SPAN 087: Cruzando Fronteras (SC) Spring 2015: Spanish Dictionaries

By Real Academia Española

El Diccionario de la RAE es la obra de referencia para más de 500 millones de hablantes de español en todo el mundo.

The dictionary of choice by Gabriel García Márquez:"Moliner wrote, with her bare hands, the most complete, most useful, most diligent and most amusing dictionary of the Castilian language".

"The dictionary includes words that are native to the Americas as well as those that originated in Spain but whose meaning has been modified. It also lists words that although no longer used in Spain, are kept alive in the different varieties of Latin American Spanish. Over 70,000 words, complex lexemes and phrases; over 120,000 meanings communication and lexicalization * Sociolinguistic distinctions (socio-economic level, linguistic style, social value) for each meaning

Ed. by Gabriela Parada Valdés

By Real Academia Espanola. Guides users throughout the proper use of the Spanish language. It is a work conceived from all the Hispanic countries, which maintains a fundamental balance between the variety of a languages spoken in so many different regions, and the linguistic unity that must be preserved. It includes: Most frequently used words from other languages; Solutions to very diverse grammatical problems; Information on the rules of accentuation; Models of verbal conjugations; and more.

300 capsules clarifying the correct use of the Spanish language. It includes the most common errors made by Spanish speakers in the USA.

Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española

Instituto Cervantes

Real Academia Espanola

Una gramática académica que refleja todas las variedades del español, el resultado de once años de intenso trabajo de las veintidós Academias de la Lengua Española. Un mapa de la unidad y variedad del español, una obra práctica que, uniendo tradición y modernidad, fija la norma para todos los hispanohablantes. De Buenos Aires a La Habana, de México a Medellín, de Los Ángeles a Madrid.