Spanish Open Education Resources

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

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

Project Gutenberg provides a Language Education Bookshelf with a list of free and openly accessible Spanish books.

Online textbook developed by the Spanish In Texas project covering Spanish grammar.

Learn how to ask for directions, shop for clothes, and order food and drinks in the sixth Spanish for Beginners course. Join us on a journey across the Americas and learn the basics of the Spanish language as you discover Latin American culture.

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.

Open Learn provides seven Spanish courses ranging from beginners to advanced Spanish, such as "Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink", "Spanish: Perspectivas porteñas", and "Spanish: espacios públicos."

OLI is a collection of evidence-based tools and approaches to learning that are proven to boost student success, and enable instructors to be more effective.

The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain. Students are also expected to read four of Cervantes’ Exemplary Stories, Cervantes’ Don Quixote: A Casebook, and J.H. Elliott’s Imperial Spain.

Spanish language video clips with subtitles for teaching. Part of the Spanish In Texas Corpus project.

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.

Free Spanish podcasts arranged by level of proficiency, with exercises, textbook, personal stats, and other learning resources.

Lessons, phrases, vocabulary, tests, and links to news sources in 40 languages.

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.

LibriVox contains recordings of literary classics, autobiographies, plays, and poetry among many other genres all recorded in a variety of languages. English, French, Germain and Italian are just a few of all languages represented on LibriVox.

Comprehensive resource for a wide range of languages. Search by language, proficiency level, and source language. Each language has a large number of resources.

Uses images and audio to help memorize vocabulary. Interactive site that saves individual progress.

Resources for Spanish, French, and Chinese. 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 picturebooks organized thematically, as well as a list of vetted links.

Gives students the necessary language skills to successfully employ Spanish in a variety of social situations. Focuses on oral communication and uses popular media for listening practice.

Has study modules, interactive activities, links to other resources, video with audio.

List of resources (for mostly French, Spanish and German) compiled as part of a federally funded grant to identify open educational resources for World Language teachers in Maine.

In the Wrong Way to Learn Spanish, we focus on learning by doing. It is there to be used as a guide rather than the main structured teaching of school-books. Most learning in The Wrong Way to Learn Spanish method takes the form of games and entertainment : trivia, live game shows played by the student, role-playing, jokes, and stories.

This course is designed for English speakers. Knowing Spanish will help you succeed and aid you when visiting a Spanish-speaking country or learning another Romance language, such as French, Italian, or Portuguese.

General Spanish language course.