The REALIA Project publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures. Faculty and students at all levels are encouraged to contribute materials to our searchable, online database. The focus of the REALIA Project is realia: Materials which convey the everyday life of different cultures.

REALIA News

April 2008: The REALIA project has moved to new servers at Oberlin College Library.
April 2007: Two new REALIA Chief Editors have joined the project. We welcome Ingrid Chafee (Morehouse College), Chief Editor for French collections, and Wenxian Zhang (Rollins College), Chief Editor for Chinese collections, to their new roles in the project.
January 2007: The REALIA Project announces an Internship program for students. Students and faculty can consult the program details for more information.
March 2006: REALIA was featured at a NITLE conference entitled Collaborative and Technology-Assisted Approaches to Teaching Arabic. Rachid Aadnani of Wellesley College, the chief editor for REALIA's Arabic collection, talked about the uses of digital images in teaching and the work of the REALIA project to assemble digital resources to address this need.

Recent Addition to the Collection

Calle de Jorge Manrique leading to the church in El Toboso, a modern-day view of a location from CervantesDon Quixote
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