About Us
SalónEspañol.com is a place for Spanish-language students and native speakers to discuss culture, books, history, and find Spanish-language resources. Our purpose is to mix humor and education, encyclopedia with irreverence.
Features. And if you can’t find on your own the meaning for a particular word, a concept clarification, that maddening nuance that sometimes makes the Spanish-language impossible, then you can ask Mr. Guerrero directly. That is one feature: AskMe.
Other feature is Spanish-Go. Mr. Guerrero takes current issues, ideas, trends and important scientific findings and turns them into practical-applied Spanish lessons. If you are learning English, well, they are English lessons. He has created a new genre combining journalism and linguistics. And his style is encyclopedic and irreverent. Mr. Guerrero believes that laughter is the greatest motivator for learning.
For Spanish-speakers and more advanced students Salón Español offers the features Opinionado and Memorista. Opinionado means opinionated. Here you can find Mr. Guerrero’s reviews of books, film, theater, websites, and his cultural, social and political criticism. His columns appear in publications in Europe, Latin America and the US. Memorista is an idiosyncratic historian. Here you can find his takes on cultural history, memoirs, family anecdotes, meditations and fiction.
Resource-Central. Everything you need for a rich Spanish-language journey. Starting with Last. FM. Based in London, Last.FM is an inteactive personal radio that allows you to create your own programs. Go to Listen and then enter the name of your favorite musician and it will create a program based on similar artists.
Video. YouTube has great interviews with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa. And a rare finding: Pablo Neruda reading Poema 15. You can read along by going to Memorist Poesía que quiero. It also has great musical videos. Just search the name you want.
Publications. MIT Library Spanish News and Magazines offers a list of newspapers and magazine from Spain and Latin America.
At Salón Español Library you can find great technical resources from a test to determine your Spanish level to the Diccionario de la Real Academia. From machine translation to Medical Encyclopedias in Spanish to electronic verb conjugations for 10 thousand Spanish verbs.
Salón Español has much more. Go and discover. And remember that October is the month to feel Hispanic, so say hola, and smile.