| By Gale Staff |
Public librarians strive to deliver equitable learning opportunities across diverse communities. The right online learning platform lets them cater to the needs of people with a variety of goals, schedules, and backgrounds. How can you ensure language barriers don’t hinder your patrons’ access to valuable learning resources? Offer access to content in their native language.
Why Is Native-Language Content Important?
For non-native English speakers, a lack of native-language content can lead to isolation from learning experiences in your library. Individuals who struggle with English may be less likely to use library resources, preventing them from learning new skills that could enhance their professional or personal lives.
To bridge this gap and ensure inclusion, libraries can offer accessible resources in multiple languages. Connecting learners to content taught in their native language supports better engagement, skill development, and personal growth—and fosters a sense of belonging and empowerment in your community.
Explore a Flexible, Inclusive Online Learning Platform
Librarians use Gale Presents: Udemy to connect patrons to thousands of self-paced, on-demand video courses to learn in-demand skills in business, technology, personal interests, and more from industry experts—including over 15,000 courses taught by native-speaking instructors in 15 languages.
The International Collection in Gale Presents: Udemy includes an array of courses in Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
What’s Different About Native-Language Courses in Gale Presents: Udemy?
The International Collection courses on Gale Presents: Udemy provide localized learning experiences that go beyond traditional dubbing and captions. Courses are taught by instructors who are native experts in their fields, so they’re tailored to cultural nuances and consider etiquette and relevant skills that may vary by region. Instructors develop courses with their local culture and discourse in mind to create an immersive and culturally relevant learning experience.
Courses in the International Collection are not only in the patrons’ native language but they’re also current, relevant, and top-rated. Udemy’s unique marketplace content model ensures courses cover a wide range of in-demand skills, including leadership and management, cloud computing, marketing, sales, IT operations, and personal development.
How to Find Native-Language Courses
The easiest way to access native-language courses is to use the language filter on the left side of the course results page, which shows all available languages by default. Users can also change their account’s language preference or select their language preference in the account drop-down menu.
For a fully localized learning environment, users can also view the Gale Presents: Udemy interface in their preferred language. Regardless of the language a learner selects for their interface, they can search in any language to get relevant course results.
Additionally, for those interested in in-demand English courses, Gale Presents: Udemy includes translated captions for the top-performing courses in each market.
Ready to Offer More Inclusive Learning Experiences?
Provide learning that speaks to everyone. By offering courses in multiple languages, you can reach more diverse populations, foster inclusiveness, and promote personal growth for individuals across your community. Bridge the language gap and provide equitable learning opportunities for all with Gale Presents: Udemy.
Request a free trial today to explore Gale Presents: Udemy and the International Collection.
