Multicultural Services

Through the State Library of NSW, we are able to loan a box of books in one of 43 different community languages. You can request a total of 10, 20, or 30 books per box for a period of 3 or 6 months. By default we request boxes of 20 books for 3 months.

Books are available in Adult and Junior in a variety of genres and subjects. This is a FREE service.

Available languages are:

Arabic

Bengali

Bulgarian

Burmese

Chinese

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Macedonian

Maltese

Nepalese

Persian/Farsi

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi

Russian

Serbian

Sinhalese

Slovak

Spanish

Swedish

Tagalog

Tamil

Telugu

Thai

Tibetan

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

Vietnamese

Please see library staff for more information. 

The State Library of NSW provides a digital training program designed to help seniors get connected. The videos are available in Hindi, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin and English. 

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Mango is the fast, easy, and most effective way to learn to speak a foreign language. It's online language learning system that teaches real conversation for practical communication. Learning English? Mango also includes English lessons for speakers of Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), French, Italian, Vietnamese and more. Need help? Watch our Mango Languages tutorial here 

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The Department of Education NSW provides resources to support teach and learning English as an additional language or dialect.