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Bonjour! Buenos Dias! Guten Tag! Ni Hao! Marhaba! MERLOT welcomes all language educators and students of World Languages to access the many OER available in the ever-expanding World Languages Collection. This pioneer community contains thousands of OER, many of them peer-reviewed by distinguished scholars in the field. Please peruse our collection and correspond with us if you are interested in knowing more about the World Languages community peer review process. Contact Laura Franklin (lfranklin@nvcc.edu) for more information.
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World Language Assessment: Get in the Mode! supports and empowers world language educators to improve student proficiency through a variety of assessment strategies. Focusing on the three modes of communication (interpretive, presentational, and interpersonal), this resource provides a framework of formative, interim, and summative assessments for use at any grade level.
New Materials
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Free LexInvaders in Afrikaans - Play Online
Play free LexInvaders in Afrikaans online. Learn Afrikaans vocabulary, no signup. Works on every device.
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Free Hangman in Afrikaans - Play Online
Play free Hangman in Afrikaans online. Learn Afrikaans vocabulary, no signup. Works on every device.
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Free Frogger-Phrase in Afrikaans - Play Online
Play free Frogger-Phrase in Afrikaans online. Learn Afrikaans vocabulary, no signup. Works on every device.
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Free Flashcards in Afrikaans - Play Online
Play free Flashcards in Afrikaans online. Learn Afrikaans vocabulary, no signup. Works on every device.
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Free Crossword in Afrikaans - Play Online
Play free Crossword in Afrikaans online. Learn Afrikaans vocabulary, no signup. Works on every device.
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Free Language Courses for the World
aioPop is a completely free language-learning resource with story-based lessons, professional audio, free PDFs, and...
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Het Nederlands - Learn Dutch through immersion 🇳🇱
Het Nederlands is a free online Dutch dictionary built for language learners. Every entry begins with a clear definition...
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Danial in Tehran – Advanced Persian Interactive Story (Arabic Interface)
A five-scene interactive narrative for intermediate Arabic-speaking learners of Persian. Follows Reza, an Arab student of...
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Reza at the University – Intermediate Persian Interactive Story (Arabic Interface)
A five-scene interactive narrative for intermediate Arabic-speaking learners of Persian. Follows Reza, an Arab student of...
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Ali in the Bazaar – Beginner Persian Interactive Story (Arabic Interface)
A four-scene interactive narrative for Arabic-speaking beginners of Persian. Follows Ali, an Arabic-speaking visitor,...
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Atlas of Iranian Languages – Interactive Linguistic Map
An interactive SVG-based linguistic atlas presenting the geographic distribution of eleven Iranian languages (Persian,...
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Psycholinguistic Assessment Suite – Six Classic Experiments (Persian Interface)
A browser-based psycholinguistic assessment tool offering six classic experimental paradigms for Persian-speaking...
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Psycholinguistics Flashcards – Advanced Level (Persian Interface)
An advanced modular flip-card study tool for graduate-level linguistics students in Persian. Covers eight specialised...
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Psycholinguistics Flashcards – Intermediate Level (Persian Interface)
An intermediate-level modular flip-card study tool for Persian-speaking linguistics students. Expands on beginner content...
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Psycholinguistics Flashcards – Beginner Level (Persian Interface)
A modular flip-card study tool for Persian-speaking students of linguistics at the introductory level. Covers six...
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Persian Flashcards – Advanced Level (Arabic Interface)
Interactive 3D flip flashcards for Arabic-speaking learners of Persian at the advanced level. Contains 20 vocabulary...
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Persian Flashcards – Intermediate Level (Arabic Interface)
Interactive 3D flip flashcards for Arabic-speaking learners of Persian at the intermediate level. Contains 20 vocabulary...
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Persian Flashcards – Beginner Level (Arabic Interface)
Interactive 3D flip flashcards for Arabic-speaking learners of Persian at the beginner level. Contains 20 vocabulary...
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Así me expreso: Discovering Your Spanish Proficiency
Así me expreso: Discovering Your Spanish Proficiency is an intermediate-level Spanish Open Educational Resource (OER)...
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SPAN 115A - Basic Principles of Translation
These open textbooks are being utilized in a translation course for undergraduate students by Juan Berríos at California...
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Qan - La ville virtuelle pour écrire et lire - The virtual city for reading and writing
Vous vous promenez dans la ville virtuelle de Qan. Vous y laissez vos textes, courts ou longs en choisissant une rue qui...
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Semillas: Elementary Spanish II
Semillas: Elementary Spanish II is an intermediate Spanish open-access textbook with reading, listening, speaking, and...
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Estamos aquí! Comunidades bilingües e identidades regionales de los Estados Unidos
Estamos aquí! is an Open Educational Resource (OER) developed collaboratively by five Spanish as a Heritage Language...
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Giornate italiane - An Italian Textbook for Beginning and Intermediate Learners
Giornate Italiane is an open educational resource designed to support beginning and intermediate learners of Italian...
New Members
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Maria Jesus Funes LermaHunan Normal University -
Anne DelacroixÖkumenisches Domgymnasium Magdeburg
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Satomi HewittHoward Community/Technical College
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Maureen ThumUniversity of Michigan System - Flint
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BLANCA MERCK NAVARROUNIVERSIDAD DE HUELVA
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David HervasUniversity of Texas System - Arlington
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Karin LarsonUniversity of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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Tara GeraciPalomar College
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Nikita ArcherGeorgetown International Academy
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Keith CampbellPalomar College
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Matthew QuinnCalifornia State University, Sacramento
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Katrina NaiotiDept of Ed
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Instituto CervantesInstituto Cervantes / Spanish Ministry of Culture
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Jakir HussainFilmmaking
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Kimber HawkeyTalk of the Town Languages & Culture
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punithavalli kumaranUNITAR
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Adrien Meierovitchindependent learner
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Frank FinchCalifornia State University, Long Beach
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Ariana AnleuLong Beach Unified School District
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Heather NolenLynchburg City
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Penny WheelerUniversity of Technology, Sydney
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David CoyleSt. Francis Xavier University
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ELIANA BISTREANULiceul Tehnologic General Ioan Culcer
Materials by Discipline
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- ESL or EFL (682)
- French (535)
- German (188)
- Greek (41)
- Hebrew (64)
- Italian (65)
- Japanese (123)
- Korean (28)
- Latin (64)
- Less Commonly Taught Languages (256)
- Multilingual Resources (221)
- Persian (15)
- Portuguese (188)
- Russian (69)
- Spanish (557)
Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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Science needs you to defend it, German researchers told
Jul 07, 2026 11:58 AM PDT
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Higher Education in Kazakhstan and its Transitioning Economy - The Borgen Project
Jul 07, 2026 11:30 AM PDT
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Addressing the strategic crisis in Tibet: Five priorities for the Irish Presidency of the Council ...
Jul 07, 2026 10:59 AM PDT
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Mental Images of Global Warming in the Indian Mind
Jul 07, 2026 10:35 AM PDT
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Boards and Bots - American Council of Trustees and Alumni
Jul 07, 2026 09:04 AM PDT
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Cutting language courses will be a costly mistake | Humanities | The Guardian
Jul 07, 2026 08:40 AM PDT
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Italy launches €420m international mobility program for schools - The PIE News
Jul 07, 2026 07:56 AM PDT
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Trinity Alumna with Fulbright Grant Will Teach English in Slovak Republic
Jul 07, 2026 07:15 AM PDT
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McCracken County Public Library to host free ESL class - WPSD Local 6
Jul 07, 2026 07:11 AM PDT
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The Untapped Potential of Labour and Education Migration from Africa to Germany - BDI
Jul 07, 2026 05:43 AM PDT
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CBSE three-language policy boosts multilingualism, shrinks foreign language space
Jul 07, 2026 03:31 AM PDT
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Decline in Asian language learning in Australia | ABC NEWS - YouTube
Jul 07, 2026 01:17 AM PDT
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Call for Research Proposals on Rare and Endangered Crafts - fundsforNGOs
Jul 07, 2026 12:14 AM PDT
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Partnership to unearth First Nations languages from Australian Museum Archives
Jul 06, 2026 07:36 PM PDT
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NATIVE Pipeline Program Turns 10, Supports Student Success - Cal Poly Pomona
Jul 06, 2026 06:36 PM PDT
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Fluent language speakers and learners recognized in Yukon graduation ceremony | CBC.ca
Jul 06, 2026 05:58 PM PDT
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ACT public school language education plan found 'not fit for purpose' by parliamentary committee
Jul 06, 2026 04:38 PM PDT
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Youth in Chinese History | MCLC Resource Center - U.OSU
Jul 06, 2026 03:16 PM PDT
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Bringing signed languages into the study of regular sound change
Jul 06, 2026 02:59 PM PDT