Libraries today received a gift as Multilingual Books announced that it will give away 20,000 free language courses valued at $1,000,000 to schools throughout the United States and the world.

To qualify, just call, or email us the titles you want, or any questions you have about this amazing offer. The downloads offered include the comprehensive Foreign Service Institute language courses, the popular Audio Libros Spanish Intermediate Readers, and the renowned Platiquemos Spanish Course.

Kenneth Tomkins, president of Multilingual Books, said today, “We are happy to announce this giveaway. We know how language demand is soaring for schools, and also how strapped their budgets can be. This is an opportunity for us to help.”

Multilingual Books has offered language courses, foreign language books, and DVDs online since 1995. Multilingual Books also maintains the Web’s most popular free foreign language radio and TV directory. http://multilingualbooks.com/online-radio.html

Each school can receive up to $500 in downloads.

To see the downloads offered, go to: http://www.multilingualbooks.com/librarydownloads.html.

To contact Multilingual Books, e-mail sales@multilingualbooks.com or call 206-384-3728.

Multilingual Books now provides the widest amount of free content for language learners. You will enjoy the radio guide, television directory, free video playground, magazines and newspapers, flags of the world, free language lessons, dictionaries in any language or specialty, ASL schools, alphabets and Adele songs for sign language students.

Let us know what sites you would like included and any additions you would like to see to our Multilingual World-Wide Media Guide.

Thank you, Kenneth Tomkins, founder of Multilingual Books and senior chess master.

English: Happy Earth Day
French: Jour de la Terre heureux
Afrikaans: Happy aarde dag
Albanian: Gëzuar ditë toka
Arabic: سعيد يوم الأرض
Azerbaijani: Xoş yer gün
Basque: Zoriontsu lurraren eguna
Belarusion: Шчаслівы дзень Зямлі
Bengali: শুভ আর্থ ডে
Bulgarian: Честит Ден на Земята
Catalan: Feliç Dia de la Terra
Chinese Simpified: 快乐地球日
Chinese Traditional: 快樂地球日

Croatian: Sretan Dan planeta Zemlje
Czech: Sretan Dan planeta Zemlje
Danish: Tillykke med Jordens Dag
Dutch: Gelukkig Dag van de Aarde
Esperanto: Feliĉa tero tago
Estonian Palju Maapäev
Filipino: Maligayang lupa araw
Finnish: Hyvää Earth Day
French: Jour de la Terre heureux
Galician: Feliz Día da Terra
Georgian: ბედნიერი დედამიწის დღე
Greek: Καλή Ημέρα της Γης
Gujarati: હેપી પૃથ્વી દિવસ
Haitian Creole: Kè kontan sou latè jou
Hebrew: יום כדור הארץ שמח
Hindi: हैप्पी पृथ्वी दिवस
Hungarian: Boldog Föld Napja
Icelandic: Til hamingju með jörð dag
Indonesian: Selamat hari bumi
Irish: Lá cré Shona
Italian: Giornata della Terra Felice
Japanese: 幸せな地球の日
Kannada: ಹ್ಯಾಪಿ ಭೂಮಿಯ ದಿನ
Korean: 해피 지구의 날
Latin: Felix terra die
Latvian: Laimīgs zeme diena
Lithuanian: Happy žemių diena
Macedonian: Среќен Ден на планетата Земја
Malay: Bumi hari bahagia
Maltese: Jum Happy art
Norwegian: Glad Earth Day
Persian: روز جهانی زمین مبارک
Polish: Szczęśliwy dzień ziemia
Portuguese: Feliz Dia da Terra
Romanian: Fericit Ziua Pamantului
Russian: Счастливый день Земли
Serbian: Срећан Дан планете Земље
Slovak: Šťastný Deň Zeme
Slovenian: Srečen Dan Zemlje
Spanish: Feliz Día de la Tierra
Swahili: Furaha duniani siku
Swedish: Lycklig Earth Day
Tamil: சந்தோஷமாக பூமி நாள்
Telugu: హ్యాపీ భూమి రోజు
Thai: วันคุ้มครองโลกมีความสุข
Turkish: Mutlu toprak gün
Ukrainian: Щасливий день Землі
Urdu: خوش زمین کے دن
Vietnamese: Ngày hạnh phúc trái đất
Welsh: Diwrnod ddaear Hapus
Yiddish: מזל ערד טאָג

“Comics have always been a passion of mine,” Spurlock told me when I asked why he was making a film about Comic Con after such a “weighty” work as Super Size Me.

Spurlock’s delicate touch allows love stories and comics to mix well in his ode to the San Diego extravaganza. Each story is compelling on its own, and is brilliantly woven together with the others for the viewers’ enjoyment. I found one storyline about a comic store owner whose business is making the switch to digital particularly poignant – especially as I have encountered the same issues with my bookstore.

Recently I saw The Greatest Movie Ever Sold in which Spurlock investigates the age-old art of product placement in films — while funding the movie entirely through product placement. I was humored when another reporter asked if there was any product placement in Comic Con. “Yes, there was, he answered — by Marvel Comics. (Note: I received $000,000$ for this plug)

Despite the funding, or perhaps partly because of it, Comic Con is an entertaining and uplifting movie. As a big fan of his work, it is a relief to see him not having to eat unhealthy food or peddle products to fund his movie. Without question he is a brilliant documentary maker, and filmgoers will not regret viewing his latest cinematic creation.

As a large number of visitors to the Multilingual Books website reside outside the United States, I wanted to know if he was planning to distribute the film around the globe.

“Plans are underway to release the film internationally very soon,” he assured me.

Go see Comic-Con you will be glad you did.

Kenneth Tomkins
www.multilingualbooks.com/wp/languagenews

Today’s good news comes from an excellent Seattle Times article about Jefferson Award winner Cindy Nofziger, who has built 12 schools in war-torn Sierra Leone.

Cindy is a physical therapist for Seattle Public Schools and the state winner of the Jefferson Award, the “Nobel Prize” of public service.

Read more at the Seattle times,
http://bit.ly/y1Zzgy

Right on this site we have some great news too! Recently we built over 100 new video pages with foreign music,
cartoons in different languages and free language lessons and travel videos!
See http://multilingualbooks.com/wp/videos/ to get to most of these, for cartoons check out http://multilingualbooks.com/wp/cartoons/cartoons-and-videos-from-around-the-world/

PS Now you can download a free 1-2 hour course in 20 languages Just fill out this short form and I will send a link.

http://multilingualbooks.com/fsi-samples.html