http://www.ata-divisions.org/MD/medical-translation-resources.htm
Medical Division of ATA
http://www.consejeria.df.gob.mx/legislativos/archivo_general/ordenacion.html
Documentos legales, notariales de Mexico. Good for sight translation Spanish > English.
http://www.wordreference.com/ for consultation on translation
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/ This page has links to Latin American newspapers and a lot more from around the world.
http://www.saccourt.com/geninfo/legal_glossaries/legal_glossaries.asp legal glossaries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wonderful encyclopedia, collaborative effort, various languages
http://www.acronymfinder.com/about.asp List of acronyms
http://www.proz.com/ Great for terminology discussion, consultation with colleagues.
http://www.irs.gov/ - publications - Glossary of Spanish-English Terms.
http://www.ssa.gov/ Social Security Administration has a good glossary. Publications.
www.orgsites.com/ny/mvoiti/http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/ Phonetics
http://www.rae.es/ DRAE Diccionario de la Real Academia Española.
http://www.terra.com.ar/ links to Radio Continental and news sites from Argentina
http://www.clarin.com/ Diario argentino. Links to Radio Mitre
http://www.legalinttrans.info/ Recommended reading, listening
Prior Bad Acts, by Tami Hoag – on tape, disks – great for context and vocab.
http://www.othertongues.net/audiobooks.html
books on tape, Spanish and other languages, resources for audio tape, cd mp3 downloads from NY library – out of state residents $100 for library card.
TIPS:
Your local public library may have audiobooks in foreign languages.
Use portable, variable speed tape players to slow down books-on-tape. Click here.
AUDIOBOOKS IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT ONLINE
The New York Public Library's Collection of Audiobooks http://ebooks.nypl.org/ Download auidobooks from the library as WMA files. Free for residents of New York State. Non-residents of New York can apply for a library card, $100 annual fee. Many of their audiobooks are in the public domain and can be burned to CD, while others cannot. Files can be played on your PC or downloaded to a portable device that plays WMAs for the duration of the library's lending period. The software available from the library does not convert even files to any format except WMA, but software to convert WMAs to MP3s and other formats is available online. One example is www.wma-mp3.com/
www.digitalbookindex.org/foreignlangs.htm Digital Books Index's catalog of foreign language sites for eBooks
http://www.audiolibros.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.100.exe/titles_e.htm?E+scstore AudioLibros
http://www.worldlanguage.com/Products/Spanish/AudioBooks/Page1.htm World Language: Direct link to list of more than 200 AudioLibros on CD and cassette
http://www.audioeditions.com/showcat.cfm?catname=Spanish&subcat=ALL Audio Editions: Twelve pages of audiobooks in Spanish
http://www.audiobookcentral.com/ Tip: On "Catalog" look under "Foreign Language Study", then "Spanish" then "Foreign Language Content". Also, look under "Fiction" then "Foreign Language Content"
http://www.foreignaudiobooks.com/ Foreign Audio Books
http://www.audiocoleccion.com/ AudioColeccion Located in Valencia, Spain. Books that Speak to You. Jorge at AudioColeccion writes: "The AudioColeccion offers 'movies with no image', with many castings of top actors."
A Few Recommended Titles:
"Como Agua Para Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel
"La Ciudad de las Bestias" by Isabel Allende
"Aura" by Carlos Fuentes
"Cristina" by Cristina Saralegui, TV talk show host and journalist
"Mi Hermana Frida" by Barbara Mujica
"Bendíceme, Última¨by Rudolfo Anaya
"El Diario de Claudia Eugenia" by Jose Manuel Villalpando Also: Refer to recommendations of books on tape from Clara Grebel: http://www.portlandspanish.com/booksontape.htm
You can also find news and information podcasts in Spanish for download as MP3s at various sites. A few are:
Al Grano con Maria Hinojosa (USA): www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510217Download these biweekly podcasts from NPR as an MP3. (Unfortunately this series appears to have been discontinued, but archived podcasts are still available.)
Colombia Informa (Colombia): http://www.earthmusicnetwork.com/colombiainforma/%22. Download and listen to the most recent episode as an MP3.
Democracy Now! Los Titulares de Hoy: Daily news summary translated into Spanish, http://www.democracynow.org/. Go to "Browse Archives by Date" and download the daily news summary as an MP3.
Desde al Bano: http://desdeelbano.blogspot.com/
BBC Mundo Radio live in 33 languages: www.bbc.co.uk/radio/RSS feed text examples:* BBC Mundo Hoy: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/mh/rss.xml * BBC Enlace: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/enlace/rss.xml
