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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
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
Weld Library District
Windsor-Severance Library Distric

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