Spanish-Speaking World

The Spanish language opens up worlds of opportunity! From exotic and historical travel destinations and myriad varieties of music to international business relationships and lively dancing people, Spanish takes you there and keeps you up all night!

The Spanish language is spoken by somewhere between 322 and 400 million people natively, making Spanish the most spoken Romance language and possibly the second most spoken language in terms of total number of native speakers.

21 nations use Spanish as their primary language, and it is one of six official languages of the United Nations. It is the official language of Spain, most Latin American countries and Equatorial Guinea.

Bilingual fluency in Spanish and English is particularly useful in the United States, where its cultural and political influence is well-established and steadily growing.

Continue reading about the Spanish language at Wikipedia.

Spanish Learning Resources

• Spanish
  • Learn Spanish
    • Babbel.com Virtual Flash Card Language Share Site with Spanish Learning Tools
    • BBC Languages Spanish
    • BBC Mundo News in Spanish
    • Bitesized Languages French, Spanish and Portuguese Daily Emails
    • Business Spanish Website
    • Busuu Social Language Exchange Partner Community plus Multimedia Photo-Audio Lesson Archives and Video Chat Interface
    • CaféBabel.com Café Babel European Cultural News Magazine in Spanish
    • Chile Podcast and Video Podcast
    • Coffee Break Spanish Podcast from Radio Lingua
    • Download Free FSI Spanish Language Courses
    • Español Podcast or Spanish Podcast
    • InstaSpanish.com's Insta Spanish Podcast
    • Learn about the Spanish Language at Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
    • Loquella Listen, Read and Speak Spanish Using a Free Online Language Tool
    • MangoLanguages.com Mango Languages Free Online Language Courses
    • Notes in Spanish Advanced Podcast
    • Notes in Spanish Intermediate Podcast
    • Online-Spanish-Course.com Free Online Spanish Course with Flashcards
    • Rocket Spanish Language Audio and Software Course
    • Rojas Spanish Language Podcast for Intermediate and Advanced Learners
    • Rolling Rs Learn Spanish Podcast
    • Rosetta Stone European (Spain) Spanish Language Software Level 1
    • Rosetta Stone Learn Latin American Spanish Language Software Level 1
    • Spanish-Podcast.com Voices en Español Conversational Spanish Podcast
    • SpanishLingQ.com Spanish LingQ Podcast
    • SpanishPod.com Podcast for Learning Spanish
    • SpanishRomance.com: A Variety of Spanish Language Content
    • StudySpanish.com Website with Free Online Spanish Tutorial
    • Survival Guide Learn to Speak Spanish Podcast
    • US Foreign Service Institute Spanish Free Audio Lessons Downloads
    • Voices in Español Bilingual Blog
    • World Nomads iPod Spanish Language Podcasts

Podcasts for Spanish Learners

Podcasts are a great way to learn languages. You can use Free Language to check the vitality of available Spanish language-learning podcasts by viewing their feed page. Click on any podcast below to view general info followed by the latest items from it's feed. You can tell if the feed has been updated lately, and it'll save you some time in choosing which podcasts to subscribe to.

• Podcasts for Learners of Spanish
  • Chile Podcast and Video Podcast
  • Coffee Break Spanish Podcast
  • Español Podcast or Spanish Podcast
  • Notes in Spanish Advanced Podcast
  • Notes in Spanish Intermediate Podcast
  • Rojas Spanish Language Podcast
  • Rolling Rs Learn Spanish Podcast
  • SpanishPod.com Learn Spanish on Your Terms Podcast
  • Survival Spanish Podcast
  • Voices en Español Bilingual Blog
  • Voices en Español Conversational Spanish Podcast

News in Spanish

News feeds from around the Spanish-speaking world provide language exposure and practice joined with current events, culture, politics, science, sports and more. At Free Language, you can view summaries of these feeds and jump to view full articles when you interest is piqued.

• Spanish News Feeds
  • BBC Mundo News in Spanish
  • Café Babel News in Spanish

Spanish Internet TV

Watching people speak Spanish is a good way to gain exposure to the language in a non-study environment. This is great for folks who aren't living where the language is spoken and especially those already proficient in listening comprehension. If you don't understand anything, it's cool to "vegg out" for a while, but it's not the most productive thing you can do to learn. Try to find something with subtitles, and you're on the way. ;)

If you do get into Internet TV, I highly recommend Miro, a free and open source media player with multimedia RSS capability that supports Linux, Mac and Windows. Hey, "because open media matters."

At any rate, below you'll find resources with literally thousands of Internet TV stations in a wide variety of languages. Amongst them you'll find plenty in Spanish. Enjoy!

• Global Internet TV Gateway Portal with Web TV in World Languages
• NetTVDB Free Database of Internet/Web TV Stations in Multiple Languages and Countries

Helpful Resources and Tools for Spanish

SurvivalPhrases.com Survival Phrases in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Swedish, Arabic, Spanish and Vietnamese
ExpertVillage.com Instructional Videos on Learning Foreign Languages
Foreign Language Translation Extensions/Tools/Plugins/Add-Ons for the Firefox Web Browser
PhraseBase.com Multi-Lingual Conversational Phrase Database Resource
expatriates.com Free International Multilingual Language Exchange Partner Classifieds
FoxLingo Free Firefox Browser Extension Software for Translating Web Pages
Online Flashcard Exchange Community

Make Friends Learning Spanish

Social language learning has become incredibly popular on the web as it has transcended language barriers in previously impossible ways. Right now someone in Latin America or Spain could be interested in teaching you Spanish in exchange for your English skills. If you speak other languages, the odds are even better that you'll find someone interested in a language exchange.

Note that not all networks below support Spanish. Collectively, though, they support pretty much every language.

• Social
  • Social Language Learning
    • Babbel.com Virtual Flash Card Language Share Site w/English, French, German, Italian, Spanish Tools
    • Busuu Social Language Exchange Partner Community plus Multimedia Photo-Audio Lesson Archives and Video Chat Interface
    • ECPod.com ECPod English Chinese Video Podcasts Uploaded By and For the Community
    • expatriates.com Free International Multilingual Language Exchange Partner Classifieds
    • italki.com Free Skype VoIP and IM Language Partner Community
    • Language-Exchanges.org Mixxer Free Skype Language Exchange Community
    • Lingopass.com Free Global Language Exchange Community
    • LiveMocha.com Live Mocha Social Language Learning Course and Networking Website
    • MyHappyPlanet.com My Happy Planet Private Social Language-Learning Community
    • Palabea.net Palabea the Speaking World Social Language Exchange Network
    • VoxSwap.com VoxSwap Online IM and Voice Social Foreign Language Exchange
    • Worldia.net Worldia International Community to Learn and Teach Foreign Languages

Spanish Top 9 Categories

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Online Spanish Dictionary Websites
Podcasts for Learning Spanish
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Spanish Aggregator

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Recommended Spanish Podcast

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