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Free Multilingual Reading Resources
The Literacy
Center: Early literacy resource materials available in English,
Spanish, German, French. Ideal for parents to use with their children.
Direct use with adults must be determined on a case-by-case basis.
BookBox: A
web-based jukebox of digital stories. Read stories in 18 different
languages and follow text captions using a technique known as Same
Language Subtitling.
Read Please: An
example of free text to speech assistive technology. If you access the
download page, you can download multilingual voices so that the text will
be read in a native language voice. Among the languages supported: British
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Google Language Tools: Google provides a method for users to use
the Google interface in their native language. On this resource page they
also provide language translation tools that can be used to translate
individual words or short text passages. Bilingual students often use
these type of tools to try and understand the meaning of a text passage by
reading it in both languages.