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Open Educational Resources

This guide will help faculty select and use open educational resources.

Open foreign language textbooks

Foreign language courses

Open University (UK) courses in languages
BBC languages
No longer updated, but still useful.
Memrise
Short courses on major European and Asian languages (including Vietnamese and Polish).
MIT courses on languages and linguistics
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center courses
Duolingo
One of the most popular language-learning sites.

Foreign language supplementary materials

Omniglot: the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages
Information on over 1000 languages and 260 writing systems, as well as language and language-learning basics.
Gallica
Digital collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Digital Dialects
Online games for learning languages.
Verbix verb conjugator

Foreign language teaching

Foreign language teaching methods