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Dictionaries

DRAE
Dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language.

Buscon de la RAE
Searches for the definitions of words in a wide range of editions
going back to the first one in the 18th century.

Diccionario de Escritores en Mexico (in Spanish) ; Diccionario de Escritores en Mexico (in English)
Bio and brief description of each writer's work.

Diccionarios.com
Translates words from and into Spanish, English, French, and Catalan (powered by Vox, Larrouse, Harrap's).

Diccionario de sinónimos
Thesaurus compiled by the University of Oviedo.

Online Spanish Spellcheck
Checks the spelling of a word or a whole text in Spanish .

Glossary of Spanish-English for Business
Translates business terms from Spanish into English and vice versa.

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Translators

WordReference.com
Highlight a word on a webpage and have it tranlslated into English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French. Also an online dictionary for those languages. Auto-translation only for Windows users

Babelfish
A popular translation engine that can be applied to a word, a passage or a whole web page.

Dictionary.com translator
A translation tool from SYSTRAN.

Foreign Word.com
A series of miscellaneous sources dedicated to online translators and dictionaries.

SYSTRANET
The "megasource" for online translating.

Lexicool
Comprehensive directory of bilingual and multilingual dictionaries on the Internet. The site has a fully searchable database, with over a thousand titles referenced.

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Grammar Tutorials

Learn Spanish
A free online Spanish tutorial. Pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, verb drills, travel helper, cultural notes.

BBC Education -- Spanish
A large number of interactive tutorials for students of all levels, including absolute beginners, beginners, intermediate, students revising for their GCSE exams and others.

Basic Spanish for the Virtual Student
Extensive beginning Spanish lessons. Includes vocabulary, grammar, verb conjugation, and a list of 500 irregular Spanish verbs (with definitions).

"about.spanish.com"
Guide to Websites related to Spain and the Spanish language, including dictionaries, grammar, literature, schools, software, pen pals, and more.

Más arriba
A full-colour, interactive workbook of introductory Spanish language exercises, based on the pictorial contextualization of basic vocabulary and language points. There is instant feed-back and vocabulary help.

Gramática y ortografía
Explanations of Spanish grammar and some on-line tests for practice elaborated by a Spanish instructor at the University of Indiana. In Spanish.

Online Spanish Help
Includes on-line courses, Spanish for travelers, basic to advanced-level Spanish tutorials, college courses in Spanish (complete with grammar exercises and tests), dictionaries, cultural materials, games and much more.

Business Spanish
Devoted to general Spanish rather than to business terms. Beginner, intermediate, advanced lessons with audio that covers over 100 themes, conversations, cultural notes. Daily tutorials.

Spanish Writing Guide
A list of problem words and expressions for the beginning Spanish speaker and writer.

Spanish Pronto!
Spanish grammar and vocabulary essentials; reading practices; and selected, annotated links.

Spanish Grammar Help
Help for tricky grammar and vocabulary topics: ser vs estar, stem-change verbs, por vs para, subjunctive, and more.

Verbix
On-line conjugator.

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