Spanish: Periódicos: Newspapers

• El País (Madrid-based daily newspaper)
• ABC (One of Spain's oldest national newspapers)
• El Mundo (Spain's second largest national newspaper
• La Vanguardia (this newspaper is printed in both Spanish and Catalan)

Reading newspapers can help you get a feel for the language as read and written by native speakers. The standard dialect and matter-of-fact text can help you acquire a basic understanding of the stories and headlines, as well as give you an insight into the media landscape and local culture. Check out some of the Spanish and Hispanophone newspapers highlighted here to get started:

• El Norte (from Monterrey, Mexico)
• Diario de Mallorca (from Mallorca, Spain)
• El Camercio (from Lima, Peru)
• La Nacion (from Argentina)
• El Siglo (from Panama)
• El Nuevo Dia (from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico)
• El Tiempo (from Bogotá, Colombia)
• El Nacional (from Caracas, Venezuela)
• El Mercurio (from Santiago, Chile)
• La Hora (from Guatemala City, Guatemala)
• El Comercio (from Quito, Ecuador)
• La Razón(from La Paz, Bolivia)
• Granma (from Havana, Cuba)
• El Caribe (from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
• El Heraldo (from Tegucigalpa, Honduras)
• ABC Color (from Asunción, Paraguay)
• La Prensa (from Managua, Nicaragua)
• Diario Co Latino (from San Salvador, El Salvador)
• Diario Extra (from San José, Costa Rica)
• El Pais (from Montevideo, Uruguay)
• Revista Real (from Malabo, Equatorial Guinea)
• La Opinión (from Los Angeles, USA)

 Studying spoken Spanish is a great way to improve your Spanish listening and comprehension skills. With online radio stations, you don't even need a Hispanophone friend to start practicing, just tune in to one of the stations below to get started:

• Radio stations from around Spain
• Radio stations from around the Hispanophone world