Multicultural Resources

ESL Classes

English as a Second Language classes meet Tuesdays at 6:30:00 PM - 9:00:00 PM in the Lincolnwood Library's Roehri Room.
This class is free and supported by Oakton Community College's Alliance for Life Long Learning Program.
For more information contact Oakton Community College
(847) 635-1426.

Mango Languages
Mango is an online language learning system offering English as Second Language courses as well as foreign languages for English speakers. ESL are available for speakers of the following languages: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and Polish.
Best used with the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Outside the Library, this resource is only available to Lincolnwood Library card holders.

Skokie Public Library
Books in many foreign languages including Russian, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi, Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese.
Niles Public Library
Significant collections in Russian, Polish, Spanish, Korean and Hindi.

Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources
Information provided by by the National Library of Medicine in several different languages.
Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages -- SPIRAL
A multi-language health information site for both physicians and patients from Tufts University's Health Sciences Library. Detailed health information in Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Information: 800-375-5283
U.S. Immigration Support
Welcome to USA
New immigrants can find basic information on living in United States. There are links to Federal Government information and to organizations that serve immigrants.