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Farmington Community Library
Literacy Services & Resources
Cynthia Simpson, Selector Librarian
Web Sites for Multiple Languages
BBC Languages supports a variety of languages, including English, through video clips, audio and exercises.
Live Mocha offers lessons and support for 10 languages in a social networking environment. Lessons are structured with grammar, reading, listening and comprehension sections.
Word2Word Language Resources offers a comprehensive list of language resources available on the Web. The Free Online Language Courses section compiles a list of sites for over 110 languages.
Language Information & Resources
EveryTongue.com: Recordings and texts in over 2,000 languages .
iLoveLanguages: A great guide to languages on the Web, with more than 2,400 links.
The home page provides multiple links to Web sites for learning languages and cultures.
A way to find local language groups in the area. Type "language" into the "Find Meetup Groups" search bar and a listing of local language groups will appear.
This site contains details of most alphabets and other writing systems currently in use, as well as quite a few ancient and invented ones. It also includes information about some of the languages written with those writing systems, multilingual texts, tips on learning languages, a book store, some useful phrases in many different languages, and a ever-growing collection of links to language-related resources.
A University of Iowa project. This site contains animations of the phonetic sounds of English, German and Spanish.
The main purpose of the UniLang Community is to provide an online site where people interested in languages can unite, openly discuss, and find resources related to language(s), linguistics and translations.
Resources avaiable at our Library
FCL International Language Collection
The International Language Collection offers titles in foreign languages for fluent readers.
The World Cinema Collection at the Main Library
The World Cinema Collection contains subtitled movies in 35 languages that circulate for one week, no renewals. A portion of the collection is interfiled with other titles in the Foreign Language Film section of our Films on DVD at the Main Library, and is part of a rotating collection shared with other local libraries. Read the World Cinema Collection FAQs, or browse a complete listing of titles (Please note that the library location for titles is subject to change as the collection rotate). Ask at the Information Desk for more details.
The 400's. . . .
Audiobooks—On CD and Cassette Farsi, French, German, Lithuanian and many other languages are available, starting at 428.2.
Books—Dictionaries, 501 Verbs titles, travel phrase books, and language learners with audio support are available in numerous languages including Spanish, Italian, Latin and Russian, beginning at 428.2.
eBooks
FCL International Language Collection
Offered online through NetLibrary, the PimsleurLanguage Program is available in downloadable audiobook format and offers over forty languages.
Over 200 full-color picture books online, with sentences highlighted as text is read. In additional to English language titles, numerous French and Spanish language stories are available. Also available are some titles in Chinese, Russian and Italian.
 Last modified on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2008 16:02:02 EDT
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