Modern and Medieval Languages
see also History and Modern Languages and Linguistics
Books
- The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
- A Concise History of [X Country] published by Cambridge University Press
- French/German/Italian/Russian/Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction published by Oxford University Press
General books: see Authors for language specific recommendations of literature (and film)
Journals/articles
For newspapers in other languages, see links below in websites section
Authors
French
Text: Albert Camus L’étranger, Françoise Sagan Bonjour tristesse, Joseph Joffo Un sac de billes.
Film: Jean-Luc Godard A bout de souffle, Mathieu Kassovitz La Haine, Laurent Cantet Entre les murs.
German
Text: Franz Kafka Die Verwandlung, Friedrich Dürrenmatt Der Besuch der alten Dame, Bernhard Schlink Der Vorleser.
Films: Wolfgang Becker Goodbye, Lenin!, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Das Leben derAnderen, Marc Rothemund Sophie Scholl Die letzten Tage.
Italian
Text: Italo Svevo La coscienca di Zeno, Primo Levi Se questo è un uomo, Natalia Ginzburg Lessico famigliare.
Films: Vittorio di Sica Ladri di bicicletta, Federico Fellini La dolce vita, Matteo Gorrone Gomorrah.
Portuguese
Text: José Saramago A viagem do elefante, Lygia Fagundes Telles Antes do Baile Verde, Luís Bernardo Honwana, Nós matámos o cão tinhoso.
Films: Margarida Cardoso, A costa dos murmúrios, Walter Salles Central do Brasil, Fernando Mereilles and Kátia Lund Cidade de Deus.
Russian
Text: Natalia Baranskaia A week like any other, short stories by Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol Revizor.
Films: Andrey Zvyagintsev Leviathan, Sergei Bodrov Prisoner of the Mountains, Andrei Tarkovskii Ivan’s childhood.
Spanish
Text: Federico García Lorca La casa de Bernarda Alba, Gabriel García Márquez Crónica de una muerte anunciada, Isabel Allende La casa de los espíritus.
Films: Guillermo del Toro El laberinto del fauno, Pedro Almodóvar Volver, Sebastián Leilo Una mujer fantástica.
Websites
General
- MyHEPlus
- The TLS: Languages & Linguistics
- Arte in English
- Memrise - language-learning app
French
- Le Monde - Actualités et Infos en France et dans le monde
- Le Figaro - Actualité en direct et informations en continu
- Libération
- Culturethèque
- MYTF1 : TF1, TMC, TFX et TF1 Séries Films en replay ou en direct and France 2 - French TV channels
- L'Express
- Tune In: Radio Television Caraibes
- Sud Quotidien - one of Senegal's main daily papers
- La Presse - French Canadian news
German
- Online resources for German - Dozens of links to newspapers, videos, podcasts, museum and cultural institutions, dictionaries and much more!
- Der Spiegel - Online-Nachrichten
Italian
- Corriere della Sera - Ultime Notizie
- Rai - Italian TV
- LA7 - Italian TV
- Rai PlaySound - Italian radio
- La Repubblica – newspaper
- La Stampa – newspaper
- italia.it - Italian places of interest
Portuguese
- Porta dos Fundos - Brazilian comedy group (with English subititles)
- Jornal Público - Portugal newspaper
- Expresso - Portugal newspaper
- BBC Brazil
- O Globo - Brazil newspaper
- Valor - Brazil newspaper
- RTP - Portuguese TV and radio
- EBC - Brazilian TV and radio
Russian
- aif.ru - news
- gazeta.ru – news
- RG.ru- news
- FSUE Mosfilm cinema concern YouTube channel - films, many with English subtitles
Spanish
- Corpus de conversaciones en español: short clips featuring everyday conversations with speakers from various Spanish-speaking countries.
- Catálogo de voces hispánicas (Instituto Cervantes): short clips featuring examples of Spanish from different parts of Spain and Latin America
- Spanishpodcast: podcasts of Spanish speakers in a variety of situations, discussing a range of topics. With transcripts.
- Lyricstraining: listen to your favourite music while listening to Spanish and improving your listening skills and vocabulary.
- Prensa escrita: links to all daily papers in the Hispanic world.
- BBC Mundo
- RTVE Televisión española - Spanish TV
Video
See website links above
Other
History and Modern Languages
Books
- MMLL department resources for students
- History faculty suggested reading
- Pierre Nora, Realms of Memory
- Ludmilla Jordanova, History in Practice
- Edward Saïd, Orientalism
Journals/articles
- History Today magazine
- HistoryExtra: BBC History Magazine & BBC World Histories Magazine
- EL PAÍS: el periódico global
- LeMonde.fr - Actualités et Infos en France et dans le monde
- Le Figaro - Actualité en direct et informations en continu
- Libération
- Der Spiegel | Online-Nachrichten
- Sud Quotidien - one of Senegal's main daily papers
- La Presse – French Canadian news
- Corriere della Sera - Ultime Notizie
- Jornal Público, Portugal newspaper
- Expresso, Portugal newspaper
- O Globo, Brazil newspaper
- Valor, Brazil newspaper
- aif.ru - news
- gazeta.ru – news
- RG.ru - news
- Prensa escrita: links to all daily papers in the Hispanic world
Websites
- History Today magazine
- BBC History: British History in-depth
- Memrise - language-learning app
- CRISCO - Dictionnaire des synonymes
- MYTF1 : TF1, TMC, TFX et TF1 Séries Films en replay ou en direct
- El Ministerio del Tiempo
- Money Heist - Netflix
Video
HML at Cambridge - department video (YouTube)
Podcasts
Linguistics
See the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Preliminary Reading list
