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Complete language courses for Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, and Spanish (Latin America), plus complete ESL courses for Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Polish speakers. Also includes basic language courses in 13 additional languages and 11 additional ESL languages. Works on both PCs and Macs. Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
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OverDrive Audiobooks and eBooks (Digital Media Catalog) (Home Access Only) |
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Download titles in OverDrive audiobook or eBook format. Please note: You will need to download additional software the first time you borrow an OverDrive title. OverDrive will prompt you to download the necessary software after you check out a title. For more information, see the Quick Start Guide under "Getting Started" on the OverDrive page.
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Learn to speak Spanish, Latin American Spanish, English (ESL), French, German, Dutch or Italian. This interactive web-based language learning program features speech recognition and self-assessment, as well as cultural activities. Includes separate courses for everyday language and business language. TELL ME MORE requires a Microsoft Operating System and Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Netscape and other browsers are not supported at this time. This database will not work with Apple computers. Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323. For more information, click here.
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| Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection | |
A collection of links for foreign language lesson podcasts.
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| Gate2Home Virtual Keyboard | |
A multilingual keyboard emulator, Gate2Home gives users instant access to the keyboards of sixty-five languages. Languages including all major East and South Asian languages, as well as Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Roman, and Cyrillic key sets with various diacritics.
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| Livemocha | |
Livemocha is the world's largest online community for language learners, with free lessons and a global community to help you learn a new language.
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| Yahoo! Babel Fish Translation | |
With Yahoo! Babel Fish, you can translate passages of text (up to 150 words) or entire Web pages among 12 languages.
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| yourDictionary.com | |
Dictionaries, grammars, and other resources for hundreds of different languages.
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