| Foreign Languages Subject
Guide LRC@TCC
Scope: A general survey of resources on a variety of languages,
their literatures, and customs.
Call number areas to browse:
| P Philology, Linguistics |
PA Greek, Latin |
PB Modern languages, Celtic |
| PC Romance |
PC 4625 Spanish |
PC 2640 French |
| PC 1640 Italian |
PD Germanic |
PE English |
| PF West Germanic |
PF 3629 German |
PG Baltic, Slavic, Albanian |
| PG 2640 Russian |
PH Uralic, Basque |
PJ Middle East languages |
| PK Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan |
PL Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
PL 679 Japanese |
| PL 1445 Chinese |
PM Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languagese |
Library Subject Guides Specific Languages:
French Language
Russian Language
Spanish Language
ESL (English as a Second Language)
 Library
Resources (use MyTCC ID to login from off-campus)
Mango
Languages
courses
integrates components of vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and culture.
Users learn actual conversation, breaking down complex conversational
elements within an audio-visual framework that allows the user to
draw important connections between pieces of information they have
already learned.
Ethnic
Newswatch News, culture, and history from 200+ publications
of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Has both English and
Spanish interfaces.
Films
on Demand Watch videos in the World Languages of Chinese, French,
German, Japanese, and Spanish.
World
History in Context Search for information
on languages and linguistics, with available reference materials,
periodicals,
primary sources, and images.
Linguistics & Language
Behavior Abstracts Assists both generalists and specialists
in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines
concerned with the nature and use of language.
Internet Resources:
--Countries of the World
CIA
World Factbook: Field Listing-Languages A rank ordering of
languages from many nations, compiled and maintained at this Central
intelligence Agency web site.
Global
Gateway: World Culture & Resources Offers a variety of
cultural resources, including two bilingual digital libraries in
Russian (Meeting
of Frontiers) and Spanish (Spain,
the United States, and the American Frontier). Maintained by
the Library of Congress.
--Dictionaries
Yahoo!
Language Dictionaries This directory serves as a guide to online
language dictionaries from Afrikaans to Yiddish.
--Languages of the World
Ethnologue Information
on language names, codes, and families: approximately 6,800 different
languages.
iLoveLanguages A
comprehensive catalog of more than 2000 language-related Internet
resources.
The
Swahili Coast (Wonders of the African World) Cultural Close-Up:
About the Swahili Language. Hear examples of everyday phrases spoken,
and learn to recite poems in Swahili.
World
Languages (WannaLearn.com) Links to many free instruction sites
(and a few that aren't).
Yamada
Language Centers: Language Guide Maintained at the University
of Oregon, this site contains a variety of different language resources
including, fonts (Windows and Macintosh), language-related newsgroups,
and a directory of language-related mailing lists.
--Translators- convert text or entire web pages with these
services
AltaVista's
Babel Fish Translation Service Translate up to 150 words
of text or entire Web pages among nine languages
FreeTranlation.com Translate
up to 1,500 words of text or entire web pages in eight languages.
InterTran Translate
text and web pages in as many as 27 languages, including Latin.
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