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With digital downloads – your public library is open 24/7! The San Antonio Public Library offers two ways to download digital media content: OverDrive and NetLibrary. You can access language audio books for free using your San Antonio Public Library Card.
- OverDrive downloadable languages
Use the keyword search "Foreign Language Study" to find languages you would like to learn. - NetLibrary downloadable languages Find downloadable audio books by using a keyword search "learning languages"
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Welcome to Learning Languages
You want to learn a new language?
Check out the guide to find resources such as books, audio visual materials available at SAPL. You can also find local resources and web sites that teach and provide links to variety of languages of different countries with this guide.
Favorite Books
Spanish for gringos: level 1: shortcuts, tips, and secrets to successful learning - by C. Harvey
Call Number: 468.2421 HARVEY
This popular, informal self-instruction book offers a quick and easy way to pick up informal, practical Spanish, designed for English-speakers who are in regular contact with Hispanics and need to communicate with them for both work and social situations.
30 days to great French - by Jenny Barriol
Call Number: 448.2421 BARRIOL
30 Days to Great French is a simple and fun course that will enhance your language skills in just weeks! It offers straightforward and effective teaching methods to understand and speak French.
Right, wrong and risky: a dictionary of today's American English Usage - by Mark Davidson
Call Number: 423.1 Davidson
The book offers simple, direct answers to questions about word choice, spelling, grammar, and punctuation in an alphabetical order. The book also warns the reader about risky words and the many risky situations about what is and not acceptable in standard american English.
Japanese Step by Step: an innovative apporach to sepaking and reading Japanese - by Gene Nishi
Call Number: 495.6 NISHI
The book offers an unique study method of teaching on how to construct Japanese sentences, from the simplest to the most complex, using an easy-to-follow, step-by-step method for beginning learners of Japanese and for intermediate students.
Beginner's Hindi script - Rupert Snell
Call Number: 491.438 SNELL
The book offers a step-by-step introduction to reading and writing in a new language as well as tips and practice exercises. This book is methodical, thorough, and very effective and could be able to learn writing system very fast.
Audiovisuals
- Irish. The short course - by Pimsleur, Paul
Call Number: CD 491.62834 PIMSLEUR - ESL teaching (sound recording) - by Conn Guilford
Call Number: CASSETTE 428.24 ESL - Living language German (Videorecording): an introduction to essential conversational German
Call Number: VIDEO 438.3421 BASIC - Basic Spanish & Portuguese by DVD (videorecording)
Call Number: DVD 468.3421 BASIC
Websites
- BBC Languages– News and Audio in 33 LanguagesLearn French, Spanish, German, Italian and other new languages. The site includes includes audio magazines as well.
- Languages on the WebThis site provides you with the best language related links and will offer in time innovative courses in many languages through a unique method.
- Dictionaries by LanguageThe site provides meanings and information on different languages with links to related websites.
- Free Language Exchange CommunityLearn a new language, exchange with native speakers to improve your language skills. If you are fond of foreign languages, student, employee of an international company, globe traveller or simply eager to discover new culture using this site.
- Multi Language ResourcesThe website offers a compilation of the weblinks that offers information on new languages learning created by the San Antonio Public Library.
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Local Resources
Following are some of the local resources in San Antonio that provides lessons to learning new languages.
- ELS Language Schools4301 Broadway St
San Antonio, TX 78209-6318
(210) 283-5077 - International Language Center at San Antonio110 Gallery Circle
San Antonio, TX 78258
(210)342-2035
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