Spanish Learning Resources: Collection of free internet resources, free translation dictionary programs & useful tools suited for second language students, teachers and professionals

Free Spanish to English Translation:

• - Free online dictionaries

• - Free online Spanish English Translators

• - Free Translation software
  (Freeware language translation tools)

• - Selected resources related to the Spanish language

• - Free Multilingual Translation resources: Tools to translate texts, full paragraphs, phrases and words from and into practically any language of the world are included in this list.
  

Real Academia de la Lengua Española. Everything about the Spanish language. You can clear up all doubts with an effective service provided by “real” persons. Academic news, resources of investigation, dictionaries, and data bank.

Diccionarios.com. Spanish translation. Spanish online dictionary, ideological dictionary, conjugation of verbs, seeker of synonyms and antonyms, and free online translators: Spanish - English - French - German - Catalan.

Cambridge dictionary online: online activities and worksheets for teachers and students of English. free Online English Dictionaries (International English, American English, Spanish).

Dictionary elmundo.es: Spanish translation. Choose an online dictionary:

• Dictionary of the Spanish Language

• Dictionaries of synonyms and of antonyms

• Translations from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish

• Translations Spanish - French, French - Spanish

• An interesting dictionary of medicine (medical terms in Spanish)

Foreignword.com. It allows looking everything up with the help of 265 different online dictionaries for 73 languages available on the Internet (bilingual dictionaries, monolingual dictionaries, specializing dictionaries, technical dictionaries ...). Free translation software for download. Forum, interesting articles, news, and a rich collection of language information and resources.

Freedict.com online Spanish English dictionary - Free online Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionary. It's possible to choose exact translation and the number of results displayed. Additionally Freedict.com also offers bidirectional dictionaries from and to English to African, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portugese, Russian, Swahili, and Swedish.

Reverso online translation free service. Good online service for translating words, texts, or web pages. You can choose any of the following language translations:

• Spanish – English, English - Spanish

• Spanish - French, French - Spanish

• French – English, English - French

• English- German, German - English

• French - German, German - French

The interface consists of two windows. After you wrote the text or inserted it from the intermediate file, you have to mark the cabin corresponding to the language into which you want to have the text translated and the translations appears in the right window almost in a split of a second. The translator is very fast and complete, and allows to translate slightly common words, or slang, where other automated translators fail.

Excite UK - Translations into Spanish .Dictionary. The free online translation service offered by Babylon (United Kingdom). At this site it is possible to choose one dictionary or to use all. Among the results, information is provided by the British encyclopedia, besides the translation to various languages and numerous glossaries.

Online free translations by means of SYSTRAN dictionaries: Dictionary. The programs of SYSTRAN's professional translation are of the most prestigious on the market. In this Web it is possible to obtain translations of texts completely gratis: From English to Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and Korean and the other way around.

Traducegratis.com. Marvelous portal specializing in free resources for language translation. From this Web it is possible to find practically any dictionary or language translation service.

EuroDicautom. Free online translation service containing the languages of the European Union.

On web translation. Web site translator and dictionary. Free translation service of texts and web sites. Useful for users and Web site developers (Webmasters).

Freetranslation.com: Text Translation. - Language pairs:

• - English to German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish.

• - German and French to English and some other languages translation.

You can type in any Web address, to receive nearly instantly display of the translation.

Altavista Babel Fish Translation service: Instant translation of any Web page or texts (up to 150 words). Altavista has a click button for the translation of Web pages. Once in the translation page, you can type in any Web address, to receive instant display of the translation.

SYSTRANBox Web pages and text translation. - Language pairs: English to: German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Translation service related to voila.fr. Language pairs combinations between English, German, French, Spanish, Russian. Not file size limit for text translation.

Foreingworld.com. - Website dedicated to the world of languages and translation and more specifically to all the new possibilities brought about in this area by computers and the Internet. On-line dictionaries and glossaries, translation tools, translation memories, machine translation, etc.

Merriam-Webster North American Dictionary and Thesaurus online: The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Tenth Edition. The online dictionary includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book. It also includes 1,000 illustrations and 25 tables. Selected sections of the print Collegiate Dictionary, notably the Signs and Symbols section, are omitted from the online Collegiate Dictionary because they include special characters and symbols that cannot readily be reproduced in HTML. The first Merriam-Webster dictionary was issued on September 24, 1847.

Spelling Center: Spelling Center is a log of entries from the database of user queries performed on TheFreeDictionary.com.

Thefreedictionary.com Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus: English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine.

Additionally, It is possible to search for words that starts, end, or contain a word or part of it.

Other services and free tools offered: Word of the day, Free dictionary button for Google and Yahoo toolbars, free content for websites and much more.

Online british encyclopaedia - English culture. To look up information about almost anything in English.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language - Over 200,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes. Illustrations, Pronunciation Key, Charts & Tables, Bibliographic Record.

Freelang Dictionary - freeware translator (gratis) for Windows (download). This free dictionary program for Windows (any version) is a "classic". Translate words from several languages (English, French, Czech, Danish, German, Italian, Swedish and Esperanto) into Spanish and vice versa. The interface of the program is available in Spanish, English and many other languages. After installing the program, beside translating texts and phrases, it is possible to create your own lists of words and share them with other users of the program.

Babylon translator - Translator program. This is the most popular translator - dictionary among computer users. For a long time it has been free, and though nowadays it costs 50 dollars, it is an extremely useful tool, easy to use, and the fastest solution to get translations of words, phrases, and expressions in several languages.

It is possible to download a full version to test it for 30 days. Once bought, the program enables to download a multitude of glossaries, as well as technical and specializing dictionaries. Babylon allows creating own dictionaries for your own use or to distribute them among friends or colleagues.

The program bases its function on the recognition of characters of the computer screen. Because of this technology, and the fact of obtaining instantaneously the translations and information provided by the installed dictionaries, the pointer can be placed on the word that you want to translate and to you click with the right button of the mouse while you touch simultaneously the key capital letters of the keyboard.

Also it is possible to obtain conversions among coins and among several quantities and measurements, to use it as calculator, and other advanced features

Everest Dictionary. It is a multilingual translation service for the operative systems Windows and Linux ... and it is completely free.

Translation Booth! (Translation box)

For windows user, this program is free (freeware). Once installed it is possible to get fast translations directly from the tasks bar in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese simplified and traditional Chinese. Besides new languages are incorporated.

To use this translator you need an internet access.

The program is totally free, you will be asked for your mail address and you receive a password when you use it for the first time.

ABCDatos directory: Translators. Freeware shareware programs to download: Very complete collection of translation programs and dictionaries for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Different tools to work with texts in different languages. Some programs are completely free and others are available in commercial versions.

Xanadu: Free language and translation wizard by Foreignword. Free tool that "helps you find a way through the language and translation jungle". Translate words, terms or texts from/to over 60 languages and with almost 200 free online dictionaries or text translation systems. User interface in several languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese.

Bilingual Bible library. Parallel bible texts both in English and Spanish, Search facility, notes, help... Completly free to download (8,5 MB) and use.

Ergane translator for Windows (On-line version and Free download):

Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Modern English), English (Old English), Esperanto, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic), German, Greek (Modern Greek), Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese (Romanized spelling), Latin, Malay, Norwegian, Papiamento, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Sranan Tongo, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Tagalog, Turkish, Yucatec, Zulu.

Tech Web: Computer related terms (in english)

Business Spanish lessons: An interactive web site with business vocabulary skills, grammar rules, listening, dictionaries and verbs - Spanish verbs conjugation.

Spanish language – Medical vocabulary: Spanish medical resources. Medical phrases, parts of the body, illnesses, symptoms, treatments, medical people. (See our medical spanish course).

Vocabulary skills – Spanish for professionals: Improve your Spanish skills. Spanish pronunciation and grammar, Basic rules of accentuation, computer terms, mechanical terms, food terms, Scuba diving terms, transportation terms, legal terms.

Basic Spanish Words with Pronunciation - Spanish phrases and words (alphabet, days of the week, months, numbers, colors, family, directions) to hear its pronunciation.

Online Spanish Grammar Exercises - Excelent and well organized collection of Spanish grammar exercises offered for free by Barbara Kuczun Nelson (Colby college).

Available resources:

• - Sound files, songs, examples and hints.

• - Study modules: Adjectives, adverbs, commands, comparisons, conditional, demonstrative adjectives, future, interrogatives, negatives, past participle, perfect tenses, prepositions, present tense, present progressive, preterite, preterite vs imperfect, pronouns - DO & IO, reflexive verbs, sequence of tenses, si clauses, subjunctive-present, subjunctive-past, time, verb charts.

• - Exercises with Verbs: "por" vs "para", "gustar", "ser" vs "estar", "tener" expressions

• - Pronunciation exercises

• - e-mail notifications when new study modules or activities are available.

Spanish-Kit free Spanish education website: Free of charge online educational resource which was created to help you learn to read and speak Spanish. They offer free Spanish grammar and reader downloads, interactive vocabulary courses, and a Spanish Learning Community where you can meet with other Spanish learners.

Available resources:

• - Online Spanish Grammar where users share their own insights and comments on Spanish grammar topics. Free downloads of learning material for printing or for further offline study and review.

• - Small yet growing collection of beginning level Spanish readers which may be downloaded in their entirety free of charge to learn reading Spanish everyday.

• - Free Spanish-Kit's Vocabulary Tool is a course to learn Spanish by e-mail. Choose a vocabulary list, how many words you want per mailing and how often to receive it. It's possible to stop the mailings and resume them at a later date right where you left off. Finally, you can elect to be quizzed on your Spanish vocabulary performance.

• - Online Spanish Language Forum where you can get help with grammar and practice your Spanish xomposition and vocabulary skills.

• - Free newsletter

Redgeomatica – Spanish vocabulary: Huge collection of online activities to improve our Spanish grammar and vocabulary skills.

Spanishvocabularyskills: Useful tool for teachers and students. Spanish vocabulary Skills will help you to increase your vocabulary and pronunciation by clicking on each picture to hear the Spanish word.

Educational World: lesson planning, new school year activities, edits, Show-Biz Science, geography, Writing Bug, puzzles, icebreakes activities.

Discovery puzzlemaker:puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers of languages, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.

Comunicativo.net: Spanish class activities and worksheets for teachers of Spanish structured into levels (beginner, intermediate and advance). The material can be printed directly from the screen.

Elenet: Readings, songs, vocabulary and worksheets for teachers of Spanish. The material can be printed.

Gramaclicando: Spanish teacher resources. Spanish grammar an exercises for the classes.

English - Spanish Vocabulary Quizzes: Learning resources for students. English – Spanish Quizzes to help you learn and review vocabulary.

Spanish Language Exercises: Examples of different approaches to common language challenges for Spanish language students.

Top English Teaching: "The search engine and directory for English teachers." A guide to the best ELT resources in the internet: games, songs, activities, worksheets generators, grammar guides, quizzes, software downloads, clip arts, arts & crafts, lesson plans, forums for teachers, newsletter, magazines, newsgroups, articles, jobs, courses, qualification certificates, and much more.

Tecla – texts on Spanish culture: Written for learners and teachers of Spanish language. is a weekly magazine about Spanish culture produced during the UK academic year by the "Consejeria de Educacion". Articles, quizzes and other interesting resources both for teachers and students alike.

EspanOle! - On-line Resource for Students and Teachers of Spanish. Language, "Refranes", literature, teachers, fine arts, Hispanics, countries, history, cooking, travels...

Related information at Abanico's Website:

Travel and Tourism in Spain. Tourist and cultural information about Spain.

Museums in Spain, Malaga and Andalusia Museums .

Newspapers in Spanish. Newspapers from Spain and latin America.

Parallel texts: Spanish - English translated texts.

Specific technical and professional language resources.

Other links about foreign languages and education.

Diccionarios traductores Inglés - Español - Programas y Recursos online de Traducción.

Articles:

Why to study a foreign language abroad? - Fifteen reasons to study a foreign language abroad.

Outbound links:

Instituto Cervantes exists to promote the Spanish language in the world. Communication activities, lesson plans, self correcting grammar exercises, worksheets, Spanish literature.

La Lengua Española (The Spanish language).

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes de la Universidad de Alicante.

National Geographic online in Spanish

Yahoo directory Spanish songs / The words - Lyrics. In Spanish.

Yahoo directory Spanish songs / The words - Lyrics. English version.

Ethnologue Languages of the World: A place of reference where you can conveniently find many resources to help you with your research of the world's languages. Once every four years they take a "snapshot" of the contents of their Ethnologue database and publish it along with language maps for many of the countries of the world.

"The Ethnologue database has been an active research project for more than fifty years. It is probably the most comprehensive listing of information about the currently known languages of the world. Thousands of linguists and other researchers all over the world rely on and have contributed to the Ethnologue database."

Available resources at Ethnologue Languages of the World:

• - Language maps with information about the locations of the world's living languages.

• - Extensive bibliography: Bibliographic citations for thousands of published works with additional information about the languages of the world. An invaluable research aid for scholars and others with interest in the world's languages. It's possible to browse using the author, country, serial, or subject indexes, or create your own freeform search parameters.

• - Computer resources: Software tools to be used by scholars, researchers, and students in linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics, literacy, and related disciplines.

University of Oregon - Yamada Language Center's Materials: Catalog Search by Language, Material Type or Title.

Active Language© Lab: over 500 learning units grouped according to subjects that are relevant to your daily life, enabling targeted learning that responds to immediate needs. It's not free but they offer a free trial.

iLoveLanguages language-related Internet resources catalog: More than 2400 hand-reviewed links about online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, and language schools around the world.