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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.

World Language Assessment:Get in the Mode in MERLOT

New Materials

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...
Semillas: Elementary Spanish II
Semillas: Elementary Spanish II is an intermediate Spanish open-access textbook with reading, listening, speaking, and...
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...
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...
Open Language Resource Center
This site showcases a range of open, freely accessible language‑learning materials created at the University of Kansas,...
Multi-Literacies Lesson Plan - Changing Traditions: The Modern Italian Family
This material includes a four day lesson plan and all learning activities to adopt a multi-literacies approach to Italian...
Piacere! Elementary Italian at The University of Iowa
Piacere! Elementary Italian at The University of Iowa is an open-access textbook that introduces students to the Italian...
Intermediate Italian: Discovering Italy through Authentic Texts
This is the first unit in an intermediate‑level Italian course designed as a bridge to advanced study by engaging...
Exploring Italian Film: A Viewing Experience for Beginning Learners
This assignment invites beginning Italian learners to watch an Italian film and engage with it through structured...
Language Program Direction Interactive Modules | CARLA
The CARLA Language Program Direction (LPD) Interactive Modules are a set of openly licensed training resources designed...
French A1–A2 Role-Play Cards: Introducing yourself and asking personal questions
This learning resource is a task-based French language activity designed to develop communicative competence through...
English Guided Conversations: Introducing yourself and talking about others ( High A2 - low B1)
This learning resource is a structured language lesson designed to develop communicative competence through guided...
French A1 Guided conversations: Asking and describing locations using basic sentencestructures
This learning resource is a structured beginner-level (A1) language lesson designed to develop communicative competence...
Deutsch-Lesen.com
Deutsch Lesen helps you learn German through reading. It publishes authentic articles across topics like science,...
Vocabulary Cube Puzzle
A fun and challenging puzzle to match up English/Spanish vocabulary words and phrases.
Cuentos paralelos español inglés : Proyecto Sherezade y autores : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Cuentos bilingües en texto paralelo en español y en inglés de Proyecto SherezadeBilingual short stories in parallel text...
Décollage - méthode de français pour débutants (version originale 10.02.2025) - Google Drive
Décollage - méthode de français langue étrangère pour débutants The Décollage project was designed by a South African...
Entre o De Nada e o que Isso: Respostas a Agradecimentos no Português Brasileiro e o Ensino de PLE em Contexto DigitalDIGITAL
This essay addresses a topic in teaching/learning of Portuguese as a second or foreign language.
Japanese Introductory 1
Japanese Introductory 1 is a comprehensive and interactive textbook for beginners eager to learn Japanese. Tailored to...
Spanish 4210/Spanish 6210 - Sociolinguistics
The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational...
Mastering Mandarin Sounds: An interactive H5P Pressbook
Mastering Mandarin Sounds: An Interactive H5P Pressbook is an open educational resource (OER) designed to help learners...
Integrating Immersive Technologies into Foreign Language Instruction: Case of Ukrainian Language and Culture
This e-book offers a discussion of immersive technologies in the context of intercultural competence and language...
Multiliteracies at the Museum: A Resource Book for Language Teachers
The educational potential of museum galleries as spaces that are both carefully curated (read: designed) and also afford...
Incorporating Translation in the World Language Classroom
This handbook is designed to help you incorporate translation into your world language classroom as a mediational tool...

New Members

Nikita Archer
Georgetown International Academy
Keith Campbell
Palomar College
Matthew Quinn
California State University, Sacramento
Katrina Naioti
Dept of Ed
Instituto Cervantes
Instituto Cervantes / Spanish Ministry of Culture
Jakir Hussain
Filmmaking
Kimber Hawkey
Talk of the Town Languages & Culture
Michelle Goode-Smith
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punithavalli kumaran
UNITAR
Adrien Meierovitch
independent learner
Frank Finch
California State University, Long Beach
Ariana Anleu
Long Beach Unified School District
Heather Nolen
Lynchburg City
Penny Wheeler
University of Technology, Sydney
David Coyle
St. Francis Xavier University
ELIANA BISTREANU
Liceul Tehnologic General Ioan Culcer
Nicoleta Grigore
Colegiul National Ecaterina Teodoroiu
Katherine Kerschen
Washington University,Saint Louis
Suleiman Halimat
Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo state
Monica Del Valle
UnitedHealth Group
Emily Sposeto
University of Denver
Gabriel Palla
Cervantes
Arcedes José Manuel
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Elizabeth Naranjo Hayes
Truman State University

Materials by Discipline

Arabic (111)
Chinese (227)
ESL or EFL (682)
French (536)
German (188)
Greek (41)
Hebrew (64)
Italian (66)
Japanese (123)
Korean (28)
Latin (64)
Less Commonly Taught Languages (250)
Multilingual Resources (221)
Portuguese (188)
Russian (69)
Spanish (557)

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World Languages on the Web

Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
Feb 21, 2026 01:15 AM PST
Validation of the Simplified Chinese Clear Communication Index Using Diabetes Education Materials
Feb 21, 2026 12:50 AM PST
Prosody – a superpower for effective communication - UNRIC.org
Feb 20, 2026 11:23 PM PST
Voices on multilingual education: ensuring the right to higher education
Feb 20, 2026 09:24 PM PST
Scientists reveal why human language isn't like computer code - ScienceDaily
Feb 20, 2026 07:31 PM PST
Professor Traces Soviet Past Through German Literature - The Colgate Maroon-News
Feb 20, 2026 06:09 PM PST
Laurel Prince - Office of Nationally Competitive Awards | University of Cincinnati
Feb 20, 2026 04:33 PM PST
Indian Women in STEM | Women in Science, Scientists, History, & Achievements - Britannica
Feb 20, 2026 02:37 PM PST
PanSALB calls for bilingual education - YouTube
Feb 20, 2026 12:57 PM PST
2026 Trailblazer Awards celebrate UMSL community members who lead with innovation ...
Feb 20, 2026 12:31 PM PST
China's Erasure of Ethnic Minority Languages - The Diplomat
Feb 20, 2026 12:30 PM PST
Maximizer launches French-language CRM | Investment Executive
Feb 20, 2026 12:27 PM PST
UCI must expand its ASL program | New University | UC Irvine
Feb 20, 2026 11:52 AM PST
FAQs: Checking in on the Department of Education - Brookings Institution
Feb 20, 2026 10:53 AM PST
Call for applications for a 3 years doctoral contract | Sciences Po Centre for European ...
Feb 20, 2026 10:48 AM PST
Ongoing refinements in chronological frameworks describing the presence of Indo ...
Feb 20, 2026 10:29 AM PST
Students Research AI's Promise and Peril | Bowdoin College
Feb 20, 2026 10:24 AM PST
Student Research Q&A: Rural Native communities build resilience through cultural strength
Feb 20, 2026 10:12 AM PST
Auburn College of Education graduate student named Alabama World Languages ...
Feb 20, 2026 09:36 AM PST
The Language Nobody Wants to Speak About: Russian's Uneasy Place in Central Asia's ...
Feb 20, 2026 08:51 AM PST