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Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Spanish Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Spanish Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Spanish Abroad, Inc.
This resource provides information about Spanish language study abroad programs throughout Latin America and Spain.
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University of Miami: Exploring the Culture of Little Havana
This University of Miami site offers a fantastic examination of the culture of Little Havana and the impact of Cuban immigration on the culture of the United States, particularly in this section of Miami. Domino Park, Cuban cigars,...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Mexican Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Mexican Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Peruvian Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Peruvian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 7: La Familia
In this seventh unit of an introductory Spanish course, students learn how to talk about their families, compare Latino family values to their own, discuss the Spanish royal family, create a family tree, recite a rhyme, and learn about...
Indiana University
Indiana: Gramatica Y Ortografia
Learn and practice Spanish. Find grammar rules, exercises, courses, culture, and other related links.
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Bowling Green State University: Studies in Spanish
Provides general information about the Spanish degree programs available at the university. Contact information and course descriptions are available.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Expresiones Con Tener
Great exercise for practicing idiomatic expressions using the verb, "tener." Based on the context of each sentence, the student selects the words from a drop-down menu that completes the appropriate expression. Immediate feedback...
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Don Quijote: Spanish History
This is an overview of Spanish history from Romans to actual time, through the Inquisition, the Spanish Flag, and art. It offers links to more information about each topic.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Spanish Reflexive Verbs Exercises
This site is great practice from Colby College with some of the more common reflexive verbs. This exercise is not as concerned with testing grammatical applications as it is with testing for the meaning of the reflexive verb in context....
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Other Worlds the Voyage of Columbus
This site has a lesson plan designed for grades 9-12. The lesson plan deals with understanding the culture from which Columbus came, Renaissance Europe, and the culture he found in the New World.
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Arte Maya Tz'utuhil
This web-site, available in both Spanish and English, is based on the presentation of contemporary Mayan artists of Guatemala. With information and images this is a great contemporary Mayan art resource.
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies
Famsi: Early/middle Formative Kanocha Phase at Blackman Eddy
Archaeological investigation at Blackman Eddy in Belize demonstrates architecture related to Olmec style resulting in implications of long distance trade networks. Site can be viewed in English and in Spanish.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Conquest, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
A series of illustrations and accounts of Spanish conquest of Indians that reflect the fascination with and the brutality directed against native cultures.
A&E Television
History.com: Po'pay: The Little Known Pueblo Hero Who Led the First American Revolution
Nearly 100 years before the American Revolution, another war of independence took place on American soil -- against Spanish colonizers. Coordinated by Tewa leader Po'Pay, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 saved Indigenous cultures from...
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Mission San Luis: Apalachee Province
A history of the Apalachee Indians at the time of the Spanish incursions in the early sixteenth century.
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Don Quijote: Las Fallas, Valencia
If you're looking for a festival that compares to our Fourth of July, then you've come to the right site from don Quijote. Las Fallas is undoubtedly one of the most unique festivals in Spain - a Spanish fiesta where the whole town is...
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Don Quijote: Official Languages of Spain
Information about the principle languages of Spain: Castilian (or Spanish), Euskera (the Basque language), Galician, and Catalan.