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This website contains a corpus of the modern Russian language incorporating over 300 million words. The corpus of Russian is a reference system based on a collection of Russian texts in electronic form. The Corpus is intended for all who are interested in the Russian language and various associated fields: professional linguists, language teachers, school and university students, foreigners learning the language.

Между нами is a free, web-based textbook that provides a comprehensive introduction to Russian language and culture. It is organized around the experiences of four American students, each spending the academic year in a different Russian city. Their interactions with host families, roommates, fellow students and teachers create a universe of contextualized information that motivates the use of the target language in the classroom. Добро пожаловать! Между нами is a free, web-based textbook that provides a comprehensive introduction to Russian language and culture. It is organized around the experiences of four American students, each spending the academic year in a different Russian city. Their interactions with host families, roommates, fellow students and teachers create a universe of contextualized information that motivates the use of the target language in the classroom.

Reading Russian Short Stories is an open resource by Filip Zachoval that contains stories written in Russian by different authors in the 20th and 21st centuries, each accompanied by questions and assignments. The collection is designed for learners of Russian, including heritage learners. There are numerous texts that are suitable for novice-high or intermediate-low learners. However, the majority of these texts are more suitable for learners who have reached or are about to enter higher levels of language competence, i.e. students at intermediate and advanced levels.

Russian music videos. Students are able to perfect their grammar while rocking out to music videos from Russia's pop stars. Based on Russian music videos from MTV Russia, Rockin' Russian is supplemented with exercise materials focusing on pronunciation, vocabulary development, grammar and cultural features.

Morpheem teaches you new Russian words by showing you how they are used. By repeating them in different contexts they are safely stored in your long-term memory.

Karaoke-style Russian-learning videos. Also includes flashcard tools.

Sample chapters of textbooks focused on case marking are available for Czech and Russian. Exercises are available for both languages with feedback. The book and exercises on Polish are forthcoming.

Free online Russian lessons for beginners.

Play 20 questions again the computer in English, Japanese, German, Portuguese, Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Turkish, or Dutch.

Tutorial on the Russian alphabet, including pronunciation.

Online course in Estonian language. Available for Russian and English speakers.

This Library resource is meant to give a brief overview of some the valuable sites and services the Internet has to help language learners augment their study and to help teachers make the subject come alive with pertinent and helpful materials. 

This free tool allows you to create hypermedia glosses including text, pictures, videos, audio. It is available in many languages. A.k.a. FLAn: foreign language annotator. Created by Dr. Thom Thibault, who is very active in CALICO

Text to speech with a simple avatar. Can also be used to translate from English into another language, then into speech.

online dictionaries for many languages that also has useful forums, where users can post and reply to questions regarding language meaning and usage

Images from many cultures.

Word matching game in 8 languages.

Collection of language lesson plans.

Use your mouse or trackpad to input text in Gmail and Google Docs. Useful for practicing handwriting, especially in languages that do not use the Latin alphabet.

Dictionary for multiple language pairs. Includes examples in context from parallel translations.