• Instituto Cervantes exists to promote the Spanish language; their website includes plenty of material for students and teachers of Spanish, plus up-to-date information about cultural events.
• Yahoo Telemundo - Spanish-language version of the famous web directory, or try Yahoo España or Yahoo México for a more country-specific view.

News & media on-line

• El Mundo is one of Spain's most popular newspapers, which also has La Revista on-line, its Sunday supplement with a good range of full-text articles.
• El País is another popular daily.
• El Periódico - Catalunyan daily paper (in Castillian).
• ABC Electrónico - right-leaning daily news from Spain.
• Latin American countries are also well-represented; see for example La Jornada from Mexico, Clarín from Argentina, El Tiempo from Colombia, El Mercurio from Chile and Puerto Rico's Televicentro news summaries.
• Google Noticias España allows you to search and browse hundreds of continuously updated news sources.
• TVE Internacional television schedules - as seen in the Language Learning Centre. EuroTV carry more concise schedules.
• Canal13 from Chile offers live TV on the internet.
• Spanish Radio Stations on the Internet - lots of Spanish-language radio stations which you can listen to live online.
• BBC Mundo is the Spanish-language website of the BBC World Service - lots of features to read and hear in RealAudio, plus a live feed.

Teaching resources

• Tecla is a magazine (including exercises) written for learners and teachers of Spanish, with a searchable subject index of past issues. It is produced monthly during term-time by the Spanish Embassy in the UK.
• diccionarios.com provides access to dictionaries from Vox, including their English<->Spanish offering.
• Tomísimo is an English-Spanish bilingual learners' dictionary that makes finding words easy by automatically searching in both languages.
• Phonetics: The Sounds of Spanish - animated articulatory diagrams from the University of Iowa (requires Flash 7 or above).
• Viaje al pasado: los aztecas - el perfecto simple y el imperfecto en la narración y la descripción. Attractive interactive multimedia site providing a broad context for all verb forms. Includes animations which explain use of verb forms, 45 exercises and two adventure games in pre-Hispanic Mexico.
• The Spanish CALL Project has lots of exercises, grammar and links. See also Ejercicios de lengua española - a collection of on-line grammar exercises from Juan Ramón de Arana.
• comunicativo.net - free resources for teachers of Spanish. Communication activities, lesson plans, self correcting grammar exercises, worksheets, chat and so on.
• Comp-jugador performs on-line conjugations of about 10,000 Spanish verbs.
• Learn Spanish - a free online tutorial.
• Spanish Food Dictionary
• MundoHispano is a MOO for learners of Spanish - it's a multi-user interactive system, a virtual environment where students can practice their Spanish while sharing ideas and experiences with other Spanish speakers and learners. Click here to take the plunge (beware - your Spanish will need to be at least intermediate level!).
  • What is a MOO? Have a look at The Purpose of MOOs for more details.

Literature

• Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - a comprehensive virtual library for Hispanic Studies, offering electronic editions of thousands of works spanning many centuries. This is a very valuable tool for students of Spanish.
• Proyecto Sherezade has contemporary short stories in Spanish by authors from all over the world, plus vocabulary and grammar exercises, comprehension questions etc.
• Literatura Argentina Contemporánea - extensive details and excerpts of many Argentinian authors.

Sources for further research...

• Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) at the University of Texas is a comprehensive directory of Latin American web resources organised by country and by subject.
• Universia.net has lots of well-presented information on Hispanic higher education.
• Linred - Lingüística en la Red is an Internet journal on theoretical and applied linguistics, with a slant towards issues in Spanish as a Foreign Language.
• About.com Guide to Spanish Language - original articles, lessons, exercises and lots of links, plus bulletin board and chat room.
• Sí, Spain - from the Spanish Embassy in Ottowa, Canada, covering Spain's current affairs, its historical, linguistic and cultural development.