Instructional Tools

Visitors to our site are often looking for materials to use to teach themselves or their students about the languages and cultures of our region. CEERES is constantly seeking sources of vetted material that can be used in classrooms, for international cultural events, for research, or simply for personal knowledge. Our current list of instructional tools includes - among other things - online dictionaries, reference grammars, authentic materials in target languages, lesson plans, and web-based courses and curricula.

  • Gateway to the Caucasus

    • Developed by CEERES at the University of Chicago, this website is designed as a portal for a wide range of scholarly resources focused on the Caucasus...


  • Crescat: A Guide to Research and Teaching about Europe

    • Crescat is a guide to Europe and the European Community for academics and researchers in the humanities and social sciences created by the University of Chicago Center in Paris. The site includes a comprehensive index to online libraries and archives, primary sources, secondary sources, and teaching resources focused on Europe.


  • Central Asian Language Learning Materials at CeLCAR

    • The Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region at Indiana University [CeLCAR] has developed online, web-based reading and listening materials for Central Asian languages. Additional mult-media materials are also available for purchase. [more]


  • UCLA Language Materials Project
    • 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), containing in-depth ethnographic information about each language. Languages from the CEERES region include: Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buriat, Chechen, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Georgian, Greek (Modern), Hungarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Kurdish, Latvian,Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Yakut ... [more]


  • Slavic and East European Language Resource Center (SEELRC)

    • The mission of the SEELRC is to improve the national capacity to teach and learn Slavic and East European languages by developing teaching and assessment materials as well as by supporting research and a variety of activities, including undergraduate and graduate education and exchange programs, conferences, seminars, and public outreach programs. This website is a clearinghouse for instructional materials for teachers and students of the languages of the world region... [more]


  • The Stanford Program on International and Cross-cultural Education (SPICE)

    • Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) has supports efforts to internationalize elementary and secondary school curricula by linking the research and teaching at Stanford University to the schools through the production of high-quality curriculum materials on international and cross-cultural topics, aimed at K-14 programs... [more]


  • Outreach World

    • Outreach World is a growing online community of educators dedicated to showcasing the achievements of its members and strengthening vital links across the education spectrum, and between the United States and the world. On this site, one may download interdisciplinary, cross-regional and standard-specific units, lessons and instructional aids designed by teachers and scholars and tested by practicing precollegiate teachers affiliated with the National Resource Center network... [more]


  • LanguageCourse.net

    • LanguageCourse.net is an online resource with information on various languages spoken widely throughout Europe... [more]


  • Russian Word of the Day

    • This blog is aimed at first- and second-year students of Russian, although more advanced learners may also enjoy it... [more]


  • Russian Online Russian Grammatical Dictionary

    • This site can be of use to Russian learners at all levels... [more]


  • Macedonian Language E-Learning Center

    • The Macedonian Language E-Learning Center is an online non-profit organization dedicated to Macedonian language learning and cultural understanding world-wide. Here you will find free and subscription-based online resources for learning the Macedonian language and learning about Macedonian culture.


  • Foreign Service Institute (FSI) Language Courses

    • Archived Foreign Service Institute language courses and materials (up to 1989) are now available online and promise to be a valuable resource to both language students and historians alike. CEERES-related languages include: Czech, Hungarian, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian. PDF texts and audio are available.


  • Online Foreign Language Teaching Methods Materials

    • The Texas Language Technology Center (TLTC) under the direction of Prof. Carl Blyth is pleased to announce the launch of this free and open online resource for foreign language teachers. The goal of the online resource is teacher professional development, with a special focus on FL methods. The site is based on actual methods courses taught at UT-Austin and includes over 13 hours of classroom videos.



  • Russian Avant-Garde Gallery

    • The Russian Avant-Garde Gallery covers the first half of the twentieth century. It groups the artists by movement and provides basic information about each movement and artist. The site is constantly under construction and expansion, but in general it is dependable and has good images.

    ***CEERES and The University of Chicago do not explicitly endorse any of the resources listed above.