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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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Denise HendrickLearning Together, AV -
Donna ReidlingerUniversity of Queensland
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Maria Jesus Funes LermaHunan Normal University
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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
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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Indian Students Cool on 'American Dream' as EU Opens Its Doors - USNews.com
Jul 20, 2026 06:31 AM PDT
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Jantar Mantar: What is the Gen Z CJP protest in Delhi about? - BBC
Jul 20, 2026 05:40 AM PDT
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English learner students are leaving Boston Public Schools in droves
Jul 20, 2026 05:35 AM PDT
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The hunger-striking engineer demanding education reforms in India - BBC
Jul 20, 2026 05:34 AM PDT
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Ukrainian refugee children in UK risk losing mother tongue, study warns - University of York
Jul 20, 2026 04:48 AM PDT
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Opening minds and hearts: Jerome Spanish teacher shares power of bilingualism
Jul 20, 2026 04:00 AM PDT
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Open digital teaching resources for language education | Paderborn University
Jul 20, 2026 02:46 AM PDT
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Indian students cool on 'American Dream' as EU opens its doors | Reuters
Jul 20, 2026 02:08 AM PDT
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Changing the face of learning and speaking foreign languages with AI | The Jerusalem Post
Jul 20, 2026 01:58 AM PDT
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Finding meaning in and beyond words: Alisa Tian | Inside UNSW
Jul 20, 2026 01:08 AM PDT
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Qonsowa Represents Prime Minister at French National Day Celebration and Delivers ...
Jul 19, 2026 10:25 PM PDT
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Lingnan University study: AI falls short on context and cultural rhetoric. Research published ...
Jul 19, 2026 09:29 PM PDT
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During Captive Nations Week, ICT urges US Congress to pass the 'Assuring the Future of ...
Jul 19, 2026 04:31 PM PDT
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University of Bucharest Admissions 2026 Summer Session: Record Competition and ... - UniBuc
Jul 19, 2026 01:23 PM PDT
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NJU holds 2026 Training Program for Inheritance of Educators' Spirit-Nanjing University
Jul 19, 2026 12:46 PM PDT
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KIST European Research Institute Transforms into Korea-EU Science Hub
Jul 19, 2026 11:15 AM PDT
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Opinion: Ukraine's Children Are Rebuilding Their Futures Far From Home - Kyiv Post
Jul 19, 2026 10:22 AM PDT
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US House Republicans take 'first step' toward dismantling Department of Education
Jul 19, 2026 10:10 AM PDT
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Interview: AI partnership with China creates opportunities for Africa's socioeconomic dev't
Jul 19, 2026 09:05 AM PDT
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Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all | TechCrunch
Jul 19, 2026 08:32 AM PDT