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Language: free textbooks, books and online courses
404 free Language books (102 to read here, 302 linking to the free copy at its source); 142 Language courses and 40 related courses (142 with a course page on RedLectern, 40 opening on MIT OpenCourseWare).
Free Language online courses
- A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and SocietyMIT 21G.040 · Browse materials
- Abnormal LanguageMIT 9.56J · Browse materials
- Accelerated Introductory Portuguese for Spanish SpeakersMIT 21G.880 · Browse materials
- Advanced Natural Language ProcessingMIT 6.864 · Browse materials
- Advanced Spanish Conversation and CompositionMIT 21G.711 · Browse materials
- Advanced Speaking and Critical Listening Skills (ELS)MIT 21G.232 · Browse materials
- Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Films of Luis BuñuelMIT 21G.735 · Browse materials
- Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European CultureMIT 21G.061 · Browse materials
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- Advanced Workshop in Writing for Science and Engineering (ELS)MIT 21G.225 · Browse materials
- Africa and the Politics of KnowledgeMIT 21G.025 · Browse materials
- After ColumbusMIT 21L.007J · Browse materials
- Asia in the Modern World: Images & RepresentationsMIT 21G.027 · Browse materials · Video
- Basic Themes in French Literature and CultureMIT 21G.312 · Browse materials
- Childhood and Youth in French and Francophone CulturesMIT 21G.321 · Browse materials
- Chinese CalligraphyMIT 21G.111 · Browse materials · Video
- Chinese I (Regular)MIT 21G.101 · Browse materials · Video
- Chinese I (Streamlined)MIT 21G.107 · Browse materials · Video
- Chinese II (Regular)MIT 21G.102 · Browse materials
- Chinese II (Streamlined)MIT 21G.108 · Browse materials
- Chinese III (Regular)MIT 21G.103 · Browse materials
- Chinese IV (Regular)MIT 21G.104 · Browse materials
- Chinese IV (Streamlined)MIT 21G.110 · Browse materials
- Chinese V (Regular): Chinese Cultures & SocietyMIT 21G.105 · Browse materials
- Chinese VI (Regular): Discovering Chinese Cultures and SocietiesMIT 21G.106 · Browse materials
- Classics of Chinese LiteratureMIT 21G.044 · Browse materials
- Communicating Across CulturesMIT 21G.019 · Browse materials
- Communicating in American Culture(s)MIT 21G.221 · Browse materials
- Computer Language Engineering (SMA 5502)MIT 6.035 · Browse materials · Video
- ConLangs: How to Construct a LanguageMIT 24.917 · Browse materials
- Contemporary French Film and Social IssuesMIT 21G.341 · Browse materials
- Contemporary Short French Fiction: Social and Literary Trends since 1990MIT 21G.347 · Browse materials
- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Contemporary French SocietyMIT 21G.315 · Browse materials
- Cultural Performances of AsiaMIT 21G.067J · Browse materials
- East Asian Culture: From Zen to K-PopMIT 21G.030 · Browse materials
- European Thought and CultureMIT 21G.059 · Browse materials
- French Film ClassicsMIT 21G.052 · Browse materials
- French IMIT 21G.301 · Browse materials
- French IIMIT 21G.302 · Browse materials
- French PhotographyMIT 21G.049 · Browse materials
- Frenchness in an Era of GlobalizationMIT 21G.322J · Browse materials
How these courses are chosen
Listed as Language courses:
- those whose department’s name includes “Global Studies and Languages”, or
- those whose title contains “Language”, or
- those tagged “Language” as one of at most 2 topic tags, or as the first of 3.
Free Language textbooks and books
- Mikhail Bakunin · Read here → · Cited by 1 MIT course
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Read here → · Cited by 1 MIT course
- Freud, Sigmund. “E · Read here → · Cited by 1 MIT course
- Joseph Conrad · Read here → · Cited by 1 MIT course
- Émile Zola · Read here → · Cited by 1 MIT course
- Herbert Allen Giles · Read here →
- Arthur Waley · Read here →
- L. Cranmer-Byng · Read here →
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- Faxian; trans. James Legge · Read here →
- Benito Pérez Galdós · Read here →
- Franz Kafka · Read here →
- Inazo Nitobe · Read here →
- Cirilo Villaverde · Read here →
- ed. Epiphanius Wilson · Read here →
- Zhuangzi; trans. Herbert Allen Giles · Read here →
- Izumo Takeda · Read here →
- Benito Pérez Galdós · Read here →
- Franz Kafka · Read here →
- Heinrich von Kleist · Read here →
- Buddha; F. Max Müller (translator) · Read here →
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Read here →
- Franz Kafka · Read here →
- Miguel de Cervantes · Read here →
- Marcel Proust · Read here →
- Theodor Fontane · Read here →
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Read here →
- José Hernández · Read here →
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento · Read here →
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Read here →
- Florence Ayscough · Read here →
- Ernest Belfort Bax · Read here →
- Lafcadio Hearn · Read here →
- Benito Pérez Galdós · Read here →
- Otto Jespersen · Read here →
- Mahatma Gandhi · Read here →
- Lafcadio Hearn · Read here →
- Yei Theodora Ozaki · Read here →
- editor Epiphanius Wilson · Read here →
- Lafcadio Hearn · Read here →
- Pang Im · Read here →
- Lafcadio Hearn · Read here →
- Benito Pérez Galdós · Read here →
- editor Federico Ruiz Morcuende · Read here →
- Emilia Pardo Bazán · Read here →
- Kate Greenaway · Read here →
- Edward Sapir · Read here →
- Otto Jespersen · Read here →
- Raymond Radiguet · Read here →
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur · Read here →
- Eugène Aubert · Read here →
- Honoré de Balzac · Read here →
- Gustave Flaubert · Read here →
- Wilhelm Busch · Read here →
- Peter Kropotkin · Read here →
- Grady Ward · Read here →
- Ethel Home · Read here →
- Walter Raymond Spalding · Read here →
- Dalip Singh Saund · Read here →
- Rabindranath Tagore · Read here →
- Arthur Rimbaud · Read here →