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If you are looking for a Spanish language module that incorporates all language skills, reading, writing, listening and speaking, go no further. Ojala que llueva cafe provides the opportunity to teach your students how to listen to and speak Spanish. Rich, pedagogically-sound modules use multimedia to engage a variety of learning styles. The site also incorporates a real-world character, and will stimulate a deeper awareness of Dominican culture. With music, photography, and interactive exercises, Ojala can create a vibrant context for learning in your classroom.

Discover "Kaleidoskop" and see how Germans spend their days, what they do, think, and feel. Extensive yet uncluttered, this highly interactive site offers an ever-increasing resource that lets visitors learn more about the German people and their country. Students will find outstanding material, and instructors will find valuable teaching suggestions.

This site includes Pedagogical activities on a wide variety of topics in French civilization. Modules including audio, video interviews with native speakers, exercises, dialogues and many external links. There is also an authentic presentation of culture through photographs.

LangMedia provides access to authentic materials that can be used in a wide variety of pedagogical settings. It features less commonly taught languages from Bangla to Wolof, as well as excellent materials in French, Spanish and other more commonly taught languages. It has a learner-centered design and appeals to a variety of learning styles. (From the Material Detail in MERLOT, click on the link to the accompanying video by the author).

The Texas Language Technology Center is a model for innovation in technology-enhanced learning materials to teach languages. Many of its projects have won prestigious awards already and several have received five-star peer reviews in MERLOT, such as Tex’s French Grammar, Le Francais interactif, Ta Falado and Spanish Proficiency Exercises.

NOVOSTI NEDELI delivers a survey of the previous week's news in simplified standard Russian language. The site provides recordings of Russian news presented at a slightly slower rate of speech, pre-listening background information and exercises, vocabulary support and post-listening activities with interactive exercises and transcripts. MERLOT World Languages applauds Dr. Robin’s use of authentic materials to enhance the listening comprehension of students of this critical language.

Visualizing Japanese Grammar is an extensive tutorial site created by Professor Shoko Hamano at George Washington University with illustration work by Wakana Kikuchi and partly funded by Japan Foundation. This site offers 66 units of various grammatical structures ranging from basics such as “counters”, to advanced units such as “adversity passive” in flash files with audio explanation in English and 12 Powerpoint downloadable appendices. Each unit consists of 5-10 minutes of presentations depending on the topic.

MisCositas.com is a free web resource that offers teachers a variety of materials for teaching languages: Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, Thai and ESL. One can find the materials by language or by material type.

Read Chinese is a program designed for the novice, intermediate, and advanced readers of Chinese. It is a collection of a variety of relevant reading materials for these three levels of learners. Although it was originally developed to meet the needs of high school students, higher education students and individual learners who wish to review and practice their reading ability in Chinese will also find it useful. The reading materials reflect the national standards established for Chinese by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). This is particularly useful for students who are prospective teachers of Chinese. The reading materials are presented in both traditional and simplified characters to reach a wider audience.