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BBC Languages. Openculture Languages. How to learn languages for free?

Openculture Languages

This collection features lessons in 48 languages, including Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Italian, Russian and more. Download audio lessons to your computer or mp3 player and you’re good to go. Amharic Foreign Service Institute Basic Amharic – Audio – TextbookLessons with dialogues, drills, exercises, and narratives will teach you the basics of this language spoken in Ethiopia.

Includes samples of speech, explanations of basic language structures, and a variety of practical exercises. Ancient Greek Ancient Greek Introduction – Web SiteThe UT-Austin Linguistics Research Center provides an overview of Ancient Greek and 10 lessons based on famous Greek texts. Arabic Bookmark our free Arabic lessons section.

American Sign Language Introductory American Sign Language Course – YouTubeBy the end of this course you should have a basic bank of ASL words that you are able to use to form simple sentences. Bambara Bulgarian Cambodian Catalan Chinese Czech Danish Dutch Lao. Gutenberg eLibrary. Learn Out Loud. Lit2Go Audio Collection. LibriVox Vudio Library. Internet Audio Archive. The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Internet Audio Archive

The library was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the university's Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. It contains readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S.literary avant-garde. The collection represents several generations of artists who have contributed to aesthetic and cultural change in the postmodern era. The Naropa University Archive Project seeks to enhance appreciation and understanding of post-World War II American literature and its role in social change, cultural criticism, and the literary arts through widespread dissemination of the actual voices of the poets and writers of this period. See a Tag Cloud for the this collection. Read Print Library.

Internet Text Archive. Additional collections of scanned books, articles, and other texts (usually organized by topic) are presented here.

Internet Text Archive

The American Libraries collection includes material contributed from across the United States. Institutions range from the Library of Congress to many local public libraries. Technology Education Design. Open Source Textbooks. Connexions Open Source Learning. Open Source Learning Environment. Free Textbook Collection.

Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon.

Free Textbook Collection

Below, find a meta list of 200 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions. Also see our online collection, 1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities. Art History A Textbook of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke, Rutgers Biology Anatomy and Physiology – Edited by various profs at OpenStaxBiology – Edited by various profs at OpenStaxBiology Pages, John W. Business and Management Business Ethics by Jose A. Chemistry Chemistry, Grades 10-12, Created by the FHSST Project (Free High School Science Texts)Chemistry Virtual Textbooks by Stephen Lower, Simon Fraser UniversityCK-12 Chemistry (Grades 9-12) by multiple authors. Classics Computer Science & Information Systems Earth Science CK-12 Earth Science for Middle School by multiple authors.Earth Systems, an Earth Science Course (Grades 9-10).

Economics & Finance Education Electrical Engineering Engineering History Languages. Google Talks. Nobel Prize Media Player. FORA. NOVA. Can Wind Turbines Make You Sick?

NOVA

Residents living in the shadows of wind turbines say the sound is making them sick. But so far the science isn't there. From NOVA Next | Jun 27, 2018 Thirty Years Ago Today, Global Warming First Made Headline News On June 23, a NASA climate scientist, James Hansen, told a U.S. From NOVA Next | Jun 23, 2018 New Middle Eastern Particle Accelerator’s Motto is “Science for Peace” In a region in turmoil, an unprecedented joint venture of scientists and policymakers is working together on Jordan’s new particle accelerator under the motto "science for peace.

" From NOVA Next | Jun 21, 2018 Psychological Damage Inflicted By Parent-Child Separation is Deep, Long-Lasting Here's what happens in the brain and the body when a child is forcibly separated from his or her parents. Academic CourseLectures. Khan Academy. Subject Based Video Lectures. College Course Lectures. OCW Consortium. MIT Open Courseware. Open Yale Courses. UC Berkeley Webcasts. Kevin E.

UC Berkeley Webcasts

Healy The Graduate Group Introductory Seminar - An introduction to research in bioengineering including specific case studies and organization of this rapidly expanding and diverse field. Gary L. Firestone, Andrew Dillin, Jennifer A Doudna, Michael Meighan General Biology Lecture - General introduction to cell structure and function, molecular and organismal genetics, animal development, form and function. Michael Meighan General Biology Laboratory - Laboratory that accompanies 1A lecture course. Alan Shabel, George Roderick, Lewis J Feldman General introduction to plant development, form, and function; population genetics, ecology, and evolution. Daniel Garcia The Beauty and Joy of Computing - An introduction to the beauty and joy of computing.

John Kubiatowicz Operating Systems and System Programming - Basic concepts of operating systems and system programming. Armando Fox. MIT Video. All videos spotlight Celebrating Charles M.

MIT Video

Vest A Gathering To Honor And Celebrate The Life Of Charles M. Vest On Thursday March 6, MIT hosted a gathering to to celebrate the life of Charles M. MIT Club of the Delaware Valley, Meeting with U.S. MIT Club of the Delaware Valley, Meeting with U.S. On January 17, 2014, the MIT Club of the Delaware Valley and the Delaware Section of the American Chemical Society hosted United States Senator Chris Coons Ju Li: Elastic Strain Engineering.

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