Welcoming Ukrainian refugees to the library (and the community!) Posted by meaghan on Aug 22, 2024 in For Libraries, Library Success Stories
But first, coffee. 🍵 That’s the approach one UK library took when supporting dozens of Ukrainian refugees resettling in their community. Libraries are on the front lines of supporting immigrants and refugees. Which in the UK is more than 17% of the population as of 2021. Libraries are responding with a slew of creative literacy…
Advocating for More Voices Posted by Transparent Language on Aug 5, 2024 in Company News, For Learners
What does it mean to be a language advocate? What are we even advocating for? The best way I’ve heard it put: “more voices.” More voices. That’s what we need to celebrate and increase multilingualism. Our languages are foundational to our identities. When one dies (which happens at a rate of one language every two…
Close Your Rings, Learn a Language Posted by meaghan on Jul 10, 2024 in For Learners, Learning Feature Updates
What are you lookin’ at? Oh, the new learner portal design in Transparent Language Online!? Us too. 😍 Goodbye cloud background (IYKYK). Hello clean new dashboard. The new look reduces distractions. So learners can focus on what matters most. ⭕ Completing your next lesson. ⭕ Meeting your daily goal. ⭕ Reviewing regularly. It’s like closing the…
Florida Library Teaches ASL Classes with Transparent Language Online Posted by meaghan on Jul 8, 2024 in For Libraries, Library Success Stories
You can probably guess the languages our library patrons learn most: English, Spanish, French. But recently… ASL! Since we added American Sign Language to Transparent Language Online for Libraries, it’s ranked in the top 5 most learned languages (of 130 languages!) nearly every month. The 60-hour ASL course covers all the basics: 👉 fingerspelling 👉…
🥇 Compete with language learners around the world Posted by meaghan on Jul 1, 2024 in For Libraries
Update: the winners are in! Congratulations to… 🥇 Felix from Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in North Carolina, who spent more than 60 hours learning Chinese! 🥈 Lucy from Bay City Public Library in Texas, who completed 31 Japanese lessons! 🥉 Mereke from Fort Bend County Library in Texas, who learned 353 new words in English!…
Support English Language Learners at Your Library (Free Guide) Posted by meaghan on Jun 24, 2024 in For Libraries
Public libraries are on the front lines of helping the tens of millions of immigrants and refugees survive and thrive in their new homes. The foreign-born population accounts for 14%, 17%, and 23% of the populations of the US, UK, and Canada respectively. And they all share the same struggle: learning English. In the last…
Learn a language offline with the Transparent Language Online app Posted by meaghan on Jun 17, 2024 in For Educators, For Learners, For Libraries
It’s 2024. Surely everyone learning a language with us has home internet, right? Unfortunately, no. Tens of millions of US households don’t have internet. And potentially more soon. Congressional funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program ran out on May 31. The program provided a home internet subsidy to more than 23 million low-income households. If…