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CLEAR Resource Collection

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About the Collection

Our materials are available to be checked out to any American University student, staff, or faculty member or used in-site if they are non-circulating items. In order to borrow any of the circulating items in the collection all you need is your AU ID.

The Center for Language Exploration, Acquisition and Research (CLEAR) holds over 3,000 Foreign Language titles includingÌýfilms, textbooks, audio books, workbooks, dictionaries and self-teaching materials.

We welcome suggestions for new materials—just contact us and let us know what you'd be interested in. We are always looking to expand the collection, so if you have materials related to language or linguistics that you would like to donate, please contact us or stop by the Center. Contributions to our collections are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

General Resources

  • : Links to sites related to the study of languages and cultures
  • : Learn to speak a foreign language online.
    Please use this website at your own risk! This website may circumvent installed pop-up blockers
  • Foreign Language Teaching Forum
    SUNY Cortland - Department of International Communications and Culture. Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Offers self-instructional courses.

Collection Location

Location Icon Anderson Hall, B-10

While classes are in session, CLEAR is open

  • 9am - 9pm, Mondays through Thursdays,
  • 9am -5pm on Fridays and
  • 2-7pm on Sundays.

Holdings & Policies

  • Books: The majority of the collection can be checked out for 14 days, with the exception of reference and reserve items, that circulate for 3Ìýhours.Ìý

  • DVDs: 7 day checkout.ÌýA maximum of 3 DVDs per series may be borrowed at any one time.

  • Fines: AU students, faculty and staff may obtain and return the materials within CLEAR. Any fines accrued must be paid at the Bender University Library Circulation Desk.

Language-Specific Resources

  • Paris, France

These sites provide links to a wide variety of literary and French-language resources, including literary criticism, full-text access to historical, non-copyrighted literary works, bibliographies, and topics lists.


  • Council of International Francophone Studies (Conseil International d"Etudes Francophones) is a nonprofit with aims to encourage interdisciplinary studies within French speaking communities and all those interested in the Francophone world. This page contains a list of recommended links.
  • Online Wörterbuch der Technischen Universitaet München

  • Erlanger Liste: Links to various types of dictionaries: Etymological, Fremdwoerter, Vocabulary, Grammatik, Old and Middle High German

  • Links to dictionaries & encyclopaedias on Business & Law

  • Online Enzyklopaedia available in many languages

  • Online database in German

  • German-English and English-German Dictionary, also thesaurus, synonyms

  • Search facility. Dictionaries and Glossaries for German incl word formation, spelling, morphology; Online grammar - all areas

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Electronic Texts in Modern Slavic Languages

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  • . Miles de textos literarios gratuitos, tanto clásicos como contemporáneos.
  • online news and live television from Chile using the RealVideo Player.
  • is online 24 hour/day in mono or stereo.
  • LA RADIO EN VIVO is radio station from Spain that you can listen to online.
  • Ultimas noticias y Radio en directo : Live online radio and news from Spain.
  • is live radio from Canal Sur.
  • live radio Bogota, Colombia - news, sports, talk.
  • destinada a los profesores de español como segunda lengua.
  • is the electronic edition of the Spanish newspaper.
  • is the electronic edition of the Spanish newspaper.
  • is the electronic edition of the Spanish newspaper.
  • is an electronic edition of this daily newspaper from Mexico.
  • is an electronic edition of this magazine from Mexico with sections on politics, economics, international news, culture, liesure, and sports.
  • is an electronic edition of this daily newspaper from Costa Rica.
  • is another on-line Spanish verb conjugation program.
  • is a listing of on-line dictionaries for the Spanish language. This is a part of .
  • - a variety of online Spanish and multilingual dictionaries.
  • - presents the museum's collection with explanatory text for each work.
  • - A Yahoo-type web classification and search engine for Mexico.
  • : University of Texas -- Latin American Network Information Center.
  • Find out about , the Spanish language learning Moo, now at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
  • has a collection of Spanish language links.
  • is a Spanish language cinema reference.