eLanguages
In this section you can learn another language online in your own time, or improve your English if it is not your first language. You can also search for information, or read children's books, in other languages.
General Resources
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Transparent Language Online*
Heading overseas and want to learn a bit of the local language before you go? Or perhaps English is your second language and you wish to improve it? Over 90 foreign language and 15 English as a Second Language (ESL) courses to choose from.
Apps
iPhone, iPod touch & iPad / Android |
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International Children's Digital Library
Need access to children's books written in languages other than English? The International Children's Digital Library has a growing collection of titles covering various languages and is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars. |
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MyLanguage
If you wish to search for information in a language other than English, try MyLanguage. MyLanguage provides access to search engines, web directories and news in over 60 languages. |
* Available to library members
Transparent Language Online
Heading overseas and want to learn a bit of the local language before you go? Or perhaps English is your second language and you want to improve?
Transparent Language Online is a powerful and personalised online language learning system available to library members. It locks foreign language words and phrases into your memory so that you can recall them perfectly and remember them forever.
Available language courses
Afrikaans, Albanian, Altai, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belorussian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Chinese(Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Mirandese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajiki, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Uzbek (Latin), Vietnamese, Welsh and Zulu.
Available English as a Second Language (ESL) courses
English for — Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese speakers.
International Children's Digital Library
Language barriers have never been more pronounced. As families move from Kenya to Finland or Brazil to Mexico or Vietnam to California, books published in their native country or in their first language often must be left behind. In their new homelands, it may be difficult, if not impossible, to find children's books from their cultures and in their mother tongue. Parents have little access to the books and stories from their youth to pass on to the next generation. Many children must grow up without knowledge of their family's heritage and first language.
A fundamental principle of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation is that children and their families deserve to have access to the books of their culture, as well as the majority culture, regardless of where they live. Their goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community.
MyLanguage
As a way of enriching Australia's linguistic and cultural cyberspace, seven State and Territory Libraries created this portal in 2005 to enable people to search and find information on the internet in over 65 languages. Since then My Language has provided access to over six-million information links:
- search engines
- web directories
- government websites
- digital library projects
- syndicated news headlines