NOTE:

MORE FREE LANGUAGE RESOURCES MAY BE FOUND VIA COERLL: THE CENTER FOR OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING  and  OERTX, both offered through the University of Texas at Austin.

 

OERTX is yet another incredible, 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 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.)

 

 

 

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 IU Bloomington)

 

 

 

 

 

CHEROKEE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

 

 

 

 

 

CHINESE

 

East Asian Languages and Societies

Sub-disciplines (1)

Works (3)

Authors (4)

CREE LANGUAGE (ONE OF 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

 

 

 

 

 

FRENCH

 

 

 

 

 

GERMAN

 

 

 

 

 

GREEK CLASSICAL GREEK

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

HAITIAN CREOLE

 

 

 

 

 

HEBREW

 

 

 

 

 

HINDI

 

 

 

 

 

ITALIAN

 

 

 

 

 

JAPANESE

 

 

 

 

 

KOREAN

 

 

 

 

 

LATIN: GREEK AND LATIN ROOTS I -- LATIN

 

 

Greek and Latin Roots: Part I – Latin

 

 

GREEK AND LATIN ROOTS- PART I -- LATIN -- also freely available here via the OTL: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/greeklatinroots/ 

OTL = THE OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY

 

TODA-lly COMPREHENSIBLE LATIN

From the website: "A recovering grammar-translation Latin teacher's journey into Comprehensible Input and Instructional Technology."  The site includes a list of resources, thoughts and some short videos of various instructional technology tools and lessons learned from teaching Latin.  These "lessons learned" may be applicable to other languages and disciplines. The site is  frequently maintained.

 

 

 

 

MALAYALAM

 

 

 

 

 

MODERN LANGUAGES

Works (8)

Authors (9)

 

 

 

 

NAHUATL (AZTEC)

Nahuatlahtolli

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

A Beginner to 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)

 

 

 

 

 

PORTUGUESE 

 

 

 

 

 

PUNJABI

 

 

 

 

 

RUSSIAN

 

 

 

 

 

SPANISH

 

 

 

 

 

*SWAHILI

 

 

 

 

 

TURKISH

 

 

 

 

UZBEK

 

 

 

 

VIETNAMESE

 

 

 

 

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;

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

German Language

Chinese Language

Japanese Language

Spanish Language

Turkish Language

etc.

 

 

MERLOT.ORG is an extremely useful academic site to search for Foreign Language textbooks and Foreign Language resources.  

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

 

 

 

My profound thanks to friends - near and far --for asking me to locate free and openly available Foreign Language Textbooks and Resources.  May these resources help Language Instructors and Language students.

 

 

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

 

 

• Please feel free to use/share this training Handout in workshops, classes or teacher training sessions.

          (Thanks to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's Jonathan Langley for...)

 

 

 

• FREE TEXTBOOKS (A RESOURCE LIST) MAY BE FOUND AT THIS LINK -- this will be updated as I learn of more collections of Free Textbooks, including Academic texts.

 

 

• A new Search Engine for locating free textbooks: https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT

  (Created by an amazing 2022 Fulbright group hosted by SILC, at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
  

 

 

 

•  LIBGUIDES is an excellent discovery tool for new and emerging OA resources and research tools, such as this Libguide:   

• Research: How - Information Literacy Toolbox, courtesy of Florida International University.

 

 

 

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

 

 

• And, for African scholars and scientists: this website (FREE, SCHOLARLY RESOURCES for those researching the African continent)
  

 

 

 

 I AM MOST GRATEFUL TO THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS,  the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at AUSTIN,  INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, as well as the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND -- for GRACIOUSLY SHARING MANY OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCES FEATURED IN THIS WEB SITE.

 

THESE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, CREATED ON THEIR FOUR BEAUTIFUL CAMPUSES, ARE VERY USEFUL TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS.

 

 

 

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