Spanish & Portuguese
Portuguese
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Travessia 1: A Portuguese Language Textbook Program | |
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"Com licença!": Brazilian Portuguese for Spanish Speakers | |
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Pronouncing Brazilian Portuguese | |
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Spanish
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Atando cabos: Curso intermedio de español (Second Edition) | |
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Camino oral: fonética, fonología y práctica de los sonidos del español (Second Edition) | |
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Mundo 21 (Third Edition) | |
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¿Sabías que...? Beginning Spanish (Fourth Edition) |
On-Line Resources
- www.yourdictionary.com. Numerous dictionaries can be found on-line. These include Spanish-English, English-Spanish, and specialty dictionaries on fields as diverse as wine, firearms, perfume, and textiles. This is the best place to look for those obscure words that you cannot find in your dictionary. See what you can find:
- Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish. Destinos teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish. This telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers and introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. Understanding of Spanish and appreciation of many Hispanic cultures increase as students become absorbed in the mysterious and entertaining story. Closed captioning in Spanish can be used as a teaching and literacy resource. The series is also appropriate for teacher professional development.
- Phonetics Flash Animation Project at the University of Iowa. This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, German, and Spanish. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and a video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language. There is also an interactive diagram of articulatory anatomy.
- Dialectoteca del Español Project at the University of Iowa is an innovative way to experience the diversity of Spanish pronunciation. It is an audiovisual library, which uses speech samples from a wide variety of native speakers to document the most representative patterns in the pronunciation of modern spoken Spanish. The site also includes descriptions of the factors that cause allophonic variation, maps that identify the main dialectal regions, orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of the interviews, descriptions of the main dialectal features, and exercises that allow users to check their ability to recognize Spanish dialects based on their phonetic properties.
