INTERNET LINKS - FOREIGN LANGUAGES
UPDATED 02/22/08

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
TOPICS
FRENCH AND SPANISH COOKING, SPAIN, LATIN, GYPSY CULTURE IN SPAIN, FRENCH LANGUAGE SITES

FRENCH AND SPANISH COOKING

RecipeSource : your source for recipes on the Internet
http://www.recipesource.com/
A extensive collection of recipes arranged by type and by country.
WWW 641.5 SOA    COOKING

Epicurious: food, drink, recipes, cooking tips, shopping, and more
http://food.epicurious.com
A large commercial site with a broad range of food-related topics.  Includes a database of over 12,000 recipes. Advanced search capability allows searching by ethnic origin.
WWW 641.5 EPI    COOKING

Sally's Place
http://www.sallys-place.com/food/ethnic_cusine/ethnic_cusine.htm
Searchable and interactive archive of food and travel information.

French cuisine
http://frenchfood.miningco.com
Recipes and frequently updated articles on various aspects of French food, wine, and travel. Includes links to other French food-related sites.

I found these specific links within the site listed above--they looked very good!
 

Medieval European recipes
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html
This is a great resource of information and recipes for students studying French cuisine history.

Dinner in Alsace
http://frenchfood.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa120198.htm
Enjoy a fast, delicious meal from the Alsace Lorraine region of France.

GENERAL INFORMATION (HISTORY, LITERATURE, ARTS)
 
Languages: helpful sites for students of Spanish
http://www.geocities.com/~oberoi/language.html#spanish
Although this is a personal web site it has some interesting links to other sites related to Spanish history, language, literature, and the arts.

Spain: a country study
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/estoc.html
This site is produced by the Library of Congress and has excellent information on the history, government, and other topics related to Spain.

Si, Spain
http://www.DocuWeb.ca/SiSpain/english
Information on Spanish current affairs and its historical, linguistic and cultural development from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 

SPANISH ART AND ARTISTS
 
WebMuseum
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm
This is a personal website with links to resources related to art. Excellent links to sites on the web related to Spanish art and architecture.


SPANISH MUSIC
 

Flamencoworld.com
http://flamenco-world.com
This is a bilingual site with excellent resources on Spanish music.


BULLFIGHTING

 
Tauromaquia
http://coloquio.com/toros.html
Bullfighting resources, including including history, essays, and paintings. In Spanish and English.

The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/european/TheZincali-AnAccountoftheGypsiesofSpain/chap1.html

The Gypsies
http://www.1upinfo.com/country-guide-study/spain/spain59.html

Ethnic Minorities
http://www.sispain.org/english/populati/ethnic.html

The Gypsies
http://countrystudies.us/spain/41.htm

 

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LATIN LINKS

National Committee for Latin and Greek
http://promotelatin.org/
The purpose of the NCLG is to initiate and coordinate efforts to promote the study of Latin and Greek.

Resources for the study of Latin
http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~corax/latgram.html

FRENCH LANGUAGE SITES

ClicNet: Francais langue etrangere et langue seconde "French as a foreign and second language"
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/fle.html
This excellent site is a great jumping off point for websites that help beginning students.

French verb conjugation reference
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/vcr/
This site will conjugate any verb you enter.

Le devoir conjugal "One's conjugal duties"
http://www.pomme.ualberta.ca/devoir/default.htm
Another site for conjugating French verbs.

Le Truc de Genres "Figuring out gender"
http://www.fourmilab.ch/francais/gender.html
Guide for the genre of French nouns.

Acquiring French vocabulary
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/vocab.html
This site links to may other sites containing grammar tests, vocabulary lists and drills. It also includes a section on topical vocabulary on anything from politics, to cuisine, wine, medicine.

The French tutorial
http://www.helio.org/education/french
Here is an online textbook for beginning French that includes samples of correct pronunciation.

TF1
http://www.tf1.fr
One of France's main television stations with a very up-to-date website.

M6
http://www.m6.fr
M6 is the French equivalent of MTV. The site includes the latest French videos.
 
 
 

 
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