Spanish Language resources

Here’s what I use:

• WordReference – multilingual dictionary, native speaker forums
• Real Academia Española – for Spanish speakers, this dictionary is the final word on standard Spanish vocab and usage,
• Verbix – online conjugator.  Input a tennis shoe, and it will conjugate it for you.
• Spanish Verb Tense Maps:
  • Present tense map
  • Preterit tense map
  • Imperfect Tense map
• Subjunctive Flow Charts:
  • Funky Fresh Flow Chart (subjunctive tenses in the noun clauses)
  • Kilpatrick Flow Chart (subjunctive tenses in adverbial or adjectival clauses)
• Spanish Class Videos – my YouTube playlist of songs my students are allowed to use in the lipdub project.
• Spanish Keyboard - for those of us that switch between keyboard IMEs to get our typing done.
• Type Spanish diacritics - a poster I made for students who need a quick reference for typing in MS Word or on a Mac, without changing their keyboard IME.
• Language Guide’s Spanish pages – a free mouse-over vocab site.

Blogs I read:

• Vocabat - Colombian Spanish as Katie hears it.
• My Spanish Notes - former sPod listener Rodney finds interesting expressions and posts them in his blog, to my delight.
• “¡Qué boquita!” No seas pelangoche. - Rodney strikes again, this time with dirty words.

My work:

• Q & A Spanish – a labor of love, distributed graciously by the Radio Lingua Network.  Nayheli and I answer listener questions about Spanish.  (2011 – present)
• SpanishPod – the highlight of my media career so far; we created slick podcasts, entertaining videos, and an engaging and supportive community.  In the end I had to leave, because I saw the company was going nowhere (and taking me with it).  But our product was good, at least!
• spanishpod101 – I don’t have a lot of good things to say about this podcast, except that it got me the hell out of China, and I got to live in Manhattan for a year.  Fernando and I did good work under the circumstances, but I just cannot recommend the service to people learning Spanish… the academic integrity of the service before I arrived was just awful.  They’re still publishing now, and I for all I know the new people may have their act together.  The site itself, though, is a case study in irritating.  I can’t even bear to link to it.