Gavilan College Spanish CD index page

Text only version - click here for the Graphic version of the page.

The Spanish CDs listed below are available to Gavilan College students and Faculty.

The CDs can be purchased at the Computer Lab L168/L171, ask at the desk.
Cost for each CD is $10.00

If you cannot get to the Gilroy Campus Computer Lab,
you can order any CD online via PayPal
(free shipping for a limited time)

All CDs are for MS Windows® only and support current versions, 95 thru XP

Click here for notes on VISTA, glitches & fixes
 

Gavilan Spanish Review - GASPAR Program CD

This CD contains the GASPAR program with the lab exercises, the Dictionary (English-Spanish), and the Spanish add-ins for Microsoft Word.

Language level: Beginning thru Advanced
Click here for more details

Current Version: 2.20
If you already have an earlier version of the GASPAR CD, you can exchange it, free of charge, for version 2.20 - just bring your CD to the lab.

Don Quijote Multimedia CD      *UPDATED*

Produced by Gavilan College for the IV Centenario: 400 years since the first publication of Cervantes' masterpiece in 1605.
Now contains both Part I and Part II.

Synchronized side-by-side views of
 • Folio - facsimile of the 1608/1615 Cuesta editions
 • Spanish text - the 1911 Madrid edition
 • English text - the 1612/1620 Shelton, 1885 Ormsby translations
plus
 • Spanish audio - read by Camilo García Casar
 • Dictionary of classical Spanish terms
 • Index of names, places, events

Language level: Intermediate thru Advanced
Click here for the online version of the initial chapters

Spanish Multimedia Encyclopedia

The Premier Spanish Online Encyclopedia on CD. Now even better with built-in dictionary, including English translations.

An extremely useful reference tool for any type of research or assignment, with all the information presented in Spanish.

Version: 2004
Language level: Intermediate thru Advanced
Click here for more details

Diccionario de la Lengua Española

This is the dictionary issued by the Royal Spanish Academy, the Real Academia Española, the ultimate authority on the Spanish language.

Note: this is not a translating dictionary, it is entirely in Spanish: when you look up a word, the definition will also be in Spanish.
(Similar to Webster's dictionary for English...)

Version: 22nd edition, 2003
Language level: Intermediate thru Advanced
Click here for a sample page

Francisco Jiménez, Cajas de cartón

Relatos de la vida peregrina de un niño campesino

Part of the Colección Voz Viva
These are the stories that made Francisco Jiménez famous.
Includes biography, full text with dictionary access, and audio.

Language level: Intermediate thru Advanced
Click here for an online sample

Carlos Fuentes, Aura

Part of the Colección Voz Viva
A story of love across time, of ghosts and shadows, where the line between dream and reality vanishes in the search for eternal youth, beauty and remembrance.

This short story is read by the author, with Natasha Fuentes supplying the voice of Aura. Includes biography, full text with dictionary access, audio, and English synopsis.

Language level: Intermediate thru Advanced

Dámaso Alonso, Antología personal

Part of the Colección Voz Viva
A selection of his poetry, interpreted by the Author.
Includes biography, full text with dictionary access, and audio.

Language level: Intermediate thru Advanced
Click here for the online version

Luis Astrana Marín,
Vida ejemplar y heroica de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
with Index and Chronology of Cervantes' Life, by Phyllis S. Emerson

This CD is for Academic Use Only
 

new CDs coming, check back often...

Address of this page is: http://hhh.gavilan.edu/fmayrhofer/spanish/text/index.html.
Last updated on 01/29/2008.
Send questions or comments to Franz Mayrhofer at fmayrhofer@gavilan.edu.