i grew up speaking/learning spanish, so these recs are more for those who are looking for native-level content for ci, but i hope there's something that can help you! i teach beginner and intermediate spanish and am also working on collecting resources for beginners, if there's something you've enjoyed please let me know!
click for: reading - podcasts - audiovisual
general tools
- diccionario de la lengua española
- diccionario de americanismos
- diccionario panhispánico de dudas
- fundéu, fundación del español urgente
- for english-spanish, wordreference is best. their forums also have a lot of detailed use cases if you can't find something somewhere else.
- many countries often have their own dictionaries and/or corpuses if you need are looking for a specific dialect. for example, tesoro lexicográfico del español de puerto rico or diccionario breve de mexicanismos. check with the specific academia for the country you're looking for.
on spanish language
- linguriosa on youtube talks about different aspects of the spanish language and linguistics in general
- francisco moreno fernández, la maravillosa historia del español, instituto cervantes
puerto rican spanish
- academia puertorriqueña de la lengua española
- dialecto boricua. i believe she's more active on social media
- maría elisa díaz rivera, refranes más usados en puerto rico, editorial de la universidad de puerto rico
DELE resources
i took the dele c2 exam in may 2022, here are the resources i used to pass!
- a por el dele (site - youtube). i bought her c2 course and it was sooo very helpful! her youtube videos are also great for prepping.
- el cronómetro c2. received this as a gift and saved the practice exams for the month before the exam to practice the format, especially the writing format.
- preparación al dele c2. this one is similar to el cronómetro but the version i downloaded was written in (love) so i couldn't use it for practice. it does, however, have vocab lists for the different thematic areas that can show up on the c2 exam.
- plan curricular del instituto cervantes. this page sorts different linguistic notions and thematic vocab by level so you can go through the c2 level (or any for that matter) and add anything to your vocab practice routine that seems helpful.
- other than that, i did a LOT of reading. see the writeups on reading 50 books on the language learning page, which really inspired me to do this.
- let me deinfluence you for a second: do NOT buy the spanishclasseslive course. i did and it was not worth it, the advice was way too general in comparison with the a por el dele course.
reading recs
check the syllabi page for more detailed/extensive recs. these are just my favorite books :)
- check out ciudad seva for classic short stories and poetry :)
- gabriel garcía márquez, el amor en los tiempos del cólera
- camila sosa villada, las malas
- jorge icaza, huasipungo
- benito pérez galdós, tristana
- manuel puig, el beso de la mujer araña
- luis rafael sánchez, la guaracha del macho camacho
- samanta schweblin, kentukis
reading online
- el país
podcasts
- ni me ladilles, venezuela, pop culture.
- escuela de nada, venezuela, pop culture/humor.
- la sala de todas. puerto rico, feminism.
- la gayinera, mexico, pop culture.
- la brega. puerto rico, history.
- radio ambulante. various countries, chronicles.
tv
- x
youtube
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