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Native speakers (Argentina, El Salvador, Mexico) talking about many topics.

This website takes stories from the news and translates them into Spanish. You can then listen to the story read by a native speaker at two different speeds. Additionally each word or phrase in the article when hovered over shows the English translation of the word. The website has many articles available at any given time, so students are able to find something that is interesting to them. 

From Netspeak: "To write in a foreign language is a difficult task, even for an experienced author. Problems include choosing the right word or preposition in a given context, finding a wording which is commonly used, and avoiding the use of grammatical forms which reflect the author's native language. The Netspeak Web service assists authors to overcome these issues by using the World Wide Web as a source of common language. The service can be queried with short text phrases to determine their customariness on the Web. Wildcard characters can be added to the query to search for variations and synonyms of the query phrase, which will be returned as ranked list with respect to their occurence frequency on the Web."

Center for Applied Linguistics site for resources - programs, workshops, articles, digests, books

Short videos of native speakers responding to topical questions. Can be used for Interpretive listening activities. Searchable by topic/proficiency level.