Resources in community languages

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Community languages in Darebin

The City of Darebin is home to people from over 153 countries who speak 148 different languages.

Nearly one-third of our residents were born overseas, and for close to half, both parents were born outside of Australia.

We offer a range of community language materials at all of our library branches and online. Our physical and digital collections of community language resources are one of the ways we meet the needs of our diverse community and give everyone the opportunity to learn and grow.

Community language resources in our branches

We have a range of fiction, non-fiction, CDs, DVDs, board books, magazines and talking books for children and adults at each of our branches in the following community languages:

  • Arabic
  • Chinese
  • Greek
  • Hindi (magazines & DVDs only)
  • Italian
  • Macedonian
  • Punjabi
  • Spanish
  • Vietnamese

Spanish books and magazines are now available! You can borrow popular fiction, including Spanish and South American authors. Works in translation, non-fiction and children’s books in Spanish. Magazines are also available in both physical and digital formats.

We also have bilingual picture books in a range of languages at each branch, with a Somali children's book collection in Reservoir.

Community language resources in our digital library

Improve your English skills or learn another language with our range of digital language resources.

Borrow Box

Our Borrow Box collection has a huge collection of books and other resources for adults and children in Darebin’s community languages.

To find resources in a particular language, click the relevant link below.

Arabic

Chinese

French

German

Greek

Hindi

Italian

Spanish

Vietnamese

Press Reader 

Access Press Reader for newspapers and magazines in more than 60 languages.

Kanopy

Kanopy Film Streaming offers films and documentaries in a variety of community languages.

Improve your English-speaking skills

Come along to our weekly Conversation Café. To find out more, check out our events calendar. 

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