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FREE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS

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PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE ALL FREE RESOURCES:


THE VAST MAJORITY OF THESE RESOURCES ARE TEXTBOOKS (or RESOURCES) FROM ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS:

RESOURCES include traditional textbooks, as well as Lesson Plans, Audio tapes with pronunciation guides, Grammar and lots of Grammar exercises, plus readings to improve comprehension, and all the tools one would expect in the traditional foreign language classroom.

 

 

 

 

TEACHERS: PLEASE NOTE THAT the SPANISH SECTION HAS RESOURCES SPECIFICALLY FOR CONSULAR ADJUDICATORS, inluding specialized vocabulary.

 

 

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTES: THESE WILL HELP STUDENTS AND TEACHERS LOCATE ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE MATERIAL:

 

OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES BY DISCIPLINE IS PROVIDED BY KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY (MARIETTA, GEORGIA)

Includes Open Access resources for Foreign Languages and Area Studies with free textbooks and other useful resources -- all free. This is an incredibly useful resource, and updated frequently.

 

 

 

FREE LANGUAGE LEARNING FROM THE U.S. PEACE CORPS LANGUAGE COURSES:

https://www.livelingua.com/peace-corps/

 

 

 

MORE FREE LANGUAGE RESOURCES MAY BE FOUND VIA LIBRETEXTSCOERLL: THE CENTER FOR OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING  and OERTX. 

 

 

 

The University of Kansas's Open Language Resource Center is another invaluable resource; especially their Faculty Projects concentrating on language education for a variety of languages. The University of Kansas, Lawrence, is committed to free, Open Access language materials. Please check out their web site often as it is frequently updated with new or updated language materials and resources.

 

 

 

PLEASE FIND OER TEXTBOOKS BOOKS ON MANY FOREIGN LANGUAGES FROM THE MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OER = OPEN EDUCATIONAL ACCESS 

 (Type Russian, German, Spanish, etc. in the Search Engine from the Maryland Dept of Education; includes textbooks on Grammar and Pronunciation and Culture. Includes ALL Topics/Subjects/Themes such as Science and Medicine.)

 

This is a NEW Search Engine and results are updated every month  --new resources will be found on a monthly basis. (THIS IS A VALUABLE SEARCH ENGINE -- PLEASE DO USE IT)

 

 

 

 

💡 🗝️ Another new Search Engine for locating free textbooks

 https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT

 This Search Engine will work for any subject: try Engineering, Philosophy, Economics, Italian, etc. 

 

 

 

 

IDEAS FOR LANGUAGE IMMERSION FIELD TRIPS: PRESENTING IDEAS FOR STUDENTS TO PRACTICE REAL-LIFE LANGUAGE SKILLS. IDEAS COME FROM a VARIETY of UNIVERSITIES AND THE U.S. PEACE CORPS: 

  Field Trip Ideas for Effective Student Language Immersion.pdf

 

 

 

OERTX is yet another highly useful resource that includes numerous foreign language texts, materials, resources, and even flashcards.  

 As an example, in the OERTX Search Engine, type Portuguese or Chinese or Spanish (or any other language) to find related materials, texts, and resources in these languages.  

OERTX offers truly helpful and amazing resources to teachers and students of foreign languages.

 

 

 

The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) e-learning portal from the University of Maryland is also incredibly useful to Foreign Language learners.

This site does require a login. The NFLC's Portal lists the languages available.  

("Access to the portal is free. Simply create an account and you'll have immediate access to all of the content.")

 

 

 

Many other resources are now newly available from the University of Ottawa's OER by Discipline Guide.  

 The sections on "Modern Languages and Literatures"  and "Official Languages and Bilingualism" are simply marvelous.

 

 

 

KU's Open Educational Resources in the Humanities includes many languages -- with readings, questions for students, and resources, including texts. 

 (University of Kansas = KU)

 

 

 

TEXTBOOKS IN SPANISH and other LANGUAGES ARE NOW AVAILABLE VIA LIBRETEXTS (Many subjects are covered: from Mathematics to Medicine to GeoSciences to Social Sciences to Business to Chemistry to Engineering. More subjects will be covered in future editions.)

 

 

  

COLBY COLLEGE updates many of their Spanish Language resources, including Spanish Grammar and Reading

 

 

 

More free Spanish resources from the California Community College Consortium for OER Resources:

https://www.oercommons.org/curated-collections/1465?__hub_id=68

 

 

 

And, finally, another truly excellent Search engine to retrieve free academic texts in most disciplines, but most especially foreign language texts and resources (grammar exercises, vocabulary, listening lessons, etc.) is: 

 https://www.oercommons.org/  (OER COMMONS)   OER = OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

 

 

 

 

WHAT DID ANCIENT LANGUAGES SOUND LIKE?   

(THIS IS NOW POSSIBLE THROUGH THE POWER OF AI)

You can hear Maya, Ancient Latin, Ancient Greek, Middle English, Celtic, Middle Eastern, and a number of Asian languages.

AI will just get better and more powerful-- I expect another iteration of this website in 5 years.)

 

 

 

 

INTERESTING VIDEO FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS:

Why You Have an Accent in a Foreign Language.

Economist | Staff. 

Differences in syllable stress, pronunciation, and rhythm make even fluent foreign language speakers talk with an accent. (Watch)

 

 

 

 

 

SPECIFIC LANGUAGES BELOW: 

 

 

ARABIC

 

Free Scholarly Studies on Middle Eastern Studies, including extensive scholarship on Arabic and other languages spoken in the Middle East, are available via this link. 

 

 

 

 

AZTEC -- please see NAHUATL

 

 

 

 

 

CENTRAL ASIAN LANGUAGES -- please see UZBEK

(please also see this website from Indiana University, Bloomington)

 

 

 

 

CHEROKEE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

 

 

 

 

 

CHINESE

 

East Asian Languages and Societies:

Sub-disciplines (1)

Works (3)

Authors (4)

 

 

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES  from KSU

 

 




CREE LANGUAGE (ONE OF THE MANY AMERINDIAN LANGUAGES)

Cree: Language of the Plains / nēhiyawēwin: paskwāwi-pīkiskwēwin

Author(s): Jean L. Okimāsis, University of Regina

Description: Cree: "Language of the Plains is a comprehensive educational resource, offering a broad range of learning materials that is easily accessible to Cree language learners. This collection includes an updated and redesigned Cree language textbook, Cree language audio labs, and a Cree language workbook."

Cree Language of the Plains PDF.pdf

Print PDF

 

 

 

 

 

 

ESL: TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

 

BEST FREE ESL SITES ON THE INTERNET  - UPDATED FOR 2024

ESL SITES ON THE INTERNET 2024docx

(Designed for Teachers of ESL/EFL -- with love from Stephen, once an ESL Teacher myself.)

 

 

 

 

 

FRENCH

 

 

 

 

 

 

GERMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

GREEK CLASSICAL GREEK

 

 

see LATIN below for GREEK AND LATIN ROOTS I-- LATIN

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAITIAN CREOLE

 

 

 

 

 

 

HEBREW

 

 

 

 

 

 

HINDI

 

 

 

 

 

 

ITALIAN

 

One of the best Italian Songs to get in the spirit of learning Italian -- click here and listen! You'll be ready to buy your Tkt to Italy! 

(Song by Toto Cutugno, "L'Italiano") 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JAPANESE

 

 

 

 

 

 

KISWAHILI  please see SWAHILI

 

 

 

 

 

KHMER

 

 

 

 

KOREAN

 

 

 

 

 

LATIN

 

 

 

 

 

MALAYALAM

 

 

 

 

 

MAYA (SPOKEN YUCATEC MAYA) 

a project from the University of Chicago

 

 

 

 

MODERN LANGUAGES

Works (8)

Authors (9)

 

 

 

 

 

 

NAHUATL (AZTEC)

Nahuatlahtolli

WEB: https://tlahtolli.coerll.utexas.edu/

A Beginner to an Advanced Level Nahuatl Online Course from the University of Texas, Austin

 

 

 

 

 

OLD ENGLISH: HOW OLD ENGLISH TRANSITIONED TO MODERN ENGLISH

(includes FREE COURSES on the GRAMMAR and LINGUISTICS OF OLD ENGLISH)

 

 

 

 

PERSIAN 

 

 

 

 

 

POLISH 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PORTUGUESE 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUNJABI

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROMANIAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RUSSIAN

 

 

 

 

 

SHONA (SHONA is an African Bantu Language spoken primarily in Zimbabwe.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPANISH  (PRECISELY TAILORED FOR FSI STUDENTS and TEACHERS of SPANISH)

 

NOTE: THIS SECTION INCLUDES A READING IN SPANISH ON JUNETEENTH and materials/resources for Consular Adjudicators.

 

 

 

 

 

 

*SWAHILI

 

 

 

 

 

TAJIK

 

 

 

 

 

TURKISH

 

 

 

 

 

UKRAINIAN

 

 

 

 

 

URDU

 

 

 

 

 

UZBEK

 

 

 

 

 

VIETNAMESE

 

 

 

 

WELSH

 

 

 

 

YORUBA

 

 

 

 

 

MANY MORE LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS AND RESOURCES MAY BE FOUND IN THIS .pdf DOCUMENT I COMPILED FOR ALL LANGUAGE LEARNERS:

 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FREE RESOURCES.pdf

 

 

 

 

NOTE: The Open Textbook Library is updated with new textbooks each and every month on all subjects;

please routinely search this site for new free language textbooks and related materials:

German Language

Chinese Language

Japanese Language

Spanish Language

Turkish Language

etc.

 

Subject listing for the OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY

 

 

 

 

MERLOT.ORG is another extremely useful academic site for searching Foreign Language textbooks and Foreign Language resources.  

(NOTE: YOU DO NOT NEED TO LOG IN TO SEARCH THIS SITE)

 

 

 

I am committed to updating this site as I learn of new free and quality Foreign Language resources.     

Obrigado/Thank you all

 

 

 

  • A listing of *all-known* free, Open Access Databases, free Textbook sites, and New Search Engines: Please find that listing here. 

 

  •   * IMPORTANT CAVEAT*:  *All-known refers to those Open Access Resources/ Databases that I am personally aware of. These include resources shared with me by colleagues all over the world. I do update this site every month with new OA resources.

 

  

  • A three-page Handout of the more important Open Access Resources and Databases for distribution to students and participants in Workshops may be found here 

 

 

        

   

 

 

    . A new Search Engine for locating free TEXTBOOKS in all subject areas, including languages:  https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Academic resources for International Fulbrighters AND International Scholars and International Teachers may be found here

 

 

 

 

  • Free Academic Resources for all Scholars and Students, everywhere:  

        FREE ACADEMIC RESOURCES: A PLANNING and TEACHING GUIDE 

 

 

 

 

   . NEW RESOURCE: MERLOT'S ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE COMMUNITY PORTALS.     

 

(CONSULT ESPECIALLY MERLOT's ACADEMIC PORTAL FOR WORLD LANGUAGES, for a listing of new academic textbooks and resources, professional Organizations, Journals and Publications in the fields of world languages, world languages on the Web, and new materials and teaching resources.)

 

Students/Professors/Teachers of World Languages should consult this incredibly helpful site often, as it is updated frequently.

 

 

 

 

.    Library of Congress Research Guides: divided into over 25 topical areas

This is part of the TOOLS FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS.

 

As an example: this guide might be useful for students in MS or HS:

 

 

 

 

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE TO RESEARCH ON THEIR OWN: 

 

 

Library of Congress Research Guides: divided into over 25 topical areas

 

 

The Congressional Research Service --- the best Librarians from the U.S Library of Congress research the very latest topics of concern for members of the U.S. Congress -- includes Science and Technology, Finance, Climate Change; and thousands of other topics in many fields-- a resource that few know about, but those who know use it all the time! 

Most especially useful for POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC OFFICERS  (POL/ECON) AT THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT

 

 

NEW SEARCH ENGINES NOW COMPETING WITH GOOGLE:

 

 

 

DOAJ: DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

Indexes close to 10 million academic articles in over 20,000 journals in all fields. When searching, make sure to click the Article radio button, rather than the Journal button.

For the most relevant results, limit the search to the Title or Keyword fields. 

 

 

 

GRAFT 

 

 

and INTERNET ARCHIVE SCHOLAR 

 

 

and a new Customized Search Engine 

 

 

THINK TANK SEARCH ENGINE FROM THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

 

 

and

https://escholarship.org/

(escholarship.org = Open Access Publications from the University of California; over 460,000 items available in all areas of scholarship; new items are added every week.)

 

 

and an OER SEARCH ENGINE

(OER = OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES)

 

 

 

🛜 A LIST OF SELECT DISSERTATION SEARCH ENGINES CURATED for 2024 with new and exciting additions:

 DISSERTATIONS AND THESES (HOW TO FIND THE COMPLETE, FULL TEXT OF MANY RECENT DISSERTATIONS) 

 

 

A customized Search Engine for locating free Textbooks: 

 https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT 

 

 

And, finally the very best free Databases and new Search Engines - found here

 

 

 

MY GRATITUDE:

 

 I AM MOST ESPECIALLY GRATEFUL TO THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS in LAWRENCE; KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY; the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at AUSTIN; INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON; the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA; as well as the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND -- for GRACIOUSLY SHARING MANY OF THE FREE FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCES and TEXTS FEATURED IN THIS WEB SITE.

 

THANK YOU! 

 

 

 

This Website by Stephen Perry; updated on a regular basis.

 

Note the Peace Corps language website at the very top of this page.

 

 

 

 

HINT: to locate additional Foreign Language resources, please include the Research Resources listed above as well as MERLOT and OER COMMONS in your search strategies.  

 

 

 

YET ANOTHER IMPORTANT HINT FOR LINGUISTS AND LINGUISTIC RESEARCH

Linguistic analysis of languages, whether focusing on a specific language, or language families, can be located using two new powerful Academic Search Engines:


https://goo.gl/fA1re  and  https://bit.ly/GRAFTSE 

(either of these new Search Engines will also retrieve academic articles, including free access to many dissertations or theses.)

 

 

Here are four examples from the above Search Engines:

 

1) The genomic prehistory of peoples speaking Khoisan languages ...

PubMed Central (PMC) › pmc › articles › PMC8117426 

Oct 19, 2020 ... Peoples speaking so-called Khoisan languages—that is, indigenous languages of southern Africa that do not belong to the Bantu family—are ...

 

2) Q&A: What is human language, when did it evolve and why should ...

PubMed Central (PMC) › pmc › articles › PMC5525259 

Jul 24, 2017 ... Ancient DNA reveals us to be over 99% identical in the sequences of our protein coding genes to our sister species the Neanderthals (Homo ...

 

3) "A preliminary description of the syntax and morphology of interrogatives in the Shona language." https://repository.unam.edu.na/handle/11070/2008

 

AND:

 

4) "Standardisation a Considerable Force behind Language Death: A Case of Shona: 

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234638583.pdf

 

 

 

 

WHY IS THE FUTURE SO FASCINATING?

(Ideas for Classroom Discussion, along with readings to encourage classroom participation and personal reflection; also includes four (4) guided research projects to help students write a research paper AND Lesson Plans for busy Teachers.

 

(Teachers can modify the questions, and any of the assignments, in order to better fit their classes.)

 

This site was designed for ESL Students at the Intermediate to Advanced levels, especially those International students who desire to better prepare for University coursework and University life in the U.S.)

 

 

 

👁️ For those interested in how AI (Artificial Intelligence) is being used in Education --and related fields --  this link might be of interest. 

 

The above website includes information such as:

 

Writing a Resume using Generative AI

 

Creating Lexile Appropriate Primary Texts for Instruction using Generative AI 

 

 

 

 

AND, finally, for those who love to travel, there's this

 

 

 

 

Stephen wishes all of you happiness and success in both your personal and professional lives. 

 

 

THIS Website by Stephen:

 

Stephen is a former Instructor at the Spring International Language Center (SILC) at the U of Arkansas, Fayetteville, working with ESL/EFL Students and Teachers. 

 

Stephen is a Professional Librarian, with an M.L.S. from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington, with many years of experience in academic and international libraries, including numerous Public Diplomacy assignments with the U.S. State Department. 

 

In many of his overseas assignments, he worked with POL/ECON/PD Officers in order to sharpen their research skills.

 

Stephen now works and lives in Mexico.

 

 

A RELATED WEBSITE: https://bit.ly/SILCQK1 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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