Research Guides: Open Educational Resources Subject Guide: Spanish

Textbooks

Antología abierta de literatura hispana
A critical anthology of literary texts from the Spanish-speaking world. A focus on canonical authors and an attempt to include voices that have been marginalized. Each text includes an introduction and annotations created by students.
Hola a Todos: Elementary Spanish I
Grammar and vocabulary pre-class activities, lectures, and post-class homework are included.
Libro Libre Introductory Spanish
Introduction to Spanish textbook from Spokane Falls Community College.
Spanish
Covers all of the major grammar rules, moving slowly and offering exercises and plenty of examples as well as vocabulary and phrases. From Wikibooks.
Spanish 001
Elementary Spanish textbook from Penn State.
Spanish I
"Throughout this course, you will find fact sections that contain facts about Spanish-speaking countries or their cultures." The site operates as a wiki, so it is continually updated by participants."
Spanish I
Introduction to Spanish OER textbook by Lumen Learning
Spanish I: Beginning Spanish Language and Culture
Peer-reviewed textbook with themed chapters divided into 8 sections. Includes assignments, exercises, group activities, and more.
Yo puedo: para empezar
Designed for a beginning Spanish course using the flipped classroom methodology.
Yo puedo: segundo pasos
Second semester Spanish textbook based on the flipped classroom model.

COERLL Lessons, Grammar, Drills
The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning provides free lesson plans, activities, videos, grammar drills and more.
World Language Resources
Open Educational Resources in World Languages

Destinos
"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. It also introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico, helping students understand a range of Spanish and appreciate many Hispanic cultures."
SpinTX Videos
"The SpinTX video archive provides access to selected video clips and transcripts from the Spanish in Texas Corpus, a collection of video interviews with bilingual Spanish speakers in Texas"
Spanish Proficiency Exercises
A compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks.

Open Learning Initiative Spanish 1
Spanish I is media-rich and interactive, driven by video that was shot on-site in Guadalajara, Mexico. This course is available for low-cost use by instructor-led classes of enrolled students, and can be adapted for a hybrid delivery system or solely distance delivery. Please note: the Open & Free version of Spanish I contains just a sample of the content, and not the full course.
Spanish 103- Review of Elementary Spanish
SPANISH 103 is an introductory course to the Spanish language and culture.
Spanish 121
Students will learn vocabulary related to greetings and farewells, courtesy expressions, college courses, professions, family relationships, pastimes, city places, numbers, days of the week, months and how to tell time
Spanish 122
"Students will learn vocabulary related to transportation and lodging, days of the week, months, seasons, weather expressions, clothing, colors, daily routine, personal hygiene, sequencing expressions, foods, meals and adjectives that describe food."
Elementary Spanish for Heritage Speakers 2
This online course pulls free OER content together by week and unit. Includes videos, readings, and practice.
Spanish 123
"Students will learn vocabulary related to celebrations and the stages of life, personal relationships, health and medical conditions and parts of the body, the car and its accessories, computers and electronic products, the parts of the house and household chores and table settings."

Audiria
"Audiria is an online tool which freely supports your learning of Spanish, offering podcasts to increase your knowledge of the language."
Duolingo: Spanish
"On Duolingo, you'll learn a version of Spanish closer to what you'd hear in Latin America than in Spain, but the differences are relatively small and everybody will be able to understand you."
Mixxer
"The Mixxer is a free educational site for language learners hosted by Dickinson College. The Mixxer is designed to connect language learners around the world so that everyone is both student and teacher."
Spanish Grammar in Context
"Spanish Grammar in Context is a unique website that provides detailed grammar explanations and examples of the Spanish language with accompanying practice questions. Unlike traditional reference grammars, each topic is explained using authentic video examples."