Wikiotics

Wikiotics is a site for learning a foreign language.

Wikiotics hosts freely licensed, user-contributed lessons for the language acquisition community. There are instruction materials for many languages, listed below.

Everything is editable.

Each lesson and page on this site is editable on GitHub. Prior to July 2020, all lessons were built using a graphical interface here on wikiotics.org. This is where the name “wiki” comes from.

Perhaps the best way to navigate the content is by the language taught by each lesson:

Recent blog posts

WikiConference USA

June 6, 2014

This past weekend was the inaugural WikiConference USA, a New York area conference focused on all things wiki. I presented a summary of our work with PS 9 at a session on Saturday morning and was privileged to share a track with Gabriel Thullen, a Swiss computer and media teacher who helps students contribute to Wikipedia as early as 7th grade. It was wonderful to see others who are working directly in schools and, as always, I was very pleased to talk with language teachers from as far away as San Francisco and Canada.

Language exchange launch

November 19, 2013

Last night we began the second stage of the Last Language Textbook campaign at Brooklyn’s PS 9 elementary school. Fifteen parents and teachers gathered together to start a new language exchange organized around the materials that Wikiotics Fellows Claribel Sanchez and Jarrett Carter spent the summer building. I am happy to report that everything went very well and the group is scheduled to meet again on December 2nd to continue learning basic Spanish vocabulary and practice their first English/Spanish dialogues.

Learning Bilingually

August 20, 2013

This September the Last Language Textbook is coming to the Teunis Bergen PS 9 School in Brooklyn. Our Wikiotics Fellows have spent the summer building resources to help parents of the school’s bilingual education students learn along with their children. On September 8th we will be introducing these new materials to the community and showing how parents can get involved by building materials for each other, their children, and by participating in school sponsored language exchanges.