Patron browsing the Punjabi collection @ Tarneit

Discover our language collections during Cultural Diversity Week - find books, DVDs, magazines, ebooks, bilingual picture books and language learning resources at your library.

It you would like to borrow items in a different community language, please make a suggestion.

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Shelves of books labelled Community Languages

 

Books and DVDs

Indian Magazines

  • Ananda Vikatan (Tamil): held at Tarneit
  • Chitralekha (Gujarati): held at Point Cook and Tarneit 
  • Femina: held at Hoppers Crossing and Point Cook 
  • Filmfare: held at Point Cook 
  • Grehalakshmi (Malayalam): held at Tarneit
  • India Today (English edition):held at Point Cook and Tarneit 
  • Nikkian Karumbalan (Punjabi): held at Tarneit
  • Punjabi Screen (Punjabi):held at Tarneit
  • Sarita (Hindi):held at Point Cook, Tarneit and Manor Lakes 
  • Vanitha (Malayalam): held at Tarneit
  • Woman's era: held at Tarneit

Find these on the catalogue here

Chinese Magazines

  • 贝太厨房 Betty's kitchen = Bei tai chu fang: held at Point Cook
  • 知音海外 Bosom Friend = Zhi Yin: held at Point Cook
  • 家庭Family = Jia ting: held at Hoppers Crossing and Point Cook
  • 收获 Harvest = Shou huo: held at Point Cook
  • 女友家园 Love = Nu you. Jia yuan ban: held at Point Cook and Tarneit
  • 华夏地理 National Geographic (Chinese edition): held at Point Cook
  • 瑞丽 Ruili = Rayli: Held at Point Cook and Tarneit

Find these on the catalogue here

A variety of bilingual picture books

Bilingual Picture Books  

Bilingual Picture Books are held in a variety of languages at all branches. Discover stories in these languages:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages 

Afrikaans | Arabic | Bengali | Burmese 

Cantonese | Chinese | Dari | Farsi | French | Greek 

Gujarati | Hindi | Italian | Japanese | Karen | Korean 

Malayalam | Mandarin | Maori | Punjabi | Russian 

Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Tamil | Urdu | Vietnamese

eLibrary Collections

Hindi and Chinese collections on Borrowbox

 

Borrowbox

Chinese collection

Hindi collection

You can borrow these items through BorrowBox - use your library card and password to check them out on your phone or computer. See our eLibrary page for more about BorrowBox.

 

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LOTE4Kids

LOTE4Kids offers over 2000 digital picture books in over 50 languages, with new books being added all the time. Read yourself or listen and read along to the audio to enjoy stories in your language, or learn a new language. Languages include Auslan, and more languages coming soon!

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Many Languages - One App

 

PressReader

PressReader is a subscription service provided by Wyndham City Libraries that gives you access to over 5000 newspapers and magazines from around the world on your PC/tablet/phone. Newspapers and magazines are available in more than 60 languages from 100 countries! Access PressReader with your library card number and PIN, or in the library using our hotspot.

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Learning Resources

Don’t speak a language other than English? Why not learn one with our free Transparent Languages resource or one of the many language guides in our collection.

Transparent Language

Transparent Language Online provides high quality and effective self-paced language courses in over 100 languages, English learning courses for over 30 other language speakers and a growing number of language courses for children through KidSpeak.

First time users need to create an account by clicking the sign up tab; you can then access anytime through web browser or the Transparent Languages Online app (iOS or Android).

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