Dictionaries
1. Universidad de Oviedo: Lista de diccionarios
Grammar Explanations
1. Spanish Grammar Help Site from the University of Texas. This site is written in English. The explanations are excellent, especially on Ser vs. Estar, the use of the se impersonal and other tricky grammar topics.
2. Grammar Exercises No further identification of this site designed by a Tripod member. It is a clearly laid-out site with clear, informative explanations of difficult points of grammar. Each explanation is followed by a brief exercise, although there are no answers or feedback provided for these.
3. Independent Study Program: Spanish Online Links to William Giuliano's Spanish Grammar for Reading Very basic level grammar presentations and audio files for listening and repetition of the pronunciation of vocabulary items.
4. Gramática y ortografía por Juan Manuel Soto Arriví The exercises provide right/wrong feedback. Grammar explanations are fairly basic, but correct.
5. Spanish Grammar Exercises Site developed by Matthew Stroud at Trinity University in San Antonio. Only a few items, such as Ser vs. Estar include explanations of usage. I do not recommend this site for grammar explanations.
6. Spanish Grammar Tutorial From Learn Spanish; a free online tutorial. Each section is followed by a brief quiz on the verb forms, articles, etc. There are no exercises testing students' knowledge of when or if to use forms. I find some of the exercises to be ambiguous and I do not recommend this site.
7. Españolé Basic Spanish lessons
8. Web-lessons by Tyler Jones Basic elementary-level vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation
9. Gramática española This site is like an appendix to a grammar textbook. It provides lists of pronouns, verb conjugations, useful expressions, but no explanations of usage.
Grammar Exercises
1. Spanish Grammar Exercises Grammar exercises with feedback designed by Juan Ramón Araña. These are good exercises with immediate right/wrong feedback which helps students see how well they know the topic. The site also provides some grammar explanations, but is principally a site offering solf-correcting exercises.
2. Más Arriba Designed for users of Arriba, this site contains fill in the blank exercises and provides the correct answers for users to self-check. These exercises do not include any which reqire students to decide whether to use the subjunctive, Ser or Estar, for example. They only practice the forms. No grammar explanations are provided.
3. Ejercicios de gramática Site located at UNC-CH. The purpose of this page is to supplement Mundo 21's "G pages" with practice exercises accompanied by answers and explanation of difficult points. The exercises are arranged from easy to difficult under each grammar topic. The answers to the exercises are at the end of each grammar topic. There is also an online PowerPoint presentation reviewing the Subjunctive vs. the Indicative. This is the only grammar explanation on this site.
4. Spanish at the Multimedia Center. Spanish grammar in review Site from the University of Toronto which includes quizzes on various grammar topics. Students get immediate indication of correct/incorrect responses. No grammar explanations
5. Grammar Drills This site will email you drills for various grammar topics if you provide them with address.
6. E.L. Easton Languages Online Spanish Exercises, Quizzes, Tests. Some of these sites are listed elsewhere on this page.
7. Quia Various games and exercises designed by contributors. Some of these games may be fun for students, although they do not all work perfectly. Varying quality of information
8. Spanish Grammar Exercises by Barbara K. Nelson This site contains mostly fill-in-the-blank exercises, but also provides correction and explanation for each answer. The site also has recordings of poems and songs with pictorial glosses of vocabulary and a video about a hotel receptionist's horrible day.
9. Business Spanish Grammar This is a simply laid-out site of clear grammar explanations. The explanations are accompanied by example sentences. Users can hear these sentences read by clicking on them.
Tests to assess level of knowledge of Spanish
1. don Quijote online course Students can apparently register on this site to be able to use online grammar lessons. This link, however, is to a level assessment test.
2. Lingolex: Learn Spanish This page is sponsored by the don Quijote site and provides lists of vocabulary which is useful in various circumstances, such as for Christmas, how to describe physical appearance, Internet terms, etc. It also gives many links to other grammar-related pages prepared by the creators of this site. The level of quality of the explanations varies. I do not recommend these linked pages as sources of grammar explanations. On the page which gives rules for the graphic accent, the authors write: Unfortunately I don't really believe that it is very easy to learn the rules and then be able to apply them. I myself find that writing Spanish accents is difficult and so I use a mixture of knowing the rules and memorising the individual words. Before I send a written text I cheat by using the spell checker although there are some cases where the accents change the meaning so beware.
Dennis D. Pollard, Ph.D.The University of Michigan Dept. of Romance Languages Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275
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