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Subject Guide - World Languages and Ethnic Studies
Compiled by Paul Jackson, World Languages and Ethnic Studies Librarian
Liaison. Updated 2007.
Selected Reference Books
American Sign Language
REF HV 2474 .H655 1994 Comprehensive Reference Manual for Signers
and Interpreters, 4th ed.
REF HV 2475 .B87 1995 The Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing,
3rd rev. & expanded ed.
REF HV 2475 .S77 1998 American Sign Language, unabridged ed.
Arabic
REF PJ 6640 .W572 1984 English-Arabic and Arabic-English Dictionary
REF PJ 6640 O93 1978 The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current
Usage
French
REF PC 2271 .R4 E87 1965 Essential French Grammar
REF PC 2105 .R64 1992 The Oxford Guide to the French Language
REF PC 2640 .O93 1995 The Concise Oxford Hachette French Dictionary:
French-English/English-French
German
REF PF 3111 .S8 E87 1961 Essential German Grammar
REF PF 3640 .C69 1991 The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary:
English-German/German-English
REF PF 3640 .C64 1999 Collins German-English/English-German Dictionary,
Unabridged, 4th ed.
Italian
REF PC 1111 .R3 E87 1963 Essential Italian Grammar
REF PC 1640 .C33 1967 Cassell’s Italian Dictionary
Japanese
REF 679 .S68 1996 The Kanji Dictionary
Russian
REF 2640 .W5 The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary
REF 2640 .M8 1985 English-Russian Dictionary: 53,000 Entries, 20th
stereotype ed.
Spanish
REF PC 4271 .K38 2003 501 Spanish Verbs Fully Conjugated in All the
Tenses and Moods in a New Easy-to-Learn Format, Alphabetically
Arranged
REF PC 4640 .O94 2001 The Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish,
2nd rev. ed with supplements
REF PC 4640 .V69 1994 Vox Compact Spanish and English Dictionary:
English-Spanish/Spanish-English
Ethnic Studies
REF GN 307 .E53 1991 Encyclopedia of World Cultures
REF GH 495.4 .E53 1993 The Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World
REF E 184 .A1 G14 2000 Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
REF E 184 .A1 H35 Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
Selected Circulating Books
American Sign Language
HV 2474 .S3555 1995 Language in Motion: Exploring the Nature of Sign
HV 2474 .G73 2003 Talking with Your Hands, Listening with Your Eyes:
A Complete Photographic Guide to American Sign Language
HV 2474 .D46 2005 Sign to Learn: American Sign Language in the Early
Childhood Classroom
Arabic
PJ 6307 .A34 1996 Arabic for English Speaking Students
PJ 7510 .N5 1969 A Literary History of the Arabs
PJ 7694 .E1 Anthology of Islamic Literature from the Rise of Islam
to Modern Times
French
PC 2640 .O84 1995 The Oxford Paperback French Dictionary and Grammar
PQ 405 .F6 M62 1992 Modern French Poets, Selections with Translations:
A Dual-Language Book
PQ 2082 .C3 1959 Candide (Voltaire)
PQ 2605 .A3734 M93 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Albert
Camus)
PQ 2637 .A82 H9 No Exit and Three Other Plays (Jean-Paul Sartre)
German
PF 3640 .H372 1991 Harrap’s Student German
PT 921 .K5613 1992 The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
PT 2621 .A26 A225 1997 Best Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book
(Franz Kafka)
PT 1327 .F58 A6 1993 Five Great German Short Stories: A Dual-Language
Book
PT 1160 .E5 G74 1995 Great German Poems of the Romantic Era
Italian
PQ 4835 .I7 A225 1994 Eleven Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book
(Luigi Pirandello)
PQ 4302 .F69 The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
PQ 4338 .B6 E44 1990 The Life of Dante (Trattatello in laude di
Dante) (Giovanni Boccaccio)
PQ 4809 .A45 C513 1978 Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
PQ 4695 .E5 B6 1995 The Coffee Shop (Carlo Goldoni)
Japanese
PL 679 .S68 1996 The Kanji Dictionary
PL 782 .E8 M62 1962 Modern Japanese Stories
PL 794.4 .A25 The Way of Silence: The Prose and Poetry of Basho
PL 898 .J3 Japanese Haiku: Two Hundred Twenty Examples of Seventeen-Syllable
Poems
PL 839 .A7 A26 1963 Seven Japanese Tales (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Latin
PA 2365 .L3 C3 1960 Cassell’s New Latin Dictionary: Latin-English/English-Latin
PA 6004 .H3 A History of Latin Literature
PA 6394 .A2 1961 Complete Works of Horace: The Original Latin Text
of Horace’s Odes, Epodes, Satires, and Epistles with an Interlinear
English Translation (Students’ Interlinear Translations)
PA 6807 .A1 H3 1961 Virgil’s Aeneid, Books I-XII, Together
with Bucolis, Eclogues, and Georgics (Students’ Interlinear
Translations)
PA 6236 .D4 Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War, Books
I-VII: The Original Latin Text with an Interlinear English Translation
(Students’ Interlinear Translations)
Russian
PG 2121 .S47 1957 Cortina’s Russian in 20 Lessons with Illustrations
PG 3213 .G8 1943 A Treasury of Russian Literature
PG 3366 .A6 W37 1966 War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
PG 3325 .B76 1957 The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
PG 3488 .O4 P813 1977 Prussian Nights: A Poem (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
Spanish
PC 4640 .V69 1994 Vox Compact Spanish and English Dictionary: English-Spanish/Spanish-English,
2nd ed.
PC 4271 .K38 2003 501 Spanish Verbs Fully Conjugated in All the
Tenses and Moods in a New Easy-to-Learn Format, Alphabetically Arranged
PQ 6172 .R46 N56 1994 Nine Centuries of Spanish Literature: A Dual-Language
Anthology
PQ 6613 .A763 P613 1987 Poem of the Deep Song (Federico Garcia Lorca)
PQ 8097 .N4 E7913 1991 Spain in the Heart (Pablo Neruda)
Ethnic Studies
F 790 .M5 V54 1999 The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and
the Government’s War on Dissent
185.925 .T39 1998 In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans
in the American West, 1528-1990
F 869 .L89 M57 1993 Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture
and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
E 184 .A75 A8433 2000 Asian Americans: Experiences and Perspectives
E 184 .A1 S3 2000 Racial and Ethnic Groups, 8th ed
Full-Text Books Online
This database includes access to such titles as: The Complete Idiot’s
Guide to Learning Sign Language, The Arabian Nights, The Complete
Idiot’s Guide to Learning French on Your Own, The Complete
Idiot’s Guide to Learning German on Your Own, The Complete
Idiot’s Guide to Learning Italian on Your Own, The Complete
Idiot’s Guide to the Roman Empire, Russian Identities: A Historical
Survey, Countdown to Spanish: Learn to Communicate in 24 Hours, Encyclopedia
of Race and Ethnic Studies.
The following books are available on the World Wide Web:
Lessons
(American Sign Language)
Arabic
Reading Course
French Tutorial
Animated German
Grammar
Basic Italian Grammar
A Japanese Guide to Japanese
Grammar
Experience Latin
with Fr. Reginald Foster
Russian Lessons.net
Basic
Spanish for the Virtual Student
Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en
linea | Off-Campus
Access
Print Magazines in Kiefer Library
La Tribuna
La Voz
The Library’s subscriptions to computing journals are primarily
in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic
formats through online databases. (see below)
Magazine, Journal & Newspaper
Article Databases or Online Periodicals
Academic
Search Premier | Off-Campus
Access
Fuente
Academica | Off
Campus Access
Proquest
Research Library | Off-Campus
Access
MedicLatina | Off-Campus
Access
“ASL Pah!” A Journal
for American Sign Language Students and Teachers
Journal of Arabic and
Islamic Studies
La guinguette:
Le Journal
GFL: German as a Foreign Language
AATI (American Association
of Teachers of Italian) Newsletter
Nipponia:
Quarterly Web Magazine
Ephemeris
Eurasia Daily Monitor
CiberLetras: Revista
de critica literaria y de cultura/Journal of Literary Criticism
and CultureStandards:
The International Journal of Multicultural Studies
Other Library
Materials
Video/DVD
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #3-B09 Sign
Language: Singing in Sign
HF 5386.5 .D43 1994 Dealing with Diversity
Audiocassettes/CD
PC 2121 .F74 1974 French
PF 3121 .G47 1980 German
PC 1121 .I82 1980 Italian
PG 2121 .R87 1980 Russian
CDNM PC 4129 .E5 J37 2004 Hola, Amigos!\
Searching the Library Catalog
The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you.
The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides
access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the
following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in
the library catalog:
American Sign Language, Arabic language, French language, German
language, Italian language, Japanese language, Latin language, Russian
language, Spanish language, ethnic groups
Selected Web Resources
American Sign Language
A Basic Dictionary
of ASL Terms
Laurent
Clerc National Deaf Education Center: Becoming a Sign Language
Interpreter
National
Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: American
Sign Language
Yamada
Language Center, University of Oregon: American Sign Language Fonts
American
Sign Language: Fact and Fancy
Arabic
Omniglot: Writing
Systems & Languages of the World: Arabic Script
Online
Dictionaries: English-Arabic Online Dictionary
National
Institute for Technology and Liberal Education: Arab Culture and
Civilization
The Arab World:
Your Guide to Everything Arab
Café-Syria:
Arabic Language
French
French Tutorial
English-French
Dictionary Lookup
French Language
Exercises
Ethnologue.com:
French, a Language of France
Basic
Word List: English-French
German
Beolingus: Dictionary
LernerDeutsch:
An Elementary Review Grammar of German
Vistawide
World Languages & Cultures: German
German Language Guide.com
German: Germanic
Language of 96 Million
Italian
WordReference.com: English-Italian
Dictionary
Italian: Romance
Language of 62 Million
RAI
International Online: Italica
Centro Studi Italiani:
The Italian Electronic Classroom!
Coniugatore
di verbi
Japanese
japan-guide.com
English to Japanese
Dictionary
Jim
Breen’s
WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server (Monash University Site)
Kanji
alive
Japanese Kanji
Calligraphy
Latin
English
to Latin to English Dictionary
Latin
Language
Orbis
Latinus
Forum Romanum
Latin
Grammar
Russian
Rustran.com: Language Teacher
MasterRussian.com
Russian: An
Interactive Online Reference Grammar
Transparent
Language: Learn the Russian Language
Welcome
to Russian Language Learning on the Web: A Joint Project of the
University of Sussex and the London School of Economics and Political
Science
Spanish:
SpanishDict.com
BBC Languages:
Spanish
Webspanol:
Spanish Language Resources On-Line
Trent
University, Spanish Studies: Mas arriba: Spanish Language
Exercises
Basic
Spanish Words with Pronunciation
Ethnic Studies
Migration
and Ethnicitiy
Yale University
Guide to American Ethnic Studies
Center for World Indigenous
Studies
American
Ethnic Geography: A Cultural Geography of the United States and
Canada
Digital
History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research.
Ethnic America
Selected Statistical
Resources
Vistawide
World Languages and Cultures
Global Reach,
Bring the World to Your Website: Global Internet Statistics (by
Language)
NCELA,
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition, Language
Enhancement and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient
Students (OELA) of the U.S. Department of Education: Languages
Spoken by U.S. Students
NationMaster.com:
Languages by Country
NationMaster.com:
Ethnic Groups by Country
Selected Online Images and
Other Media
TeacherVision,
Lesson Plans, Printables, and More: American Sign Language Manual
Alphabet
Maps
of World, Your Windows to the World: World Map Showing Top 10 Countries
with Most Arabic Language Speaker in the World
Maps
of World, Your Windows to the World: World Map Showing Top 10 Countries
with Most French Language Speaker in the World
Maps
of World, Your Windows to the World: World Map Showing Top 10 Countries
with Most German Language Speaker in the World
Locali d’autore: Un
progetto di ABech informatica
Kwintessential
Language and Culture Specialists: Japan—Language, Culture,
Customs, and Etiquette
Languages
of the World: Latin (Latina Linqua)
Image:
RussianLanguageMap.png
Vistawide
World Languages & Cultures: Spanish
U.S.
Department of State, International Information Programs, eJournalUSA:
The United States in 2005: Who We Are Today
Other Library Catalogs
Colorado State University
Loveland Public Library
Prospector: Colorado Unified
Catalog
University of Northern College Library
Catalog
High Plains Library District
Windsor-Severance
Library District
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