World Languages Collection
The library’s adult world languages collection is located on the second floor of the library in the Reference Department. This collection features Polish, Spanish, and a growing collection of Ukrainian language titles. Many more world-language titles are available through interlibrary loan. Please ask staff for more information.
Our collection of world language magazines includes Pani (Polish), Twoj Styl (Polish), and Paris Match (French). These publications can be found in the Quiet Reading Room with the English language magazines on the second floor. Older editions may be checked out for three weeks. The current issues are non-circulating. The library also subscribes to the Polish newspaper Dziennik Zwiazkowy.
Paris Match is also available digitally in Overdrive/Libby, along with hundreds of other magazines from around the world.
Learn A World Language
Free with your Park Ridge Library card and Mango Languages!
Mango Languages provides visual and audio slideshow lessons to teach grammar, vocabulary, and important phrases. Mango also provides ESL lessons for native speakers of several languages. Try our tutorial to help you get started! There is also an app available!
Languages:
Arabic (Egyptian)
Arabic (Iraqi)
Arabic (Levantine)
Arabic (MSA)
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bengali
Chaldean Aramaic
Cherokee
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari
Dutch
Dzongkha
English (ESL)
English, Shakespearean
Filipino, Tagalog
Finnish
French
French (Canadian)
German
Greek (Modern)
Greek (Ancient)
Greek (Koine)
Haitian Creole
Hawaiian
Hebrew (Modern)
Hebrew (Biblical)
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kazakh
Korean
Latin
Malay
Malayalam
Norwegian
Pashto
Persian, Farsi
Pirate
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Potawatomi
Punjabi, Pakistani
Romanian
Russian
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Shanghainese
Slovak
Spanish (Castilian)
Spanish (Latin America)
Swahili
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Tuvan
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Yiddish
ESL:
Arabic (Egyptian)
Arabic (MSA)
Armenian
Bengali
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Mandarin)
French
German
Greek
Haitian Creole
Hmong
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Somali
Spanish (Latin America)
Turkish
Vietnamese
