Wordreference dictionary is excellent, SpanishDict probably easier to use for beginners though.
Below is a list of apps and resources for my lower sixth students, I edited out the material to cover a more appropriate level , there are some brilliant things to be found there. Thanks to my HoD who contributed a lot of it. Obviously some is past beginner level, but may prove useful.
Do try
http://www.languagesonline.org.uk/Hotpotatoes/Index.htm- very good for beginners and up vocab and grammar
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http://www.rtve.es News (noticias), Live TV (television en directo), Live radio (RNE en directo) and links to RNE poscasts, documentaries (“Somos Documentales”), weather, cinema, food… [mobile app available]
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http://www.audiria.com/ Listening practice with transcripts and exercises.
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http://www.elmundo.es and
http://www.elpais.com Spanish newspapers online [mobile app available]
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http://es.euronews.com/noticias/en-directo TV Euronews in Spanish-with transcripts
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http://oye.languageskills.co.uk/index.html Different activities for different levels,
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http://quizlet.com/ Make your own vocabulary/ grammar flashcards and revision games and views the materials made by others such as these
http://quizlet.com/Glenn_Smith15.
http://www.wordreference.com/ Bilingual online dictionary and forum (English-Spanish and Spanish-English) with links to other language support tools.
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http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-spanish Collins online dictionary, great to use for reading comprehension or translations.
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http://lingro.com Paste the link for the article you are reading in French and you can hover to find out what the key words mean in English.
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http://mflteacher.com/ Click on Spanish, then on Gramática to find a page with excellent grammar notes, exercises and links to other sites to practise Spanish grammar
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http://www.languagesresources.co.uk/ Great resources for different levels, including reading comprehension practice and worksheets.
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http://servicios.ideal.es/videos/# Brilliant videos on a huge range of topics. Try summarising what they say, for practice.
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http://www.20minutos.es/ Accessible reading and video clips. [mobile app available]
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http://sacodeyl.inf.um.es/sacodeyl-search2/ Select Spanish Corpus from the drop-down menu to access a series of videos of Spaniards talking about different topics.
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http://www.aulaintercultural.org/ Intercultural education, useful for A2 topics like immigration.
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http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/ American and world news in Spanish.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ BBC world news in Spanish [mobile app available]
MOBILE APPs for Spanish:
+tve (free) App to view capture clips from National Spanish TV
Rtve.es móvil (free) App to watch all Spanish TV
El país (free) Leading Spanish newspaper
El Mundo (free) Leading Spanish newspaper
20minutos.es (free) Live news feed in Spanish
BBC Mundo (free) Live news feed in Spanish
WatchTV (free) App to access a wide range of foreign-speaking TV channels for free
Grabadora de radio español (free) App to listen and record snippets from the Spanish radio-great for listen and transcribe practice.
Dítelo (£1.49) text-to-speech software (works for French and many other languages). Type what you want to say in Spanish and listen to it being spoken back to you. You can slow it down as needed.
CNN México (free) Live news feed from Mexico (local and world news)
Fotogramas (free) Cinema news (AS and A2) and trailers in Spanish
Duo linguo (free) Great to practise listening, speaking, reading and writing. All levels
Quizlet (free) Make your own flashcards and vocab/ grammar games; view materials made by others.
Popplet lite (free) Popplet (£2.99) Mind-mapping software, great for essay planning and revision.
iRAE (free) Dictionary from the Real Academia Española
Sinónimos (£0.69) Spanish thesaurus-great for essays
Wordreference (free) Bilingual dictionary with online forum to ask questions to native speakers
Conjugation Nation Spanish (£1.99) Fantastic app to devise your own verb practice quizzes
English-Spanish verb conjugator-word magic (£0.69) Useful verb reference
Las portadas (free) Look at the headlines from the Spanish-speaking press around the world