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Internet
resources
[
UA
resources ] - [ Media
] - [ Hispanic Research
] - [ Dictionaries etc.
]
At
The University of Akron:
- The
Department
of Modern Languages has a home page where
you can find out about our programs, our faculty, etc.
- A
series of supplementary grammar explanations and exercises for Spanish
101 is now available online. Click
here to connect to this resource. (new!)
- The
department's Language
Resource Center (formerly the "language
lab") has some tutorials, some copies of the Dos mundos
CD-ROM, a great Spanish word processing program ("Atajo")
with vocabulary and verb conjugations. You can find information
about the LRC and useful links
at the website but you must go there in person to use the programs
on the computers there (Olin 375).
- Go
to the Registrar's
Office to find out about registration
dates, your grades,etc. Look up a course in the Schedule
of Classes to find out what textbook will
be used.
To
read and listen to Spanish:
- Read
the news in Spanish at CNN
en espaņol, the Spanish edition of the
Miami Herald, El Nuevo
Herald, or any of hundreds of other Spanish
language online newspapers and magazines which you will find indexed
in Mundo Latino's Kiosco
de prensa (newsstand); select a country
and click LEER to get links for that country.
- Listen
to the news (or music) in Spanish. First you'll need to download
and install the free RealPlayer.
CNN has news broadcasts in Spanish. Go to CNN
Interactive, scroll all the way down and
click on Audioselect.
After the new page loads click on the link next to "CNN en
espaņol" in the column under "Real."
- To find
radio stations which broadcast on the Internet go to The
MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet.
Clicking on the links there will take you to a station's home page.
Then look for a link which says something like "Live audio,"
"En vivo," "Escucha," or "Oiga." If
you are asked whether to open the file or save it click on "Open."
To
do research in Spanish or on Hispanic topics:
- Find
Websites throughout the Spanish-speaking world, in Spanish, at the
Spanish version of Yahoo! At Yahoo!'s
homepage scroll down to "World Yahoo's"
and click on "Spanish" or go directly to Yahoo!
en espaņol.
- To
do research about Spanish-speaking countries you can go to the Regional
category in Yahoo!'s index and then to Countries
and select Spain or any other country that interests you. Or from
Regional go to Regions
and then to Latin America. The premier site for research about
Latin America is the University of Texas Latin American Research
Information Network (LANIC).
Dictionaries
and lists of links to other resources:
Two
sources for on-line dictionaries, in Spanish and many other languages,
are:
A
Web of On-line Dictionaries and
On-line Language
Dictionaries and Translators.
I
won't extend this list any further. Many other foreign language departments
and teaching organizations have already published lists of favorite
sites on the Web. Two of the best are:
Ohio
University's CALL lab and
FL
Teach WWW Resources. The
latter is an organization for language teachers but much of the information
is very useful for learners too. The following sites are also worth
exploring: Language
Resources on the WWW
University
of Toledo Foreign Languages Bookmarks
Coleman's
Website for Hispanists. Sheryl
Coleman is a former director of our LRC. Those studying Spanish with
Dos mundos might be interested in checking out McGraw-Hill's
Dos
mundos website. Students in 202 can find Internet
links for topics in each chapter at the En
contacto website.
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