Following up Vivienne's recent note, we have some more details - please can
anyone who tries out the site let us know how they find it?
here is the address
http://www.mylanguage.gov.au
It has a great deal of information on it - it is set up through the State
Libraries across Australia - the languages vary - services have Arabic/
Chinese/ African / Northern European etc - some have a number of Pacific
Island languages
I hope it may be of use to you in the UK.
Best Wishes
Vivienne
Manager | NSW FGM Program & Women's Health at Work Program
Building 55B 5 Fleet St, North Parramatta 2150
Tel 02 9840 4182 | Fax 02 9840 3004 | Mob 0412 442 458 |
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Prof. Mark R D Johnson
Director, MSRC / CEEHD
De Montfort University, Hawthorn Building
The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH
Expert Advisor, Ethnicity, Equalities & Diversity,
NHS Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence / NHS Evidence
(press release stated:)
MyLanguage - A new website for multicultural Australia
After six years of operation, MyLanguage, a web portal to millions of
multilingual information resources for new and emergent Australian
communities was relaunched at the FECCA Conference in Adelaide this month.
Mr Hieu Van Le, Lieutenant Governor of South Australia and Chairman of the
South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission recently
launched the new MyLanguage web portal saying:
'What we have in MyLanguage is perhaps one of the most valuable tools for
living that newly arrived Australians can get their hands on today. It
provides a whole suite of important pieces of information - and in more than
65 languages.
If you've just settled here, if your English is still developing, and if
you're looking to find your feet in a rather unfamiliar place, then this is
the website for you,' he said.
MyLanguage reflects Australia's position as one of the most multicultural
countries on earth and seeks to simplify access to important online
information resources for a culturally and linguistically diverse
population.
The new portal provides clear links to multilingual search engines, web
directories, government websites, online dictionaries, and syndicated news
headlines. It also contains translations of online government and community
information relating to health, legal issues, settlement, education and
public libraries along with information on multilingual library collections
around Australia.
MyLanguage national manager, Brendan Fitzgerald, says the new MyLanguage is
all about making life easier and more inclusive for Australia's non-English
speaking population.
'Through the delivery of quality language services MyLanguage ensures that
individuals from non-English speaking communities have fair and equitable
access to services such as health, education, housing and the justice
system.'
MyLanguage is a joint partnership between the State Libraries of Victoria,
New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia; Public Libraries Services
South Australia, the Northern Territory Library and Libraries ACT.
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