Arabic and English Together on One Page: Dual Language Books at Toronto Public Library
Our friends from Syria, Toronto Public Library invites you to explore the library’s newest items in our Arabic collections – bilingual Arabic children’s books. The English children’s books have been translated in many languages including Arabic, and represent some of the most popular children’s books for all different stages of childhood. The Arabic translation appears side by side to the English language on the pages of the books. Here are a few examples of the titles:
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4 thoughts on “Arabic and English Together on One Page: Dual Language Books at Toronto Public Library”
This is a wonderful post,very helpful, welcoming and informative to new immigrants with young children. Thank you very much for posting.
Honestly, this post illustrates the problem TPL is having with its outreach. There is nothing in the post in arabic. Only a tiny fraction of the Syrians arriving here speak any English at all. Most don’t know what a library system is.
How does the TPL imagine this information is going to actually reach Syrians or other arabic speakers? Google Translate is the best friend fur us helping Syrian families, but it only goes so far. IT’s exhausting to use.
Please, if you at the TPL are at all serious about reaching out, do something more than provide the one-pager in arabic (that I picked up for our sponsored family). Get some content in arabic up. Build a bridge or two. I’m sorry to say I entirely disagree with Shelley above – this post to me demonstrates a huge blind spot, TPL!
Hey LH, did you know with a click of a button, you can easily translate an entire website into a language of your choice?
Here’s the page translated into Arabic: https://translate.google.ca/translate?sl=auto&tl=ar&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.tpl.ca%2Fnew_to_canada%2F2016%2F04%2Fto-our-friends-from-syria-explore-our-arabic-collections-at-a-library-near-you.html%23comments&edit-text=
Many non-native speakers of English are aware of this feature. If not, here’s how: https://translate.google.ca/
Ah, I see you are aware of Google Translate. Hmm..perhaps someone out there has another idea…