{"id":4697,"date":"2016-08-31T02:45:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T06:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2020-10-01T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:51:43","slug":"all-you-need-to-learn-a-language-is-your-library-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2016\/08\/31\/all-you-need-to-learn-a-language-is-your-library-card\/","title":{"rendered":"All You Need to Learn a Language is Your Library Card (Plus a Photo Contest!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year\u2014September is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovelibraries.org\/library-card\">Library Card Sign-up Month<\/a>!<\/strong> \u00a0The American Library Association and libraries around the country remind parents that \u201ca library card is the most important school supply of all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/transparentlanguage\/\" aria-label=\"FullSizeRender 768x1024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4698 aligncenter\"  alt=\"FullSizeRender\" width=\"513\" height=\"684\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-768x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-263x350.jpg 263w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, community members of all ages can benefit from a library card\u2014especially if they are learning a language! Did you know hundreds of libraries around the world offer free accounts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/libraries\/\">Transparent Language Online<\/a>? All you need to sign up is a library card.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We invite you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/libraries\/find-transparent-language-online.html\">find Transparent Language Online at a nearby library<\/a>* and start learning a language with us. Share a picture of what you\u2019re learning in Transparent Language Online and you could win a $150 Amazon gift card. Best of all, if you\u2019re the lucky winner, we\u2019ll also give a $150 Amazon gift card to your library!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Want to participate in the contest? We knew you would! All you need to do is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign up for a Transparent Language Online account at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/libraries\/find-transparent-language-online.html\">your local, participating library<\/a>* (or sign in to your existing library account!)<\/li>\n<li>Take a picture of yourself learning with Transparent Language Online\u2014anytime, anywhere. <em>The front of your library card must be visible somewhere in the image \u2013 please don\u2019t include your library barcode number. (Can\u2019t find your card? Take a picture with your library\u2019s sign instead.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Share the image with us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/transparentlanguage\/\">Instagram<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TLILanguages\">Twitter<\/a> using the hashtag #transparentlibrary.<\/strong> <em>(Make sure your account is public and note that we may share or repost your images to our own accounts.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Learn and share a new photo with us up to once per day through the entire month of September.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The contest ends on September 30, 2016. We will randomly select one image and award the photographer (and their library!) the gift cards by October 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, where will your language learning take you this month? (We secretly hope to see some dreamy pictures of the beach, parks, and even your library!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0*This contest is only open to registered patrons of US libraries which have an active subscription to Transparent Language Online.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/libraries\/find-transparent-language-online.html\">Click here<\/a> to search for a participating library near you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"263\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-263x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-263x350.jpg 263w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><p>It\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year\u2014September is Library Card Sign-up Month! \u00a0The American Library Association and libraries around the country remind parents that \u201ca library card is the most important school supply of all.\u201d Of course, community members of all ages can benefit from a library card\u2014especially if they are learning a language!&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2016\/08\/31\/all-you-need-to-learn-a-language-is-your-library-card\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[543990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-libraries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}