Multicultural Resources
ESL Classes
- English as a Second Language classes meet Tuesdays at 6:30:00 PM - 9:00:00 PM in the Lincolnwood Library's Roehri Room.
This class is free and supported by Oakton Community College's Alliance for Life Long Learning Program.
For more information contact Oakton Community College
(847) 635-1426
ESL Resources
- Activities for ESL Students
- Dave's ESL Cafe
- English as a Second Language through the World Wide Web
- ESL Lab
- Longman's ESL Dictionary
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TOEFL
Test of English as a Foreign Language.
Foreign Language Collections
- Skokie Public Library
Books in many foreign languages including Russian, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi, Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese.
- Niles Public Library
Significant collections in Russian, Polish, Spanish, Korean and Hindi.
Health & Medicine
- Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources
Information provided by by the National Library of Medicine in several different languages.
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Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages -- SPIRAL
A multi-language health information site for both physicians and patients from Tufts University's Health Sciences Library. Detailed health information in Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese.
Immigration
- U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services
Information: 800-375-5283
- U.S. Immigration Support
- Welcome to USA
New immigrants can find basic information on living in United States. There are links to Federal Government information and to organizations that serve immigrants.
Language Learning
- BBC
Audio and video courses for beginners and intermediates in 36 languages.
- LiveMocha
LiveMocha is an online language-learning community which lets you connect with foreign language partners. Beginning and intermediate lessons in French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Hindi or English are also available. This is a free language learning website but with required registration.
News, Newspapers & Magazines
- Internet Public Library; Newspapers
- Foreign Language News & Newspapers
From MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Assyrian International News Agency
- Zinda Magazine
Weekly Assyrian magazine
- News in Hindi from BBC
- News in Japanese from BBC
- News in Spanish from BBC
- News in Urdu from BBC
Other Multicultural Resources
