Spanish English readings

February 21, 2008 4:25 PM

Can someone point me to print-out-able readings that are in English but have Spanish translations next to them?

Some of my ESL students are looking for readings in English that have the Spanish translation written next to it. The Spanish translation should be fairly literal.

Here's the catch- for some reason the institution (a prison) is a little weird about me bringing books in, but doesn't mind if I bring in print-outs. Print outs= teaching material. Books = sedition (or something).

Any suggestions?

posted by small_ruminant to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

Well you can find what you're looking for here, but I don't think it will let you print it out. I own this book and liked it quite a bit. It's very small so perhaps you could buy it and photocopy it?
posted by Enroute at 8:48 PM on February 21, 2008

Whoops, read the question Enroute! Sorry about that--the link is for Spanish to English. But perhaps it would still work in reverse.
posted by Enroute at 8:49 PM on February 21, 2008

Online there's this and a bunch of hits for periódico bilingüe.

If you're open to photocopying, I'd use Spanish translations of popular English books. Amazon has some books of bilingual poetry and some short story collections, but unfortunately except for the Walt Whitman all I could find was Spanish-to-English translations.

If your students are extremely advanced and fond of very dry texts, the EU and UN publish a lot of material in multiple languages! Fun for everyone.
posted by trig at 5:24 AM on February 22, 2008

Response by poster: Thanks, both of you. Looks like photocopying is the way to go.
posted by small_ruminant at 12:44 PM on February 24, 2008