If you’d like to learn a foreign language you’ve come to the right place! Perhaps you have always wanted to learn a specific language related to your family heritage or to prepare for a long-awaited bucket list trip? Or, maybe you want to communicate better with others in our diverse community? The Library has an array of language learning resources from complete courses (including an online program) to phrasebooks for travelers, visual dictionaries, and bilingual short stories. We have what you need to get started on your foreign language learning or ESL path. We even have Sign Language learning resources and instructional materials to assist teachers of ESL/EFL.
This new LibGuide highlights resources for each of the top 6 most popular languages to learn (Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Italian, and Korean), as well as the most commonly spoken foreign languages in the Davenport Area and Quad Cities Region which includes some crossover (Spanish, Vietnamese, German, French, and Chinese). ESL and Sign Language resources are also in this LibGuide, along with a page of Other Foreign Language resources and Community Resources.
