Languages & Literature
- LearningExpress Library This link opens in a new window
LearningExpress Library features online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books to help patrons of all ages. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, college and grad school entrance test prep, GED® test prep, and more.
- Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language. Includes over 50,000 articles plus 4,200 images. Complete with a dictionary, atlas, and timelines, it's the perfect resource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.
- Merriam-Webster Unabridged by Britannica This link opens in a new window
Access more than 700,000 definitions, 477,000 words, 158,400 etymologies, and 119,500 quotations from well-known writers. Use the advanced search tool to gain exclusive access to recently collected citations from the Merriam-Webster citation files. Recently updated entries appear in a variety of categories, including Food & Beverage, Health & Medicine, Internet, Law, Music, and Science.
- NoveList Plus This link opens in a new window
Find new authors and titles. Including fiction and non fiction for adults, as well as picture books, children's chapter books, and young adult titles.
- Pronunciator This link opens in a new window
Pronunciator is an online language-learning service that includes 163 different languages for beginners and advanced learners, kids and adults. This includes ESL courses in 143 non-English languages. Pronunciator offers a truly personalized and customized language learning experience!
o 163 languages to learn (plus ASL and ESL)
o Localized in 143 languages
o American Sign Language course with 20,000 instructional videos
o World’s largest instructional content
o Quality human voices, translations and video
o Daily lessons and quizzes: Interactive audiovisual lessons, with quizzes, for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners each day
o COVID-19 language course: Teaches essential vocabulary for 101 languages (and in 90 home languages) relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic
o Personalized Language Courses. This innovative new approach lets patrons customize their learning experience based on their interests, their occupation (any of 60!), their learning goals, age, available time, and more. Each custom course features a bespoke PDF study guide and even personalized audio lessons. We offer personalized courses in any of 160 languages, including American Sign Language.
o Video Phrases: We've been adding hundreds of thousands of video clips so your learners can see native speakers clearly speaking each instructional phrase (including slow motion and a cool Video Comparison feature). It's the closest thing to how we actually learn language as children. Currently, 28 languages have video phrases.
o Audio lessons: Over the past year, we have expanded our collection of audio lessons to include over 11,000,000 files (600+ calendar years of audio!), making it by far the largest in the world. And each lesson is available narrated in 140 different languages.
About Languages & Lit
Language & Literature Resources
These resources are available with your library card. If you are accessing from outside the library, you will need to enter your valid library card number and PIN.
Listed resources are searchable databases and electronic resources, compiling information from newspapers, reference sources, magazines, journals, and books. Where available, limit your results to full text to read, save, or email full articles.
Pronunciator requires you to create a user account to keep track of your lanuage learning process.
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