List of open-source resources for teaching ancient languages, including textbooks.

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.

Speech Acts in Films is a site where students of Mandarin Chinese learn to examine, understand, and practice social language through the medium of film. The primary audience of the materials are low-advanced and advanced learners who completed approximately two years of language instruction. The materials have been developed for blended-learning environments, but can also be used for self-study, or as supplemental materials in traditional instructional settings.

Type text and listen to it read aloud by computer voices in English, French, German, Italian, and Arabic.

Virtual Arabic keyboard. Use this keyboard to type, then copy and paste Arabic text wherever you need it.

US Government online English lessons.

Social network for language learning based on the premise of living in a town with other learners of that language. Includes various means of communicating, including forums and voice chat. Also includes language learning resources.

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

Video explanations of Japanese grammar topics, plus quizzes.

Type in Latin characters that are tranliterated into Arabic.

A suite of web-based tools for recording, editing, and converting audio and video right in the browser. No login required.

Choose the right characters to complete the word, based on clues. This version asks for Japanese prefecture names. Other versions are easier: http://serious-games.jp/tensai-juku/23/03.html http://serious-games.jp/tensai-juku/23/02.html

In this game, you select items from the nabe (hot pot) according to what you are told, in order.

Play Shiritori against the computer. In this game, you have to type a word that begins with the character that the previous word ended with. If you type a word that ends with "ん", the game ends--because no words begin with ん.

Game for Japanese children in which you match up hiragana on cards to form the names of sea creatures.

Game for Japanese children in which you match up hiragana on cards to form the names of foods.

Game for Japanese children in which you match up hiragana on cards to form the names of animals.

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. 

Generate fake social media profiles and websites.

Language exchange service for college classes learning Portuguese.