Language and Conversion Tools for Mexico
Learning Spanish
Among the challenges of living in Mexico, for Americans, is using Spanish on a daily basis. Language
immersion classes are helpful, but there is no substitute for homework and study. A fairly compact, useful
dictionary, available from Amazon, is The University of Chicago Spanish-English
Dictionary, Fifth Edition.
501 Spanish Verbs: with CD-ROM
(Barron's
Foreign Language Guides);
Convert Units
Several unit conversion tools are available. Click to a basic unit conversion tool.
Or see the food page, which features Spanish names for herbs and spices and unit conversion tools for cooking. You can convert the units in your recipes and look up the Spanish names of ingredients before heading to the market. The page also has links to a site about traditional Mexican markets, and to a page about Mexican produce which might not be familiar.
Exchange Dollars for Pesos or Pesos for Dollars
The online currency exchange tool reports Mexican Peso – US Dollar and Mexican Peso – Canadian Dollar rates.
Convert Temperature
The food page also has a temperature conversion tool to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit or Fahrenheit to Celsius.
Language Resources
Google Translate
You can translate words, phrases, individual web pages, or the text portions of entire websites with
Computer translation such as this is not ideal, but can usually help you grasp concepts.
Online Spanish Dictionaries
There are nearly 200,000 resutls on Google for online Spanish dictionary;
here are
some of the top results:
- Span¡shD!ct
- www.spanishdict.com/
- WordReference.com (also has a verb conjugator)
- www.wordreference.com/
- Freedict.com
- www.freedict.com/
- American Heritage® on Yahoo! Education
- education.yahoo.com/
