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Postby rdearman » Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:00 pm

Courses

50 Languages https://www.50languages.com
book2 https://www.goethe-verlag.com/book2/

FSI/DLI
https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu
http://www.fsi-language-courses.net/fsi-spanish-language-courses/

GLOSS https://gloss.dliflc.edu/

Spanish Grammar in Context http://grammar.spanishintexas.org/
Destinos http://learner.org/series/destinos/index.html
https://www.livelingua.com/project/fsi/Spanish/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
http://www.vocabulix.com/online/Learn/Languages
https://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/siteindex.php
http://www.todo-claro.com/e_index.php
http://studyspanish.com/learn-spanish-free
http://personal.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/

Pronunciation/Listening
Forvo http://forvo.com/languages/es/
Sounds of Speech
http://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/
Dialectos http://dialectos.osu.edu/search/default.cfm
Localingual https://localingual.com/
Spanish phone conversation practice http://phone.dliflc.edu/default_spanish.asp
Speech Repository
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sr/
Audio-Lingua - a collaborative bank of authentic audio resources, recorded by native speakers
http://www.audio-lingua.eu/?lang=en
Backbone multilingual corpus
English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Turkish
Audio and transcripts.
http://projects.ael.uni-tuebingen.de/backbone/moodle/
ListeningPractice.org http://listeningpractice.org/
Currently, there are 47.000 exercises and 62 texts on the site in 15 languages (see them below) using native recordings from Tatoeba.org and Librivox.org.
Audiria.com - Aprende español con audiotextos gratuitos http://www.audiria.com/capitulos.php

Audiobooks
http://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2789
See below for other audio resources

Ebooks/Reading
http://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2901
Spanish and French book recommendations
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5894

Testing/placement tests
(Also see below)
Dialang http://dialangweb.lancaster.ac.uk/
Instituto Cervantes: http://ave.cervantes.es/prueba_nivel/re ... cacion.php
Vocabulary
Prueba de vocabulario
¿Cuántas palabras del español conoces?
http://vocabulario.bcbl.eu/
"Test your receptive and productive vocabulary in different languages. What percentage of the 5000 most frequent words have you mastered?
http://www.itt-leipzig.de/static/startseiteeng.html
Dele Group https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =26&t=5375

Other
Netflix ideas
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 19&t=7388&
"Official" Telenovela and Series (in Spanish) Reviews and Recommendations
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 190#p95966
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Re: Spanish resources

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Re: Spanish resources

Postby reineke » Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:02 pm

Podcasts/Radio/Audio

Ivoox: http://www.ivoox.com/
Radio Ambulante Spanish radio broadcasts on a wide variety of subjects, with transcripts. http://radioambulante.org/en/
Veinte mundos (audio + transcripts) http://www.veintemundos.com/en/learn-spanish/read-and-listen/
La Rosa de los Vientos
http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-rosa-vientos_sq_f11254_1.html
Economia http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-podcast-ec ... 512_1.html
Ciencias http://cienciaes.com/podcasts/
Histocast (history) http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-histocast_ ... 047_1.html
Parroquia...(humor) http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-parroquia_sq_f11091_1.html
Siglo 21 (music) http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-siglo-21_sq_f11733_1.html
Radio Educacion (podcasts) http://www.e-radio.edu.mx/

Learner podcasts
http://www.audiria.com/index.php
https://www.espanolistos.com
https://www.spanishpodcast.net/listado-episodios/
http://www.lingus.tv

Radio
Radio Garden (Brun Ungle)
http://radio.garden/live/
Tunein radio http://tunein.com
RTVE http://www.rtve.es/m/alacarta/rne/
http://multilingualbooks.com/online-radio-spanish.html
Zona Latina http://www.zonalatina.com/Radio.htm
A list of 600 radio language radio stations categorized by country. Some broken links.
http://www.e-spanyol.hu/en/radio.php

Audio resources

Speech Repository
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sr/
Radio Garden (Brun Ungle)
http://radio.garden/live/
Audio-Lingua - a collaborative bank of authentic audio resources, recorded by native speakers
http://www.audio-lingua.eu/?lang=en
Backbone multilingual corpus
English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Turkish
Audio and transcripts.
Backbone multilingual corpus
English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Turkish
Audio and transcripts.
http://projects.ael.uni-tuebingen.de/backbone/moodle/
ListeningPractice.org http://listeningpractice.org/
Currently, there are 47.000 exercises and 62 texts on the site in 15 languages (see them below) using native recordings from Tatoeba.org and Librivox.org.

Audiria.com - Aprende español con audiotextos gratuitos http://www.audiria.com/capitulos.php
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Re: Spanish resources

Postby reineke » Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:02 pm

Newspapers/Magazines
http://newspapermap.com/
http://elpais.com/
http://www.elmundotoday.com/
http://www.cnnenespanol.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news
http://www.todalaprensa.com
http://www.prensaescrita.com
Clarín (Argentina) http://www.clarin.com/
La Nación (Argentina) http://www.lanacion.com
Bolivia.com (Bolivia) http://www.bolivia.com
La Razón (Bolivia) http://www.la-razon.com
Los Tiempos (Bolivia) http://lostiempos.com
El Mercurio (Chile) http://diario.elmercurio.com
El Tiempo (Colombia) http://www.eltiempo.com/
La Nación (Costa Rica) http://www.nacion.com/
Cubanet (Cuba) http://www.cubanet.org
Granma (Cuba) http://www.granma.cu/
El Comercio (Ecuador) http://www.elcomercio.com
El Universo (Ecuador) http://eluniverso.com
El Diario de Hoy (El Salvador) http://www.elsalvador.com
El Faro (El Salvador) http://www.elfaro.net/es/
El País (España) http://elpais.es
Prensa Libre (Guatemala) http://www.prensalibre.com
El País Guinea Ecuatorial (Guinea Ecuatorial y España) http://elpais.com/tag/guinea_ecuatorial/a
La Prensa (Honduras) http://www.laprensahn.com
La Opinión (Los Angeles, CA) http://laopinion.com/
La Jornada (México) http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/
Excelsior (México) http://www.excelsior.com.mx/

Magazines
Ambientico, Costa Rican http://www.ambientico.una.ac.cr/
Art Nexus, Colombian http://www.universes-in-universe.de//ar ... spanol.htm
Cambio 16, Spanish http://www.cambio16.com
Caretas, Peruvian http://www.caretas.com.pe/Main.asp
Contratiempo, Argentine http://www.revistacontratiempo.com.ar/
Envio, Nicaraguan http://www.envio.org.ni/index.es
Etiqueta Negra, Peruvian http://www.etiquetanegra.com.pe/
Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica http://fal.itam.mx/FAE/
Gatopardo, Colombian/Mexican http://www.gatopardo.com/
El Gráfico: Argentine, the "Bible of Sports": http://www.elgrafico.com.ar/
Investigación y Ciencia, Spanish science magazine: http://www.investigacionyciencia.es
Letras Libres, Mexican http://www.letraslibres.com/
Malpensante, Colombian literary magazine: http://www.elmalpensante.com/
Mama-Coca, Colombian http://www.mamacoca.org/
Nueva Sociedad http://www.nuso.org/
Proceso, Mexican left-wing political magazine: http://www.proceso.com.mx/
Qué Pasa, Chilean http://www.quepasa.cl/
Quehacer, Peruvian http://www.desco.org.pe/quehacer/izquierda
Todo es historia, Argentine http://www.todoeshistoria.com.ar/
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Re: Spanish resources

Postby reineke » Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:09 pm

Placement Tests
Dialang
http://dialangweb.lancaster.ac.uk/
Online Diagnostic Assessment (ODA) System http://oda.dliflc.edu
Online Diagnostic Assessment is a tool developed by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) to help you, the foreign language learner, evaluate and manage your learning.
Instituto Cervantes: http://ave.cervantes.es/prueba_nivel/registro/test_de_clasificacion.php
don Quijote http://www.donquijote.org/spanishlanguage/test/
Vocabulary
Prueba de vocabulario
¿Cuántas palabras del español conoces?
http://vocabulario.bcbl.eu/
"Test your receptive and productive vocabulary in different languages. What percentage of the 5000 most frequent words have you mastered?
http://www.itt-leipzig.de/static/startseiteeng.html

AATSP past tests https://www.nationalspanishexam.org/index.php/exam-preparation/past-examinations
Practice tests in several languages
https://www.50languages.com/tests/
http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/

Other tests
Kwiziq https://www.kwiziq.com
Transparent. com
https://www.transparent.com/language-re ... tests.html
http://www.languagecoursesuk.co.uk/language-level-test/
http://www.sprachcaffe.com/espanol/test ... online.htm
https://www.alpadia.com/es/pruebas-online.htm
https://www.esl-idiomas.com/es/adultos/ ... /index.htm
http://www.transparent.com/language-res ... uages.html
(Choose your language and find your way around to the online proficiency test under "Fun Stuff")
http://www.cambridgeinstitute.net/en/te ... -espanol-i

http://www.spanish-test.net/index.htm
http://oxfordhousebcn.com/niveles/prueb ... astellano/
http://www.auladiez.com/testdenivel/

Dele Group https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =26&t=5375

Dichos populares

Detailed. Good reading.
http://www.ciudad-real.es/varios/dichos/a.php

Refranes y dichos
http://www.donquijote.org/lengua-espanola/refranes/

Dichos Pop.
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-vi ... cado/html/

Wikipedia
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor ... _populares

Citas y proverbios
http://www.citasyproverbios.com/index.html

Teacher resources
AATSP http://www.aatsp.org/
TES/Conti (some free)https://www.tes.com/member/gianfrancoconti1966
http://spanish4teachers.org/

Children's websites
http://onlinefreespanish.com/
https://rockalingua.com/
http://pbskids.org/noah/
https://www.lanasa.net
Noticias nacionales de España para niños y niñas actualizadas por el periódico infantil El Gancho.
http://www.periodicoelgancho.com
http://www.digitaldialects.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4cxLWjhLYclQSEeL03eZ2Q
http://www.mundoprimaria.com/
http://www.cuentosinteractivos.org/
http://www.cuentosinfantilesadormir.com/
http://www.cuentosparachicos.com/index.htm
https://www.youtube.com/user/PlanetaJuniorTV
Argentinian

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4cxLW ... SEeL03eZ2Q
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Re: Spanish resources

Postby jsega » Wed Feb 15, 2017 4:28 pm

The creator of the program ''Clozemaster'' provided his frequency list for Spanish when asked on reddit (among a couple others). I figured it may be useful to others.

http://pastebin.com/3GF89XF1

Let me know if this link dies out, I have it saved.

In one of his replies he explains basically how he creates these lists.

''......The frequency lists used for most languages are primarily from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktiona ... ency_lists like u/tomavagyok mentioned, modified in an attempt to remove names, places, garbage characters, etc........''
-Mike , /u/wakawakafoobar on reddit, creator of Clozemaster
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Re: Spanish resources

Postby reineke » Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:49 pm

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Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) - Listado de frecuencias
http://corpus.rae.es/lfrecuencias.html

10000 formas más frecuentes
http://corpus.rae.es/frec/10000_formas.TXT


Subtitle word frequencies for Spanish: SUBTLEX-ESP
http://crr.ugent.be/archives/679
Excel file:
http://crr.ugent.be/papers/SUBTLEX-ESP.zip

DGT-Translation Memory
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-te ... ion-memory
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Re: Spanish resources

Postby Seneca » Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:55 pm

I came across this very nicely formatted bilingual reader for A Study in Scarlet/Estudio en Escarlata
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Re: Spanish resources

Postby reineke » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:12 pm

Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quijote de la Mancha. Edicion RAE / Don Quixote de la Mancha. RAE (Real Academia Espanola) (Spanish Edition)

...un glosario formado por siete mil palabras, locuciones, frases proverbiales y refranes, explicados según el significado preciso que tienen en el texto cervantino.

Audio book

Don Quijote
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/el ... mancha--0/
http://www.educaragon.org/arboles/arbol ... cion=A1A68

Don Quijote: Legacy Edition (Cervantes & Co.) (Spanish Edition) (European Masterpieces, Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics)

This is a Spanish edition of Don Quijote designed for English-speaking students. Both parts, Parts 1 and 2, of Don Quijote are included in this single volume. This Legacy edition is edited by Tom Lathrop. Until now, our students have had to use editions published in Spain for Spaniards. Vocabulary and syntactic structures that are difficult (or impossible) for our students are usually not annotated in those editions. Cultural information which educated Spanish speakers already know, but our students simply do not, is equally not annotated. Our students have thus been deprived of much of what they need to know in order to understand the text. To help solve the vocabulary problem, Lathrop has included 10,459 vocabulary glosses in the margin opposite the line where the Spanish word to be defined appears. If too many words need to be put in the margin, phrases are translated in footnotes. In all, there are 3,742 footnotes. These also deal with cultural items, historical, geographical, biblical, mythological, textual references, and all kinds of other information. Footnotes will not offer interpretations: that is for instructors and their students to figure out.

Don Quijote Dictionary (Spanish Edition) (Cervantes & Co.)

The Legacy Edition: This Dictionary has 7800 entries and 12,000 definitions. It lists all words that students ordinarily shouldn't be expected to know (abadejo codfish; zaquizamí garret), and some that maybe they should know but don't (padecer to suffer; raposa fox), and sometimes it gives definitions for more common words, just in case (manera way; nobleza nobility).

Selections from Don Quixote: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish)
Presented in the original Spanish, with excellent new literal English translations on facing pages, the passages have been carefully selected to capture the wonderful flavor and romance of the complete work.

Spanish modernization

Andrés Trapiello
Don Quijote de la Mancha: Puesto en castellano actual...
Andrés Trapiello «traduce» el Quijote al castellano actual
http://www.abc.es/cultura/libros/201503 ... 01355.html

15 recursos para acercar El Quijote a los alumnos (iguanamon)
https://www.educaciontrespuntocero.com/ ... 17823.html
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