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Brazilpod

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Brazilpod joins supplementary Portuguese websites at the University of Texas, including Tá Falado, Portuguese Communication Exercises, Conversa Brasileira, as well as links to other Portuguese language resources, Portuguese podcasts and blogs.

Author
Orlando Kelm

Chqeta'maj le qach’ab’al K’iche’!

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Chqe’tamaj le qach’ab’al K’iche’! seeks to develop a beginner to advanced level online course for K’iche’, a Mayan language of Guatemala.

Author
Sergio Romero, Ignacio Carvajal, Mareike Sattler, Juan Manuel Tahay Tzaj

Deutsch im Blick

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A multimedia 1st-year German language program based on videos of native speakers and the University of Texas Summer Program in Würzburg, Germany. The online textbook includes recorded vocabulary, phonetics lessons, an online grammar component, online comparative polls and internet writing activities.

Author
Zsuzsanna Abrams

Español Abierto

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Français interactif

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Français interactif is a unique, award-winning 1st-year French curriculum used by learners all over the world. Students explore French language and culture by following the lives of real students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. The online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, internet activities, and a textbook of classroom exercises.

Author
Carl Blyth, Karen Kelton, Nancy Guilloteau

Gateway to Chinese

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A collection of free interactive language learning resources for beginning Mandarin Chinese. Students now have the option to practice pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, listening, and reading skills at their own convenience.

Author
Wen-Hua Teng

Heritage Spanish

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Despite their growing popularity, Heritage Spanish programs remain underserved by commercial textbook publishers. What that means for us who teach heritage learners is that we are left either to adapt the few published materials that do exist to fit our programs or else to create our own. This community is intended to become a place where you can find and share resources easily. Share your resources (syllabi, activities, lessons, etc.), or information about events with this growing community.

Author
Flavia Belpoliti, José Esteban Hernández, Yanina Hernández, Oscar Joya Espinosa, Jocelly Meiners (Eds.)

Le Littéraire dans le quotidien

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“The literary in the every day,” is a textbook for a transdisiplinary approach to reading/writing at the first and second year levels of college French. The files that make up the textbook serve as foreign language templates in the form of an OER to bridge the well known divide between lower level language courses and upper level literature “content” courses. Language teachers, with the help of these templates, can develop their own reading and writing activities to highlight the metaphorical nature of language.

Author
Joanna Gay Luks

Língua da Gente

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In Brazil, the term língua da gente (literally ‘language of the people’) refers to the way that people actually talk in everyday speech. And that, in essence, is the object behind this series. We hope to provide practical lessons that demonstrate how people really speak, and we do this by presenting brief, slice-of-life dialogs, which focus on some daily situation, scenario, or task that we encounter every day.

Author
Orlando Kelm

Nahuatlahtolli

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Nahuatlahtolli, a self-paced online multimedia course, is based on the Nahuatl variant from the Huasteca of Veracruz that is spoken in Chicontepec, Veracruz, Mexico. The principal aim of this course is to develop the student’s oral, written, and comprehension abilities, primarily through the study of grammar, listening, and reading. The intended audience for this pedagogical resource is foreign students interested in developing their language skills, as well as native teachers in bilingual schools in the Chicontepec region.

Author
Sabina de la Cruz, Catalina de la Cruz, Josefrayn Sánchez-Perry, Kelly McDonough, Sergio Romero

Reality Czech

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Reality Czech includes vocabulary lists, cultural units, grammar explanations, interactive self correcting exercises, audio recordings and listening tasks, video interviews with native speakers and students of Czech, video interviews with native speakers of Czech, Czech cultural videos. 

Author
Christian Hilchey

Spanish Grammar in Context

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Spanish Grammar in Context is a unique website that provides detailed grammar explanations and examples of the Spanish language with accompanying practice questions. Unlike traditional reference grammars, each topic is explained using authentic video examples. These examples come from the Spanish in Texas project, which profiles Spanish as it is spoken throughout Texas today. Online practice quizzes are included for each grammar section.

Author
Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Spanish in Texas

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The purpose of this site is to let Spanish-speaking Texans speak for themselves so that we can learn from them about the ways that they use their language. You will find links to videos of Spanish speakers from Texas with comments about the language you’ll hear and why it takes the form that it does. You will see links to the “Linguistic Landscape” of Texas with images of signs that reflect the unique nature of a bilingual Texas.

Author
Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

SpinTX Video Archive

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The SpinTX video archive provides a convenient web interface to search hundreds of short video clips from the Spanish in Texas Corpus. The collection includes hundreds of video clips culled from interviews of native and heritage speakers of Spanish living in Texas. Each video is accompanied by synchronized closed captions and a transcript that has been annotated with thematic, grammatical, functional and metalinguistic information. All materials available on the site can be freely used, copied, and distributed under a Creative Commons license.

Author
Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Yorùbá Yé Mi

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Yorùbá Yé Mi is an interactive, communicative, introductory, multimedia program intended to provide college/university students with basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of language learning in Yorùbá. It exposes the learner not only to Yorùbá language in meaningful situations but also to the culture of the Yorùbá-speaking people of South-western Nigeria. It contains effective techniques for teaching and learning Yorùbá including tones, and is user-friendly in its approach.

Author
Fehintola Mosadomi Ph.D.

Actividades de práctica con aprendices del español

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Actividades de práctica con aprendices del español is an online corpus of videos of second language and heritage language learners of Spanish during oral interviews and provides supplemental activities to help viewers investigate learners’ language and proficiency levels.

Author
Dale Koike

Aswaat Arabiyya

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Aswaat Arabiyya "Arabic Voices," is a web site designed for learners and teachers of Arabic seeking materials for listening comprehension. Aswaat Arabiyya provides listening materials and accompanying activities that are intended for the various levels of proficiency from Novice to Superior. These listening materials have been selected from television stations throughout the Arab world and they treat a wide variety of topics and listening genres.

Author
Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal (Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Flagship Director)

Chansons françaises

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Chansons françaises is the integrated music component of Français interactif. Chansons features a French or Francophone song, related to each chapter's cultural or pedagogical focus, presented via audio or video. Accompanying pdfs provide additional information, as well as comprehension exercises. Songs act as a portal to various Francophone cultures and musical genres. Aural comprehension and study of lyrics afford students practice with culturally authentic text and expression. Students discover yet another reason to be passionate about studying French!

Author
Kelle Keating, Karen Kelton

Chinese Dialogues Podcast

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This podcast series consists of simple dialogue exchanges. The listening materials are suitable for beginners and help them take the first step toward becoming proficient listeners. The contents of these 72 dialogues are completely based on the beginning level Chinese curriculum; they are creative yet realistic scenarios on topics that listeners can relate to, such as the social, family and school aspects of one’s life. Full transcripts transcripts in both traditional and simplified characters as well as English translations are provided as downloadable PDF documents.

Author
Wen-Hua Teng

Chinese Flashcards

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Practice vocabulary on the go! The original idea conceived by a fellow Chinese language student, this flashcard exercise is an engaging and effective way to review vocabulary terms from the convenience of your mobile device.

Author
Wen-Hua Teng

Chinese Grammar Lesson Videos

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A collection of video lessons on grammar topics for beginning Mandarin Chinese, available as a YouTube playlist.

Author
Wen-Hua Teng

Chinese Take-In

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Chinese Take-In provides an interactive environment where first-year Chinese learners can practice listening outside the classroom according to individual needs and paces while receiving immediate feedback.

Author
Wen-Hua Teng

Chinese Word Order Exercises

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Created by student request, this set of basic word-order exercises will help beginners practice the foundational skills of how to use the language in the right order.

Author
Wen-Hua Teng

ClicaBrasil

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The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They are designed for intermediate to advanced students, but are accessible to everyone. Each lesson includes videos of Brazilians from all walks of life speaking naturally about their lives and their country. All lessons integrate reading, writing, listening and comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication and cultural activities with the videos. There is also an accompanying textbook. É isso aí! Agora é só clicar... e começar a se divertir! Boa viagem!

Author
Vivian Flanzer

Conversa Brasileira

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A compilation of video scenarios of people interacting with each other in Portuguese. Conversations include dialogs, questions, turn taking exchanges, clarifications, false starts, hugs, laughter, asides. The scenarios are enhanced by transcriptions, translations, content analysis, and notes and discussion blogs.

Author
Orlando Kelm

Enhancing French Skills

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Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French. It includes authentic language videos from French websites, as well as interviews of French speakers on cultural topics. Videos and activities are organized into five broad themes and tagged by communicative language function with links into Tex’s French Grammar for specific grammar explanations and interactive exercises. Each theme includes a pdf of suggested classroom activities and homework.

Author
Nancy Guilloteau, Karen Kelton

German Frame-semantic Online Lexicon (G-FOL)

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The German Frame-semantic Online Lexicon (G-FOL) is a prototype of a new kind of pedagogical dictionary. The goal is to help students learn how words are used in modern-day German. This online resource is different from traditional dictionaries and textbooks because it is based on the German FrameNet at the University of Texas at Austin, a digital archive of how German words are used in real life contexts. As such, students can easily access up-to-date information about the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic contexts in which a German word appears.

Author
Hans Boas

Grimm Grammar

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An online German grammar reference, featuring zany post-modern Grimm’s fairy tale characters, authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises, online audio and cartoon images.

Author
Zsuzsanna Abrams

Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar

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Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar was developed for intermediate level Turkish language courses at the University of Texas at Austin. Intermediate learners and their instructors may use it for different purposes: self-study, classroom instruction, tutoring, or as a pastime. The lessons in Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar integrate reading, listening and viewing comprehension, writing and speaking practice, grammar, vocabulary, and cultural activities.

Author
Jeannette Okur

Hindi in America Collection

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The Hindi in America Collection includes fully transcribed videos of interviews with Hindi-speakers. The aim of the project is to provide learners with unscripted examples of the contemporary colloquial language.

Hindi Language Resources

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Author
Jishnu Shankar

Introduction to Oral Proficiency Levels (Spanish)

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Introduction to Oral Proficiency Levels is a free open educational resource that can help Spanish teachers gain a foundational understanding of how to evaluate Spanish speakers. The resource includes 17 video-based practice modules designed to strengthen your understanding of the ACTFL Speaking Proficiency Guidelines and to help you evaluate the speaking levels of your language students.

Author
Judith E. Liskin-Gasparro

Les Conversations Mises à Jour

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Les Conversations Mises à Jour is a collection of authentic conversations in French that targets mostly intermediate and advanced learners of French. Each conversation highlights the shared experience of two native or near-native French speakers and provides both an oral history of that experience and a trove of cultural references.

Author
Beatriz E. Schleppe & Melissa E. Skidmore

Malayalam Language Resources

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Author
Darsana Manayathu Sasi

Pitch Perfect Pinyin

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Pitch Perfect Pinyin is a two-part interactive website for learning Pinyin pronunciation.

Author
Dr. Wen-Hua Teng (Asian Studies)

Portuguese Communication Exercises

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A compilation of nearly 350 brief video clips, together with a complete Portuguese transcription and English translation of native speakers of Portuguese from various locations throughout Brazil (and some Portugal) who talk about 80 different topics.

Author
Orlando Kelm

Radio Arlecchino

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Selection of aural Italian grammar lessons (podcasts). Grammar examples and dialogs are built upon the escapades of Arlecchino, Pulcinella, and other masks of the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Lessons feature topical grammar discussions, dramatic readings, pdf grammar notes ... and general audio zaniness.

Author
Antonella Olson, Eric Edwards

Recorridos por la literatura hispana

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COERLL has partnered with Rose Potter and Betsy Arnold to publish Recorridos-Don Quijote, a pair of openly-licensed books for the study of Cervantes’ Don Quijote in upper level Spanish courses, including AP. The student workbook, accessible online for free, deepens students’ understanding of the text through reading, pre-reading, and post-reading activities and glosses. The companion teacher support facilitates the teaching of Don Quijote through student-centered strategies and activities, historical and cultural information, quizzes, exams and more.

Author
Rose Potter and Betsy Arnold

Rockin Russian

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Rockin Russian is designed to give students exposure to the Russian language and culture through the medium of Russian music videos. Students are able to perfect their grammar while rocking out to music videos from Russia's pop stars. Based on Russian music videos from MTV Russia, Rockin' Russian is supplemented with exercise materials focusing on pronunciation, vocabulary development, grammar and cultural features. Parts of the videos are embedded into exercises in each category that students can revisit, strengthening their language skills.

Author
Thomas Garza, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature

Sanskrit Language Resources

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Author
Donald R. Davis Jr., Amy Hyne-Sutherland

Spanish in Texas Corpus

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This website provides access to a corpus of Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English speech samples culled from interviews and conversations among speakers of diverse personal profiles and regional origins throughout Texas. The Spanish in Texas Corpus currently consists of over 500,000 words from 97 bilingual speakers living in Texas. Video files, audio files, full transcripts, and POS annotations are available for download. Researchers and educators will be given free access to the corpus. Access requires agreeing to abide by the site’s Code of Ethics and registering for an account.

Author
Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Spanish Proficiency Exercises

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A compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks.

Author
Orlando Kelm

Spanish Proficiency Training Website and Learner Corpus

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The purpose of these materials is to help future public school teachers of Spanish in their assessment of learners’ levels of proficiency. These materials not only present videos of learners interacting with an interlocutor, but also direct the viewer to notice features about the learners’ language and proficiency levels. The website also presents information on proficiency levels to help the viewer develop a greater awareness of differences in learner language.

Author
Dale Koike

Tá Falado

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Tá Falado includes 46 podcast lessons on the pronunciation and grammar of Portuguese, specifically designed to help those who already speak Spanish. The lessons are built around Portuguese dialogs that are repeated in Spanish, providing a direct comparison of the two languages. All lessons include downloadable PDF files with the transcripts and notes, mp3 audio files, and blog discussions. Additionally all of the dialogs present cultural scenarios that illustrate differences between North American and Brazilian culture.

Author
Orlando Kelm

Tamil Language Resources

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Author
Sankaran Radhakrishnan

Tex's French Grammar

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An online pedagogical reference grammar of the French language that combines authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises and online audio with surreal dialogues and cartoon images.

Author
Carl Blyth, Karen Kelton et al

Trayectos

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Trayectos is an open curriculum for beginning second language learners of Spanish. This is a beta version, part of a two-volume program that is still being developed by Dr. Gabriela C. Zapata and a team of graduate and undergraduate students at Texas A&M university, with the support of COERLL. Trayectos features a learner-centered, multimodal approach grounded in the Multiliteracies pedagogy Learning by Design(Kalantzis et al., 2005; 2016).

Author
Gabriela Zapata, Alessandra Ribota, et al

Urdu Language Resources

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Author
Shahnaz Hassan

¡Listos!

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¡Listos! is a series of units for Heritage Spanish learners in grades 6-12. Three lessons aligned to the K12 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) form four thematic clusters.  Relevant scenarios related to personal life, college tasks, career readiness and civic participation frame each lesson and increase student engagement by making learning authentic and relevant to real issues that students face.

Author
Meredith Clark and José Sologuren

Other Materials from the University of Texas

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19th Century France: A Visual Resource

This interdisciplinary web site presents an overview of nineteenth-century French visual culture in relation to history, literature and social changes.

Author
Alex Wettlaufer

Bangla (Bengali) Language Resources

Author
Ahmed Shamim

Biblical Hebrew Grammar for Beginners

Biblical Hebrew Grammar for Beginners is an introduction to the basic grammar of Biblical Hebrew. Our approach is descriptive in that we highlight phenomena that a learner who accesses the Hebrew Bible may observe. We expect engagement at the novice level, and therefore focus on identifying, listing, and grouping as the tasks we expect the learner to be able to complete. We also expect the learner to recognize a small number of words and phrases with their meanings.

Author
Esther Raizen, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Brazilians Working with Americans

The "Brazilians Working with Americans: Cultural Case Studies" consists of 10 brief case studies that illustrate some of the challenges that executives face when working together. The 10 cases are based on real stories from Brazilian executives who work with North Americans in Brazil.

Author
Orlando Kelm

Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals

Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals is a compilation of brief video clips in which Chinese-speaking professionals discuss cultural issues that are of interest to North Americans. The objective of the interviews is three-fold: First, provide practical cultural information about business topics. The opinions represent those of real people. At times they are even contradictory, but they are designed to be a catalyst for discussion, not a definitive answer about some stereotype. Second, the interviews provide vocabulary in areas within a professional setting.

Author
Orlando Kelm, Haidan Wang, Jeanette Chen

Cultural Interviews with German-Speaking Professionals

Cultural Interviews with German-Speaking Executives is a compilation of brief video clips in which German executives discuss cultural issues that are of interest to North Americans. The objective of the interviews is three-fold: First, provide practical cultural information about business topics. Second, the interviews provide vocabulary in areas within a professional setting. Third, these materials provide non-native speakers of German with multiple examples of natural speech.

Author
Orlando Kelm, Marc Rathmann, Kerstin Somerholter

Cultural Interviews with Japanese-Speaking Professionals

Cultural Interviews with Japanese-Speaking Executives is a compilation of brief video clips in which Japanese and Japanese-speaking executives discuss cultural issues that are of interest to North Americans. The objective of the interviews is three-fold: First, provide practical cultural information about business topics. The opinions represent those of real people. At times they are even contradictory, but they are designed to be a catalyst for discussion, not a definitive answer about some stereotype. Second, the interviews provide vocabulary in areas within a professional setting.

Author
Orlando Kelm, Midori Tanaka

Cultural Interviews with Latin American and Spanish Executives

Cultural Interviews with Latin American Executives is a compilation of over 200 brief video clips in which Latin American and Spanish executives discuss cultural issues that are of interest to North Americans. Over 50 native Spanish speaking professionals offer their opinion on these questions. The objective of the interviews is three-fold: First, provide practical cultural information. The opinions represent those of real people. At times they are even contradictory, but they are designed to be a catalyst for discussion, not to provide a definitive answer about some stereotype.

Author
Orlando Kelm

Cultural Interviews with Turkish-Speaking Professionals

Cultural Interviews with Turkish-Speaking Executives is a compilation of brief video clips in which Turkish executives discuss cultural issues that are of interest to North Americans. The objective of the interviews is three-fold: First, provide practical cultural information about business topics. Second, the interviews provide vocabulary in areas within a professional setting. Third, these materials provide non-native speakers of Turkish with multiple examples of natural speech.

Author
Orlando Kelm

Danteworlds

An integrated multimedia journey, combining images, textual commentary, & audio recordings--through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy. Danteworlds is conceived as a complement to--not replacement of--the experience of reading and discussing Dante's Divine Comedy.

Author
Guy Raffa

Getting to know Japanese Language & Culture

This series of videos is designed for people with zero-background knowledge of Japanese language.  

Author
Junko Hatanaka, Yuko Kato, Nobuko Koyama

Hebrew Language at the University of Texas at Austin

An overview of Hebrew resources at UT-Austin including tools developed for the Modern Hebrew Project.

Author
Hebrew Program University of Texas at Austin

International Studies Lesson Plans

Language teachers in training wrote these lesson plans to connect language learning to social studies topics such as the weather, stereoypes, healthy and unhealthy foods, music, and café culture. 

Author
Lameese Ahmad, Katy Cooper, Benjamin Fisher, Niki García-Holmes

Introducing German

A web site of the German Outreach Program offering an eight-lesson German course to elementary and middle schools of the Austin Independent School District.

Author
Kit Belgum

ITAL

The ITAL project is a storytelling laboratory, where trained storytellers have crafted hundreds of Texan Italian stories in many different forms, from blogs, documentaries, educational videos, to entire feature films. The goal of this laboratory is to inspire YOU to tell your story; to take control of your language learning experience through telling and sharing stories with others.  

Author
Tiburon Transmedia

JOSHU, a site for learning the Japanese language

JOSHU (Japanese Online Self-Help Utility) means "assistant", or "tutor" in Japanese, which is what this website attempts to be to anyone interested in learning the Japanese language. JOSHU is supported by the Japanese Language Program, UT-Austin.

Author
Nan Puthaaroon, Naoko Suito

Kansai-ben

The Japanese taught as a foreign language is what we call “Standard Japanese.” Descriptively speaking, the Standard Japanese is the variety used in the Tokyo area. However, the people in Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, and their surrounding districts daily speak “Kansai dialect”. If you live in or visit the Kansai area and want to belong to the Kansai people, you should try to greet them in their own language!

Author
Ikue Shingu, Junko Hatanaka

L'Avis Des Artistes

L'Avis Des Artistes was developed to help intermediate and advanced students improve their oral comprehension skills. A sequence of audio and video selections provides the basis for comprehension exercises of increasing difficulty. For immediate reinforcement, answers sets for each exercise may be viewed by clicking a button. The first few exercises require no more than recognition of key words. As the exercises increase in complexity, they require more extended and subtle listening skills, paraphrasing and summarizing of information presented in the source documents.

Author
Dr. Cheney Crow

Life With Turkish

Life With Turkish is a website that supplements the Turkish language program at the University of Texas at Austin. It is sponsored by the Department of Middle Eastern Studies with support from Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services.

Author
Hayriye Kayi

Lyre entre les lignes

Interactive examinations of French poetry from the Renaissance with audio files and commentary.

Author
Marc Bizer

Malayalam Audio Download

A downloadable series of audio recordings for Rodney F. Moag's textbook, Malayalam: A University Course and Reference Grammar.

Author
Rodney Moag

Materials from the Hindi-Urdu Flagship

The Hindi Urdu Flagship is an undergraduate program at the University of Texas at Austin designed for students who wish to achieve advanced professional proficiency in Hindi and Urdu while majoring in a wide variety of programs. Faculty have produced a wide range of materials as part of the program, which are available through UT Austin's Texas Scholarworks. 

Author
Hindi-Urdu faculty at the University of Texas at Austin

Materials from the Hindi-Urdu Flagship

The Hindi Urdu Flagship is an undergraduate program at the University of Texas at Austin designed for students who wish to achieve advanced professional proficiency in Hindi and Urdu while majoring in a wide variety of programs. Faculty have produced a wide range of materials as part of the program, which are available through UT Austin's Texas Scholarworks. 

Author
Hindi-Urdu faculty at the University of Texas at Austin

Onda Latina Collection

The Onda Latina Collection consists of 226 digitally preserved audio programs including interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns from the radio series "The Mexican American Experience" and "A esta hora conversamos" the Longhorn Radio Network, 1976-1982.

Author
John Mckiernan-Gonzalez

Passe Partout

A sequence of audio and video selections to help intermediate and advanced students improve their oral comprehension skills. It provides the basis for comprehension exercises of increasing difficulty. The topics are extremely varied: the creation of Lalique crystal; winemaking, Van Gogh's genius; the production of sound effects for cinema; Sartre discussing Huis Clos in 1946; cinematographers Pialat and Karmitz describing their work; the history of the Louvre; Alphonse Daudet in a 1927 recording of his famous Provençal story, La Chèvre de Monsieur Seguin.

Author
Cheney Crow

Persian Catch Up@the Café

PERSIAN Catch Up@the Café is designed to help a student practice Persian language reading and listening comprehension. It’s intended for English speaking intermediate Persian learners to brush up on their language skills before moving on to an advanced course: i.e., some existing Persian is required. It is an Open Educational Resource from the ROTC Language Culture Project and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Texas.

Author
Anousha Shahsavari, ROTC Language Culture Project

Persian of Iran Today

Persian Teaching Resources include sixteen units with audio files and videos to learn to pronounce and write Persian vocabulary.

Author
Anousha Shahsavar, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Persian Online

An online Persian grammar reference. Every topic draws cultural, historical, and linguistic references and includes audio and movie clips as well as a printable workbook with exercises.

Author
M. R. Ghanoonparvar

Phonology: Case Studies

The phonology of a language consists of the patterns of distribution of its speech categories. Phonological analysis is the process of determining what those patterns are, how they can be represented, and why they are the way they are. This site provides a series of case studies for students learning how to do phonological analysis. The case studies go step-by-step through phonological analyses in three languages - Kinyarwanda, Turkish, and Catalan - with soundfiles and references.

Author
Scott Myers, Megan Crowhurst

Spanish Civilization

A website which presents Spanish Civilization through art, architecture, maps and music.

Author
Inés Bergquist, Madeline Sutherland-Meier

Spanish Grammar Exercises

Exercises and drills for supplemental learning for Spanish students at the University of Texas at Austin.

Author
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Texas Czech Legacy Project

The Texas Czech Legacy Project documents the language, culture, and history of ethnic Czech Moravians in Texas. Project resources include the Texas Czech Dialect Archive (TCDA), a repository of audio-recordings gathered from ethnic Czech Moravians in Texas since the 1970s through the 2000s.

Author
Lida Cope

Texas German Dialect Project

The Texas German Dialect Project (TGDP) is an umbrella organization for carrying out research in representative Texas German speech communities in central Texas. One of the primary goals of the TGDP is to preserve the Texas German dialect as it reflects the rich cultural and linguistic traditions of its residents.
To this end, members of the TGDP conduct interviews with residents of representative Texas German speech communities. Portions of these interviews are digitized and subsequently stored for preservation in the Texas German Dialect Archive (TGDA).

Author
Hans Boas

Yours Truly בינינו

Yours Truly or בינינו is a set of supplementary materials for students at the novice and intermediate levels developed at The University of Texas at Austin by Esther Raizen. With two fictitious UT students, Ruth and Yoni, as the lead characters, the twenty units in the set present vignettes from the lives of contemporary students.

Author
Esther Raizen, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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