Portal:Spanish

Spanish Language Division

Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity Spanish Language Division, part of the Center for Foreign Language Learning and the School of Language and Literature. This division coordinates and focuses studies on Spanish as a second language and for native speakers. Here you can learn Spanish and explore its cultures, as well as teach others.

Spanish (español), also called Castilian (castellano), is a Romance language that originated in northern Spain and it was taken to Africa, the Americas and Asia Pacific between the 15th and 19th centuries. Today, Spanish is an official language of Spain, most Latin American countries and Equatorial Guinea; 21 nations speak it as their primary language. Spanish also is one of the six official languages of the UN; and 400 million people natively speak it, making it the most spoken Romance language, and the second most-spoken language by native speakers (1st Chinese). Additionally, Spanish is the second most-studied language in the world (1st English).

The Spanish Language Division offers courses, projects and resources both for beginners, and those of high proficiency. Courses are in three categories reflecting the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Introduction to Spanish edit

Yet to be created

Elementary Spanish edit

• Spanish One: A course of Spanish language which has reached in summer 2006 has been reopened. It is based on a live communication with a teacher via Skype. As a methodology, a Spanish book developed on Wikibooks is used. This course is focused on beginners.

Intermediate Spanish edit

• Spanish Two: Spanish Two continues to introduce the Spanish language to students with commitment to learn this language. After completing the course, students should be able to communicate without the need to think extensively. This is the precursor to more advanced classes for fluent speakers.

Proficient Spanish edit

• Don Quixote in the original Spanish
• Español para hablantes de otras lenguas: Page in the Spanish Wikiversity with resources to learn Spanish.

Other edit

The following courses have been created by members of the Spanish Division, or the Wikimedia Foundation, and are unique in their method and scope.

• a Spanish Wikibook

Off site edit

These courses were not created by members of the Wikimedia Foundation, nor are they hosted by Wikimedia.

• MIT OpenCourseWare for Spanish I
• MIT OpenCourseWare for Spanish II
• MIT OpenCourseWare for Spanish III
• MIT OpenCourseWare for Spanish IV
• Learn Spanish from the BBC
• Duolingo

• Reorganize structure of Spanish courses and merge Spanish in Topic:Spanish, fixing the links.
• Reorganize Category:Spanish and fix links.
• Revitalize Spanish One and Spanish Two.
• Merge redundant Spanish courses
• Convert appropriate templates from English Wikipedia for Spanish Language Division site.
• Compile list of verbs on Spanish/Verbs and conjugate!
• Make a logo for this site.
• Record text on Spanish: An Introduction/Teaching tools.
• Send a message to all the people listed in the old lists with the state of the Spanish Language Division asking them if they are still interested.
• …

These are useful Spanish grammar reviews

Late June, 2013

• Doing some much needed housecleaning ;)

March 24, 2007

• restoration and refreshing of Spanish Division and Courses started

• Wikimedia resources
• Dictionaries
  • omegawiki.org - A free, open source community created dictionary for all languages.
  • Linguee.com - A unique tool that translates your text, and shows you real world examples of how that phrase has been used in bilingual sources.
  • wordreference.com - A free dictionary plus conjugation tables, games, forums and other tools.
• Making connections
  • Meetup.com - A great tool for finding, or creating a local group of people to practice speaking your target language with.
  • italki.com - Here you can make free online language exchanges (they teach you & vice versa), or find an afordable online tutor.
• Listening Practice
  • www.audiria.com
• News in Spanish
  • www.elmundo.com
• Other
  • jitsi - A free, open source alternative to skype.
  • Learning With Text - A free, cross-platform, open source reading tool; Learn about it here.
  • onlinespanishhelp.com - Spanish flash cards, educational games, conjugation tables, etc.
  • Learn Spanish Effortlessly - A free, cross-platform language learning tool with a method called Conversation Based Chunking

Useful Vocabulary Subjects

• Spanish ordinal numbers