We are currently developing an exciting new tool which will augment the LinguaPro/SPANISH™  tutorial and reference system.  This new tool, the Spanish Literature Assistant™, will provide up to 1000 original Spanish texts on a single CD-ROM, together with a 60,000+ word dictionary and a verb reference of more than 15,000 fully conjugated Spanish verbs.  The Literature Assistant™ will allow you to read any of these texts with an explicit definition given for EVERY word.  Every time you move the cursor to highlight a new word or phrase, the Literature Assistant™ will display a complete definition, and for verbs, the person and tense.  The Dictionary and Verb Reference will be invocable at any time while you are reading or comparing texts.  More importantly, the Literature Assistant™ will show ALL sentences from within the 1000+ work corpus that utilize the highlighted word or phrase.  This will supplement the dictionary definition by providing a virtually instantaneous display of hundreds or thousands of sentences that illustrate all shades of meaning for that particular word.  Also, the Literature Assistant ™will support linguistic queries of a general nature to allow advanced students to search for grammatical constructions of interest.  

  If you are interested in reading original Spanish texts, then you should take a look at this truly amazing web site.  The University of Alicante is well underway with their massive project of making about 30,000 original Spanish works available online.