Modern Languages Research Starter

Maintained by the Cervantes Institute of Spain, this site contains information pertaining to Spanish language and culture.

From the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Provides over 12,000 links to quality Web resources for Latin America, arranged by country or by topic, such as economy, education, and government.

A topical portal to websites.

Links to scholarly resources about Spanish and Portuguese language and literature.

Spanish and Hispanoamerican literature.

2,000 digitized Spanish texts, mostly from the classical period.

List of links maintained by MIT; a variety of Spanish-speaking countries are represented.

Newspaper from Argentina

Travel information for Spain.

Travel information from the Mexico Tourism Board.

Provides links to African francophone media, literature sites and sites that provide information about various French-speaking African countries.

Maintained by French Professor Bob Peckham of the University of Tennessee, links to over 10,000 sites.

Annotated links to scholarly web resources on history, culture and politics.

French newspaper.

A French daily newspaper.

Official tourism site for Quebec.

French Tourist Office.

The Louvre: one of the world's largest collections of art.

A detailed current profile and historical overview of Germany, with separate sections on its geography, economy, government, transportation and telecommunications, foreign relations, national security, languages, religions, and people and society. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and statistical tables. Searchable. The bulk of the website was written in 1994, with updates. From the Library of Congress's Country Studies.

A catalog of annotated links in the categories of arts, culture, language, economy, politics, law, science, tourist accommodations and attractions, cities, media, and more. The directory is available in English and German; the resources linked to are in a variety of languages including German, English, Spanish, French, and Italian. From the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes.

From the University of Manitoba Libraries, this extensive site lists online resources for literature, film, history, language and media.

A searchable and browsable directory of links to "scholarly resources in German Studies, including all German-speaking countries." Topics include books, information technology and librarianship, literature, art, German-language newspapers, library catalogs, reference sources, and digital texts and images. Briefly annotated.

Lists websites for learning the German language for business and cultural purposes. Sponsored by German Language Institute TREFFPUNKT.

The major bibliography for German language and literature. Commonly referred to as Eppelsheimer Köttelwesch, it has been produced since 1957 by the library at the university at Frankfurt/Main. Each volume of the BDSL contains over 15,000 references from books, magazines and newspapers to articles about German language and literature. Volumes from 1985-1997 are freely available online.
1985-1997

Digitized texts by German authors, arranged by alphabetically by author's last name.

Digital texts by German authors. Hosted by Der Spiegel. The German counterpart to the English edition.

Berlin Newspaper

Newspaper from Germany

Newspaper from Germany

Newspaper from Switzerland

The DEFA [(Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft)] Film Library "is the only archive and study center outside Europe devoted to the study of the cinema of the former GDR [German Democratic Republic] as well as films dealing with Eastern Germany since unification." The site features a list of available films, and a variety of teaching and resource materials, including bibliographies, information about DEFA film criticism, a list of archives and study centers, a discussion list, and related links.

The official site of the German National Tourist Board.