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Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian

by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.

http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm
Good details on grammatical/vocabulary niceties of Spanish.

Mirella Soffio suggests the following three Italian/English/French dictionaries online:
http://www.edigeo-online.it/cgi-local/Hoepli/GDI
English>Italian and Italian>English.

http://www.demauroparavia.it/
Italian only.
http://www.garzantilinguistica.it/index.html
English/Italian/French.

http://www.geocities.com/susanacr_99/legal.htm
Nice Spanish-English legal glossary.

http://www.svv.ch/index.cfm?rub=103#
Michael Roehrig suggests this insurance glossary (German, English, French, Italian) with terms and explanations that "can be cross-combined among the four languages."

http://www.wordreference.com/
Multilingual dictionaries, very useful. Search is fast and smooth. Spanish><English, Italian><English, French><English, German><English, plus has the Collins English dictionary. Also has instructions for installing in Netscape or Internet Explorer to look up words on web pages if you're afflicted with Windows.

Spanish

http://www.abc.es/
“A super source to get news from Spain.”

http://www.ole.es/
“An incredible Spanish language internet search engine filled with surprises.”

La Jornada
http://serpiente.dgsca.unam.mx/jornada
“A wonderful Mexican daily."

http://cnnenespanol.com
José Pérez mentioned this on FLEFO: “CNN launched a Spanish-language news web site... People interested in Latin America might especially want to take a look, since it features much more news and information from Latin America than is usually available at most news sites.”

Portuguese

http://www.ciberduvidas.com
Valentim Santos recommends this site for Portuguese.

Italian

http://www.arianna.it
Chiara Faglia recommends this Italian search engine.