Dr. Derek A. Petrey, Associate
Professor in Spanish, Coordinator of Modern Languages,
Honors
Program Director, Sinclair Community
College
Welcome to my homepage!
Please report any broken links.
Here is the WebCAPE login page
[the on-line site for placement in Spanish, French, and German].
Info on the Conversation Tables in many languages!
Class materials
Links of
interest:
Spanish
at your fingertips:
·
Look
at cartoons in Spanish by Argentine cartoonist Quino, internationally famous for Mafalda
and his social commentary.
·
Read
cultural essays on Hispanics in America!
·
Explore
becoming a language teacher
·
Take
a trip… here are some study abroad programs that some of my students have
recommended:
Blogs
in Spanish:
A weB
LOG is something like an online diary that people use to publish their
thoughts online. Why do people do this? Are they driven by some
uncanny need to make their daily life and inner thoughts open to the whole
world? Who knows? I do find some of them quite entertaining,
though. Here are some in Spanish that I especially like:
· Las Noches de Sherezade (Scheherezade's [Arabian] Nights), a surrealistic page
dedicated to the heroine of the Arabian Nights stories.
News
in Spanish:
Study aids,
learning materials
General
For Spanish 101:
Vocabulary reviews:
·
Prelim. Chapter Review (Ante todo)
two exercises