- Playing Loteria
- A boy has a good time attending a fair with his grandmother. She teaches him Spanish words and phrases and he teaches her English.
Finding Non-English Materials
Stimulate your brain and learn another language or find something to read in your native language. Does the person next to you understand physics but can’t speak English? Check out the phrase website and use a sentence in his language. Want more practice in reading/listening to a second language? The library offers a variety of foreign language materials. There is a broad range of genres and formats to choose from: dictionaries, grammar books, business language, literature, picture books, instructional material (tapes, CDs), and film. Use the suggested catalog searches to find books in other languages. If you are just browsing, you can locate books for learning a language in the 400s area of both the reference and the general collection.
Suggested catalog searches
Related websites
- Free Online Language Courses
- A great variety of foreign languages offering many lessons and exercises at no charge.
- Google Books
- Includes older literature in a non-english language. Ask a librarian for assistance with this resource.
- Omniglot (foreign phrases)
- Use this site to look up a phrase in another language
- Omniglot (writing systems and languages of the world)
- Offers information on lanauages, language resources, including audio learning courses and online radio broadcast schedules.
- Pimsleur (Simon & Schuster)
- Foreign language instructional materials in audio formats in twenty-six languages, including English as a second language.
- Project Gutenberg
- Includes ebooks available for free download in several languages. Audio books also available for download in English and a few other languages.
- Super Languages
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Includes an array of links with many choices for reading, exercising and testing your knowledge in a foreign language. Loads of free learning tools, links include info about a country’s culture and customs.
- YourDictionary.com
- Covers all aspects of the English language, with links to many other language dictionaries and sites.