Skip to Main Content
Augusta University

Information Resources for International Study & Study Abroad (Health Sciences Campus): Culture and Language

This guide lists Health Sciences Accessible library and web resources for finding financial, political, and cultural information on countries around world.

Films on Demand: International Travel and Business Films

Films on Demand features include:

Globe Trekker: Jamaica (45:18): An introduction to the country, people, culture, and history by Ian Wright

Globe Trekker: Peru (48:17): An introduction to the country, people, culture, and history by Neil Gibson

Globe Trekker: Ultimate Mexico (50:27): An introduction to the country, people, culture, and history by Ian Wright

Ecuador: Worlds Together (25:01): provides an overview of one of South America's most diverse countries

Although presented from a business perspective, this series of videos features advice that can be helpful to any international traveler. Topics including greetings, body language and the concept of time. Watch the rest of the Your Cultural Passport to International Business (28:01) series for more perspectives on international culture and travel.

Dictionaries and Translation Tools

 

Mango Languages

Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System (ARCPLS) patrons have free access to Mango Languages, a self-paced online language resource that consists of seventy (70) languages. Click the Mango Languages icon  on the ARCPLS homepage to sign in and access the language classes. A library account may be required.

Google Translate

Google Translate is a free translation service that provides instant translations between dozens of different languages. It can translate words, sentences and web pages between any combination of our supported languages. With Google Translate, we hope to make information universally accessible and useful, regardless of the language in which it’s written.

Bing Translator

Powered By Microsoft Translator® this tool provides translations of phrases, words and whole websites. Includes Haitian Creole.

imTranslator

Haitian Creole Translation service by ImTranslator offers online translations from and to Haitian Creole language for over 50 other languages. Haitian Creole Translation tool includes Haitian Creole online translator, multilingual on-screen keyboard, back translation, email service and much more.

Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages 

A project was commissioned by The EuropeanCommission(DG III) and executed by Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and Mercator School, Department of applied Linguistics.

Glossaries by Language 

Produced and maintained by Language Automation, this site contains a glossaries for conversational, technical and medical terminology in 50+ languages (organized alphabetically).