Spanish Dictionaries
- Your Dictionary – Helpful for quick references and vocabulary
- Word Reference Online Dictionary – Fast access that is accurate. Easy to navigate and understand
- Spanish Dict – This website offers a dictionary, translator, quizzes, and vocab and grammar help.
- Free Dictionaries Project
Grammar
- StudySpanish – An in depth guide for Spanish grammar
- Verbix: Verb Conjugatiobns and Grammar – Type a verb and get all types of conjugations for it
- Spanish Grammar – A comprehensive website with a nice user interface for learning Spanish grammar
- Business Spanish – A quick way to learn formal Spanish if you’re patient enough with the website’s user interface
- Quia Spanish Grammar Through Games – Learn Spanish grammar by taking quizzes
Podcasts/ Listening Practice
- Coffee Break Spanish – This website provides beginner-intermediate conversations and scenarios that are both realistic and informative. From introducing yourself to people to a conversation about traveling, along with more complicated topics, this website is very exciting.
- Duolingo Podcast – “True stories for English speakers learning Spanish. From the makers of Duolingo, the most popular language-learning app, comes a new podcast that delivers fascinating real-life stories in easy-to-understand Spanish with English narration. These are not language lessons; they’re life lessons through language.” For beginners to intermediate level learners
- Conjugemos Tube – Great videos that display real conversations
- Spanish Listening – A website where you can select conversations on various topics spoken by speakers from every Spanish speaking country
Speaking Practice
- Talk abroad – Conversation practice with native speakers
- Fluencia – Students can use their Ramapo emails to access this efficient way of learning how to speak Spanish and communicate themselves effectively.
Other Resources
- Duolingo – easy to access on-the-go, free, and accurate. Android and iOS applications available
- La musica – This website focuses on the arts and media: from news to music to success stories, this website connects with Spanish-speakers and exposes Latin-X and Hispanic culture to non-Spanish speakers through a modern perspective. I found it intriguing because it’s unlike any other websites that I’ve found and puts a fun, engaging twist on learning a language.
- Butterfly Spanish – An engaging YouTube channel to learn basic Spanish
- Latin American Network Information Center – A portal for Latin American Studies
Professional Organizations
- American Association for Applied Linguistics
- American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
- American Comparative Literature Association
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium
- Foreign Language Teaching Forum
- Latin American Studies Association
- Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
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