Why Critical Languages Series Online?

The University of Arizona Critical Languages Series Online offers the following languages:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Cantonese
• Kazakh
  
• Korean
• Kurdish (Kurmanji)
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

You get a suite of lessons, comprehensive multimedia integration, grammar and cultural notes, and exercises that provide the equivalent of a full year college course's textbook, workbook, plus audio and video.

Many of these languages do not have an equivalent available elsewhere. Critical Languages Series Online is engaging, user-friendly, and affordable.

Acclaimed course design

Based on the well-reviewed Critical Languages Series CD/DVD-ROM courseware, these peer-reviewed, extensively tested materials are used in classrooms and homes around the world. The updated online version of each course contains:

• About 20 units, centered around dialogues and readings
  
  • Click on any word or sentence in each unit to hear it spoken in either the target language or English
    
  • Watch a video of the entire unit to see and hear the natural flow of the language
    
• Hundreds of context-relevant footnotes for in-depth info on cultural and grammatical points
• Thousands of audio recordings
• Between 30-70 minutes of video featuring native speakers
• Exercises to test your knowledge and comprehension

New features

• Mobile lessons that feature full-lesson audio
  • Load them onto your MP3 player and you can learn wherever you go!
    
• Detailed records of your exercise attempts
  
• Connect with other users on each course's forums
• Use it on any computer with a high-speed internet connection, whether you have Windows, Mac, or Linux. See system requirements.
  

Friendly support

Because Critical Languages Series Online is so easy to use, we may never get to help you out. But we're always just an email away if you need it.