Culture

//Post high quality texts in// //Spanish/Portuguese// //that could serve as the foundation for a lesson or project here.//

- A wiki collection of cultural resources in Spanish, organized by conceptual topics, grammar topics, media types, and vocabulary topics.

//Portals to other resources://

- A Google Map with links to videos of both folk and popular music from Spanish-speaking countries around the world

- Fantastic, didactic activities and free worksheets in Spanish for a variety of subject areas

- Links to advertisements from around the world

- A Ning community that contains links to a blog and podcasts re: Brazilians living in the U.S.

- A collection of multimedia texts from a variety of different sources (movies, radio, songs, TV) that teachers can use as the basis for activities

- Extensive library of digital texts (including children's literature and museums) from Colombia

- A collection of links to newspapers, radio, and TV from countries around the world. You can filter them by country, language, topic, or type of media



- A database of culturally authentic Creative Commons images, organized by language and topic

- Searchable collection of videos in hundreds of languages from around the world. Choose the 100% option in order to get a subtitled version of the video. You can also select the "country" tab to find videos from a specific country.

- Website containing links to cultural listening activities, myths, legends, and grammar/vocab.-oriented listening activities with easy, medium, or hard levels, transcripts, and cloze exercises available for the various texts

- Links to poetry and short stories in Portuguese

- Very nice collection of Spanish & Latin American literature (navigation on the left)

- Culture-based websites in Spanish

- Searchable database of language maintenance/proficiency development lessons (reading and listening) in a wide variety of languages. Allows you to limit the search to video-based lessons. Click on the individual links to launch the lesson modules

- A wiki (similar to Wikipedia) devoted exclusively to issues of linguistics

- A site containing a host of infographics on topics like health and social issues

- Children's picture books online - search for your language

- Check out CDs of music, content materials, [|culture kits], flags, and/or maps from the [|Outreach Resource Library] at BYU's Kennedy Center for free. The Center can also help you schedule [|free presentations] for your classroom regarding specific countries. You may also wish to explore their [|CultureGuides]--conuntry-specific teaching units for both elementary and secondary classes

- Links to newspapers from around the world in Spanish

- Latin American Network Information Center - Extensive list of texts in Spanish & Portuguese (organized by country)

- Interactive map with legends and folktales from around the world--many available in different languages

- Magazine produced by the Embassy of Spain (also available through the Spanish Resource Center)

- Brief tidbits about various current events and interesting stories in the news (also available from [|Spain])

- Today's front pages from newspapers around the world

- A map that plots the locations of newspapers from around the world--can be filtered by language (Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)

- List of audio courses and podcasts in a variety of languages, including Spanish & Portuguese

- Audio materials with transcripts from Carnegie Mellon in French, German, Japanese, and Spanish



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- Site in Argentina containing Quino comics & Mafalda videos

Searchable database with links to faculty-reviewed, culturally authentic images, media, and materials from multiple countries

- Excellent grammar practice activities based on culturally authentic multimedia materials

- Extensive list of resources for Spanish literature and linguistics

- Links to sites related to literature in Spanish & Portuguese

- Library of poetry in Spanish read aloud by the authors (or by others)

..EDU - Search for educational videos in Spanish
 * [|Depende] (4:28 – Spanish – [|Video based on art] that plays with perspective – would be a great foundation for launching a discussion re: the pros/cons of Spanglish)
 * [|Don Quixote de la Mancha] (“translated” into Spanglish)
 * [|The Job] (3:00 – English - Parody)
 * [|Mujeres migrantes] (3:23 – Spanish – Ad re: problems faced by women who are migrants)
 * [|Manu Chao - Clandestino Clip Inmigrantes] (3:01 – Music video)
 * [|Los prejuicios contra los inmigrantes] (:31 – Spanish – Public Service Announcement)
 * [|Spanglish 2] (4:28 – Spanish & English - Movie clip that would be excellent for Translation classes)

- Blog by Zachary Jones with links to materials in Spanish that reflect popular culture