spanishdict.com This site offers flaschcards, translation, dictionary, reference tools, etc.
- WordMagicsoft.com This site offers a dictionary & translator.
- WordReference.com This site offers the most comprehensive online language dictionary.