The Kittiwake Trust

Multilingual Library

languages currently in the library

Afrikaans - Albanian - Amharic - Amsterdams - Antwerps - Arabic - Aramaic -  Armenian - Bahamian - Bahasa Indonesia - Basque - Bayerisch - Belarusian - Bengali - Bosnian - Brabants - Braille - Brazilian Portuguese - Breton - Bulgarian - Cantonese - Catalan - Chickasaw - Chinese - Choctaw - Corsican - Croatian - Czech - Danish - Dari - Doric - Drents - Dundee - Dutch - Dzongkha - English - Esperanto - Estonian - Faroese - Farsi - Finnish - French - Frisian - Fula/Fulani - Gaelic - Galician - Gents - Geordie - Georgian - German - Greek - Gronings - Guernsey - Gujarati - Haags - Hebrew - Herero - Hindi - Hungarian - Icelandic - Inuktitut - Irish - Italian - Japanese - Jersey French - Kazakh - Khasi - Khmer - Klingon - Korean - Kurdish Sorani - Lao - Latin - Latvian - Limburgs - Lingala - Lithuanian -  Luxembourgish - Macedonian - Malagasy - Malay - Malayalam - Maltese - Mandarin - Maori - Marathi - Mongolian - Montenegrin - Nahuatl - Nepali - Norwegian - Nyanja - Orkney - Oromiffa - Oshindonga - Otomi - Papiamento - Papua New Guinea Pidgin - Pashto - Polish - Portuguese - Punjabi - Puter - Romanian - Romansh -  Rotterdams - Russian - Sanskrit - Scots - Serbian - Sesotho - Shetlandic - Shona - Sinhalese - Slovak - Slovene - Somali - Spanish - Sranan Tongo - Swahili - Swedish - Sylheti - Tagalog - Tamil - Thai - Tibetan - Tigrinya - Turkish - Twents - Twi - Ukrainian - Urdu - Utregs - Vallader - Vietnamese - Welsh - Westvlams - isiXhosa - Yiddish - Yorkie - Yoruba - Zeeuws -  isiZulu

American Sign Language - British Sign Language

​We currently have well over 23,000 books for adults and children, in more than 140 languages and dialects - and Geordie!

 

Subjects range from fiction to biography, sport, crafts, art, travel, poetry, history, music.... you name it and it's quite probably on a shelf somewhere.

 

Some of the children's picture books are not for loan as they are very expensive to replace if lost. We encourage families to read together in the library and see it as a second home. The African languages are also not for loan as they are incredibly hard to source and difficult to replace.

 

We also have a few journals - Race and Class being the one with the longest complete run. Others include Banipal, Index on Censorship and some (rather old) music journals such as Sangeet Natak.

Membership

​Library membership costs £5 per year.

Free for those awaiting decisions on their asylum applications

activities and classes at the library

 From time to time we hold activities such as poetry events, talks on local history or world festivals, language tasters and related subjects.

 

We welcome enquiries from people wishing to hold languages classes at the library. We have a classroom to hire by the hour for those looking for space to give classes or hold meetings. If you wish to hire a space, please drop in at the library and have a word with our staff or drop us an email.

 

The German and Italian classes are temporarily suspended - watch this space for news of when they will start up again.

 

 

Saturdays | 14:30

Join us to meet and chat in both languages,

tell stories, help each other with language questions

and probably tell bilingual jokes!

Monday 11:15 - 12:15

Tuesday 11:30-12:30

Come and join us in a friendly informal atmosphere. Beginners welcome.

NB NO CLASSES ON 21 AND 22 APRIL AND 5 AND 6 MAY

 

Fridays| 11:30 - 12.30

Join us to meet and have casual conversations to practice your Japanese. No booking is required and all levels are welcome.

Newsletter

We publish a quarterly newsletter and would be happy to add reviews, comments, and articles from people visiting the library. Please get in touch if you'd like to write something for us.