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Spanish Language / Hispanic Culture
... Where to Start
copyright 1996, Alysse Lemery Rasmussen
Como se aprende (How-to learn)
Lake Montessori Students .... did you forget your homework?
Don't despair. I've posted a copy of it here :) Just click
on Lake
Montessori!
Learn Spanish ... Free Online
Tutorial with free grading service for teachers.
http://www.studyspanish.com/
Basic Spanish for the
Virtual Student... all that great grammar stuff
http://www.umr.edu/~amigos/Virtual/
Conversational Spanish
http://goldey.gbc.edu/~grantm/spanish/
WebSpanol ... a guide for
Spanish language beginners
http://users.why.net/macabut/webspan/
A great way to start if you're new to all of this.
El alfabeto hispano ... el abcdario ...
abc's and rhymes to keep your pronunciation pure!
Good for students ... better for Teachers :)
Teaching Conversational Spanish Thru
Games
http://www.sube.com/
Useful Resources
for Learning & Teaching Spanish
http://employees.csbsju.edu/MCOOK/spanish.html
Directory
of Spanish Language Schools
http://www.txinfinet.com/mader/ecotravel/schools/schoolist.html
My favorite ... 'cause my students who've gone there really enjoyed it ... was El Instituto Fenix in Cuernavaca, Mexico. But, unfortunately, the gentleman who owned it retired.
Now, however, I have a new favorite based on personal experience! In the summer of 1998, I went to the CENTRO BILINGÜE ... The Center for Bilingual Multicultural Studies ... in Cuernavaca, Morelos, MÉXICO. It was a wonderful program (and the people there had worked with el Instituto Fenix before it closed down). They put you in a small size class with other students at the same level ... or even provide one-on-one instruction if that's what it takes. Be prepared, though ... everything is up one hill and down the next :-) We stayed with a family only minutes away from the school.
The students weren't nearly as impressed with the program in San
Miguel de Allende and were very "under-impressed" with one program in the
Canary Islands.)
MundoHispano ... the
Spanish language learning MOO
http://www.umsl.edu/~moosproj/mundo.html
An even better way to keep up once you're on a roll ... be prepared though,
you may have to convince the powers that be that you're not a kid looking
to kick up a bit of dust :-)
¿Tiene hambre? (Hungry?)
Hispanic Foods
Recipes from
Spain
http://www.xmission.com/%7Edderhak/recipes.html
¿Juegos? (Games?)
Mexican Games:
Lobohttp://members.aol.com/alysser/lobo.htm
Lobo is a lot like hide & seek. The "gang" sings the rhyme saying that they wonder where lobo is. Lobo reponds that he's ... bathing, dressing, etc. Finally, when he's ready he howls "¡Ya me voy!". Whoever he catches become lobo for the next go-round.
Parangaricutirimicuaro
http://members.aol.com/alysser/parangaricutirimicuaro.htm
Parangaricutirimicuaro is a great tongue-twister. The kids from
Mexico love to say the long, long name of this teeny, tiny town.
Cosas culturales:
Ballet Folklórico
http://www.balletfolkloricotours.com/welcome.htmlI've always wanted to see the Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, but whenever
it's around, I'm someplace else. In October of 1996, we finally end up
in the same general vicinity. Trust me! It's worth the price of the seat.
Two hours of fun, costumes, music, dance, culture ... colors you wouldn't
believe!
Interested in other types of dances? Try the
Dance
Library at http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/dance/type.html
Fiestas:
Dia de los Muertos / Day of
the Dead
did you
know marigolds are the favored flowers of the Central American dead?
Day
of the Dead / Día de Los Muertos facts galore! lots
of links!
El
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) One of the most colorful
& fun! sites ... lots of silly skeletons
Our Lady of Guadalupe
The
Our Lady of Guadalupe Web Site
Las Navidades / Christmas
Seasons Greetings in languages from all around the world ... and with music, too!
To return to Dan & Alysse's Languages, Linguistics, & Foreign
Cultures Page, click here
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