Languages Websites
From ResearchWiki
Contents |
[edit] French
*Dr. Morgan's Medieval Studies Homepage
International edition of Le Figaro Newspaper, published in New York.
Major French newspaper featuring politics, sports, culture, science, and more.
One of the best first introductions to French culture online. Includes current events, exhibitions, recent publications, and much more.
A fantastic site with links to thousands of French and francophone sites around the world.
Access to scholarly resources in all aspects of the Western Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Includes a search engine, subject guides, electronic journals, and links to organizations, institutes, and collections.
Provides access to a number of public domain French literary texts.
Gallica contains digitized printed materials in both image and text formats: the image format, a photographic facsimile of the original, preserves the visual appearance of the original document; the text format results from the manual typing of the document and allows you to search for terms within the text.
This site has some information on the criticism of female French Renaissance writers as well as a bit of bibliographical information.
[edit] Italian
An excellent source for finding information on Italy and Italian studies.
An extensive list of Italian periodicals covering such topics as sports, politics, economics, and multimedia issues.
Radio Televisione Italiana, the national Italian TV/Radio network site.
Major Italian newspaper featuring politics, sports, culture, science, and more.
[edit] Spanish
Major Spanish newspaper featuring politics, sports, culture science, and more.
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.
The site provides links and information on the LASA which "brings together experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors, across the globe".
Links to many of the world's Spanish language radio stations. (English and Spanish versions)
Site devoted to learning Spanish. Grammar, exercises, culture, links and more.
An initiative of the University of Alicante, this megasite includes the full text of many literary classics, facsimiles of early works, literary criticism and historical studies, and doctoral dissertations. It also contains portals on Latin America, History, and Children’s Literature, as well as some photographs and teaching resources.
Associated with the Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas (UT)-Austin, this site aims “to provide Latin American users with access to academic databases and information services throughout the Internet, and to provide Latin Americanists around the world with access to information on and from Latin America.” It is primarily an index to government, academic, and popular websites, and can be searched by country or by category (such as Business, Government, etc.).
[edit] Other Languages
The German Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in German Studies, including all German-speaking countries.
This site has annotated links to over six hundred China and Chinese language and linguistics-related websites.
Links to Japanese cultural, educational, literary, and other web sites.
