Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library: Affordable Learning Solutions: Open Educational Resources by College: Italian

Italian

La Mappa Misteriosa
An online Italian language course for beginners presented by the BBC. Practical spoken Italian. An Italian-learning video adventure, a quest and a race, where you will decide the ending.
Digital Dialects
Interactive games for learning the Italian language. Mostly aimed at beginner to lower-intermediate levelled learners of Italian. There are a couple of vocabulary building activities for intermediate to advanced learners on the Italian advanced activities page.
Radio Arlecchino
From the University of Texas at Austin, podcasts for learning Italian grammar, which also includes pdf files for dialog transcripts with additional grammar and cultural notes.
Content ceased as of 2009

Resources for Multiple Languages

MERLOT World Languages
An educational resource for teaching and learning languages. Free materials for for many different languages.
BBC Languages
Lessons, phrases, vocabulary, tests, and links to news sources in 40 languages. Site is no longer updated, but most resources are still very useful.
LangMedia
A collection of target language videos done by international students from the Five Colleges of Massachusetts in their home countries. Includes: Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Greek, Italian, and Portuguese.
GLOSS
Global Language Online Support System from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA.

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Lessons are developed for independent learners to provide them with the learning/teaching tools for improving their foreign language skills. Reading and listening lessons are based on authentic materials (articles, TV reports, radio broadcasts, etc.) and consist of 4 to 6 activities. Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Gulf-Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning
U. of Texas at Austin site with links to language learning resources for Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish.
Memrise
Uses images and audio to help memorize vocabulary. Interactive site that saves individual progress.
Mis Cositas
Resources for Spanish, French, Chinese, and Italian. Includes: Videos, thematic curriculum units complete lesson plans, student worksheets and resources, downloadable materials collections with activities, manipulatives and mini-posters over 40 virtual illustrated Picture books organized thematically, as well as a list of vetted links.
MIT Open Courseware
MIT's Global Studies and Languages department offers an extensive collection of online courses. Course format includes, lecture videos, interactive concept quizzes (solution key), problem sets, terms and definitions, suggested topics and links, and exams (with solution key).
Mango Languages
A San Jose Public Library card is required to use.

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Available from the San Jose Public Library, this database provides language instruction in Arabic; Chinese; Dari; French; German; Greek; Hebrew; Hindi; Irish; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Persian; Portuguese; Pushto; Russian; Spanish; Tagalog; Thai; Turkish; Urdu; and Vietnamese.