Our ESOL collection at Slough Library has books, CD-Roms, CDs and cassettes for learning English for beginners and more advanced students. This includes resources for speakers of other languages such as Arabic, Polish, Hindi, Panjabi, Urdu, Russian, French, Cantonese Chinese and Mandarin Chinese.
We also have some books that teach English through other languages eg, Urdu, Hindi, Panjabi in our foreign language book collections.
Dictionaries are available for a large number of languages - both for loan and for use in the library eg, English-Urdu/Urdu-English.
Access is also available to some online bilingual dictionaries for European languages from Oxford Reference Online. Library members can access online dictonaries from home using Reference Online.
Library staff can provide information on adult education and college courses in the local area.
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