Open Educational Resources (OERs): Languages

This is the first book in a three book series and is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school. Links to books two and three are provided.

Sons et lettres provides a set of classroom materials to train students to hear and produce the sounds of French and to recognize the regular spellings used to represent those sounds in print. The materials are inspired by a desire to help students feel more confident about their French pronunciation and more at home saying the many French words, familiar and unfamiliar, which they encounter in their studies, in French media and in their travels. Includes linked listening and speaking exercises.

A first-year college French textbook with a true communicative approach. Both a student version and instructor version are available.

This book is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. The Prologue and chapter introductions use circumlocution to facilitate comprehension, and include concrete examples of the concepts presented. Includes over 4000 vocabulary, historical and cultural annotations to facilitate reading and comprehension.

A complete, interactive curriculum for intermediate-level learners of Spanish.

COERLL produces online language learning materials (for example language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, and corpora) for teachers to adopt, adapt, modify, and share, and also provides professional development tools for teachers.

From the University of Texas, this resource provides exercises, assessments, and more.

The mission of the language center is to "Increase multilingualism amongst students and staff of the University; promoting, encouraging and supporting the learning of languages for personal, academic and professional purposes."

An educational resource for teaching and learning languages. Free materials for for many different languages.

Lessons, phrases, vocabulary, tests, and links to news sources in 40 languages. Site is no longer updated, but most resources are still very useful.

List of resources (for mostly French, Spanish and German) compiled as part of a federally funded grant to identify open educational resources for World Language teachers in Maine.