Research Guides: OER: Spanish

The Orange Grove

Hispanic Culture for the Spanish Classroom
"This collection includes cultural-themed modules (in English and in Spanish) aimed at the introductory Spanish language classroom (high school and college). It includes reading passages and lesson plans that emphasize Hispanic culture through authentic material (such as photographs, images, letters, documents, etc.)"

College Open Books

Wrong Way to Learn Spanish
'In the Wrong Way to Learn Spanish, we focus on learning by doing. The method does have a textbook, but it is there to be used as a guide rather than the main structured teaching of school-books."
Spanish 1
"Welcome learners to Spanish 1, your aid in learning the Spanish language. This course is designed for English speakers."

Merlot II

Spanish
"Textbook for beginning Spanish courses that covers all of the major grammar rules, moving slowly and offering exercises and plenty of examples as well as vocabulary and phrases"
Spanish I
"Throughout this course, you will find fact sections that contain facts about Spanish-speaking countries or their cultures." The site operates as a wiki, so it is continually updated by participants."

OpenStax CNX Spanish

OpenStax Spanish
Several open textbooks on topics related to learning the Spanish language.

OER Commons

Oral Communication in Spanish
" Gives students the necessary language skills to successfully employ Spanish in a variety of social situations."

YouTube Channels

Annenberg Learner: Destinos

Destinos
"Destinos teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish. This telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, immerses students in a mysterious and entertaining story while viewing everyday situations with native speakers. It also introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico, helping students understand a range of Spanish and appreciate many Hispanic cultures."

SpinTX Videos

SpinTX Videos
"The SpinTX video archive provides access to selected video clips and transcripts from the Spanish in Texas Corpus, a collection of video interviews with bilingual Spanish speakers in Texas"

Open Course Library

Open Course Library was developed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges and is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Washington State Legislature. This material is created under a Creative Commons license with the intent that you take it and make it your own.

Spanish 121
Students will learn vocabulary related to greetings and farewells, courtesy expressions, college courses, professions, family relationships, pastimes, city places, numbers, days of the week, months and how to tell time
Spanish 122
"Students will learn vocabulary related to transportation and lodging, days of the week, months, seasons, weather expressions, clothing, colors, daily routine, personal hygiene, sequencing expressions, foods, meals and adjectives that describe food."
Spanish 123
"Students will learn vocabulary related to celebrations and the stages of life, personal relationships, health and medical conditions and parts of the body, the car and its accessories, computers and electronic products, the parts of the house and household chores and table settings."

Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning COERLL

Spanish Grammar in Context
"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."
SpinTX Video Archive
" The collection includes hundreds of video clips culled from interviews of native and heritage speakers of Spanish living in Texas."

Open Learning Initiative

Spanish 1
"'This course is part of a two-semester sequence (Spanish I & II). Each course is divided into twelve thematic lessons, with ample opportunity for reentry and review. Completing both courses will require two semesters"

World Language Resources

World Language Resources
Open Educational Resources in World Languages

Lingu@net Worldwide

Open Michigan

Spanish 103- Review of Elementary Spanish
SPANISH 103 is an introductory course to the Spanish language and culture.

Simulations

Mixxer
"The Mixxer is a free educational site for language learners hosted by Dickinson College. The Mixxer is designed to connect language learners around the world so that everyone is both student and teacher."

Other Resources

Duolingo: Spanish
"On Duolingo, you'll learn a version of Spanish closer to what you'd hear in Latin America than in Spain, but the differences are relatively small and everybody will be able to understand you."

Videos

Audiria

Audiria
"Audiria is an online tool which freely supports your learning of Spanish, offering podcasts to increase your knowledge of the language."

OER

Spanish OER