Looking for online authentic materials for your course?

DIGITAL VIDEO & AUDIO

• LangMedia – Five College Center, MA

http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/lm_collection.html
The goal of LangMedia is to provide examples of authentic language spoken in its natural cultural environment so that students of all ages can better understand the interplay between a language and its culture. International students shot most of the video in their home countries using handheld camcorders and microphones provided by the Center. The video and audio quality varies. Most of the transcripts and translations were prepared by the same students who filmed the video, although in some cases the transcripts have also been edited by a language expert.

• OhioLINK Foreign Language Database

http://worlddmc.ohiolink.edu/Language/Login
The ViewPoints Project is a growing collection of foreign language video clips in which native speakers elaborate on a wide variety of topics about their culture, family, daily life, and more. Each video is accompanied by a description of its contents, the country of the speaker, and additional grammar and vocabulary notes. Videos are available in QuickTime format.

• San Diego State University Digital Media Archive

http://larcdma.sdsu.edu/user/index.php
The DMA is LARC's online tool for creating widespread national and international access to shared language resources via the Internet. Their overall goal is to facilitate fast and easy access to these materials for foreign language research, teaching and learning.

IMAGES

• The REALIA Project

http://www.realiaproject.org/
The REALIA Project publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures. Faculty and students at all levels are encouraged to contribute materials to their searchable, online database. The focus of the REALIA Project is realia: Materials which convey the everyday life of different cultures.

• ArtStor

http://www.artstor.org

The ArtStor database is accessible to all UMD faculty & students. It houses over 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

MISCELLANEOUS

• The Language Materials Project for Less Commonly Taught Languages

http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/
The UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) is an on-line bibliographic database of teaching and learning materials for over 100 Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs). The LMP, which is funded by the US Department of Education International Education and Graduate Program Service, was created in 1992. The LMP is a unit of the UCLA Language Resource Center. Both the LMP and the UCLA Language Resource Center are affiliated with the UCLA International Institute.

• BBC Languages

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
Contains elementary level audio, text and video for several European languages

TEXT

• Project Gutenburg

http://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books on the Internet. Their collection of more than 13.000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use.