Language Learning Resources

Textbook Reserve

There are first and second year textbooks/workbooks/audio and video on reserve at the Language Resource Center (LRC) for use in the main center. Students can photocopy sections or exercises for their use.

Language Learning Programs

The LRC also subscribes to online language learning tools: from subtitled video shorts (Yabla), to Mango Languages (think Rosetta Stone or Duolingo), to international television with SCOLA. 

The following links will take you to language-specific research guides, as well as resources, from the University of Michigan Library system. These materials are useful for both graduate and undergraduate level language research and are updated regularly.

French

• French Languages and Literatures
• French History
• Francophone Canada
• African Studies

Italian

• Italian Language and Literature

Portuguese

• Brazilian Studies
• Lusophone Africa
  
• Iberian Studies
  

Spanish

• Spanish Language and Literature
• Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Iberian Studies

For help with your research, feel free to contact Barbara Alvarez. RLL's Librarian. 

View Barbara's profile.

Additional UM Library Collections

The following links will take you to additional library research collections on the UM campus that are germane to romance languages and literatures, and offer specialized reference services for researchers interested in using materials from their collections.

• Reference Library
• Map Library
• Special Collections
• Clements Library
• Bentley Historical Library
• MIRLYN Catalog
  

Video Collection

The LRC has thousands of videos available to watch in the main center. View their online catalog. 

Free Reading Collection

Students faculty and staff can check out the items from the LRC print collection, including a collection of graphic novels in French, Spanish and Italian, for loans up to 2 weeks at a time.

Newspapers

The Library subscribes to newspapers from around the world, which are available online at Library PressDisplay.

The Spanish Club and Le Comité Francophone offer free drop-in tutoring at the Language Resource Center (located on the lower level of North Quad). You can find the current hours for free French and Spanish peer tutoring on the RLL language club page.

The Language Resource Center also hosts a database of tutors and conversation partners on their website. They also have a section dedicated to language translation.

The individuals listed below are instructors in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department.

Disclaimer: The department of Romance Languages and Literatures assumes no responsibility for the services of those who, at their own request, are listed here, but serves solely as a source of information.

French

Juliette Moutinou - Native French speaker from France. Instructor of French in Romance Languages & Literatures Department for over 10 years, teaching courses 101, 103, 231, and 232. Experience tutoring at all levels. M.A. in English, Spanish, and American History.

Tutoring - All levels. $80/per hour
Translating - $80/hour for professionals, $75/hour for students
Other - Birth certificate and driver licence translation $50
Home: (734) 330-0607
Email: juliette@umich.edu

Italian

Guglielmo Audiberti - Italian native speaker with Italian degree in foreign languages, with long experience in Italy and Usa, lecturer II at University of Michigan from 2001.
Tutoring, translating, private Italian lessons - All Levels. $20-25 per hour
Phone: (734) 330-5442
Email: audigugu@umich.edu

Spanish

Mariela De La Torre - Native Spanish speaker from Lima, Peru. Instructor of Spanish in Romance Languages & Literatures Department at The University of Michigan since 2005. M.A. in Spanish. Experience teaching Spanish 232, 231, and 230 courses at UM. Instructor of Spanish at the Foreign Language Department at the University of Toledo, taught Spanish 2140, 1120, and 1110. I can tutor all levels, beginner through advanced.
Tutoring - All levels. $40 per hr.
Email: dltorre@umich.edu

Kathleen Forrester - Professional and experienced Spanish language instructor and tutor. All levels welcome. $50 per hour.
Please contact me at: forrestk@umich.edu

Rashmi Rama - I am a Spanish lecturer in the Romance Language Department since 2005. I have also taught Spanish in other institutions in Michigan and California for several years. I have lived in Spain and taught English in México and in Puerto Rico.
Tutoring - Levels: 101 and above. Please contact for rates.
Email: rashrama@umich.edu