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Welcoming Ukrainian refugees to the library (and the community!) Posted by on Aug 22, 2024 in For Libraries, Library Success Stories

English for Ukrainian refugees in Transparent Language Online

But first, coffee. šŸµ Thatā€™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…

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Florida Library Teaches ASL Classes with Transparent Language Online Posted by on Jul 8, 2024 in For Libraries, Library Success Stories

ASL classes at Seminole County Public Library with Transparent Language Online

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: šŸ‘‰ fingerspelling šŸ‘‰…

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šŸ„‡ Compete with language learners around the world Posted by on Jul 1, 2024 in For Libraries

Transparent Language Online contest

Update: the winners are in! Congratulations to… šŸ„‡ Felix from Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in North Carolina, who spent more than 60 hours learning Chinese! šŸ„ˆ Lucy from Bay City Public Library in Texas, who completed 31 Japanese lessons! šŸ„‰ Mereke from Fort Bend County Library in Texas, who learned 353 new words in English!…

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Support English Language Learners at Your Library (Free Guide) Posted by 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…

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Learn a language offline with the Transparent Language Online app Posted by on Jun 17, 2024 in For Educators, For Learners, For Libraries

Itā€™s 2024. Surely everyone learning a language with us has home internet, right? Unfortunately, no. Tens of millions of US households donā€™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…

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9x Platinum at the Modern Library Awards Posted by on Jan 12, 2024 in Company News, For Libraries

The word of the day is nonuple. You know double, triple, quadruple. But when you 9x something, itā€™s nonuple. Weā€™re so excited to announce Transparent Language Online is now a NONUPLE Modern Library Awards Platinum Award winner! TheĀ Modern Library AwardsĀ (MLAs) are like the Oscars, but better because the voters are librarians evaluating the products they…

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New: Beginner ASL Course Expanded Posted by on May 22, 2023 in For Learners, For Libraries, Learning Material Updates

8 new units. 242 new signs. 33 more hours of American Sign Language instruction. The first 8 units of our ASL course were released last September. In only 4 months, American Sign Language had already entered the top 10 most learned languages in Transparent Language Online in 2022! So, we teamed up with Signing Savvy…

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