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About Language Book Centre
Located on the first floor of Abbey’s Bookshop at 131 York Street, opposite
Sydney’s historic Queen Victoria Building and just 50 metres from Town
Hall railway station, through which every suburban train passes, Language
Book Centre is adjacent to bus stops servicing a number of North Shore,
Northern Beaches, Inner West and North-west destinations and just a short
walk to Eastern and Southern services.
There is plenty of nearby off-street parking for those travelling by
car. With any purchase of $50 or more, we offer a $5 parking voucher on
presentation of your Queen Victoria Building parking ticket. . |
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Language Book Centre is
a specialist bookshop for:
- Teachers at Primary & Secondary Schools, Universities, TAFE Colleges,
Community Schools, English Colleges.
- Anyone wishing to study or read a foreign language.
- Travellers & those doing business overseas or in another language.
- Learners of English.
- Translators & Interpreters.
- Parents wanting children to learn another language.
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Our extensive range includes:
- Bilingual, Monolingual & Specialist Dictionaries in more than 100
languages.
- Textbooks, cassettes, CDs, videos, practice books, cultural resources
& teaching materials for primary, secondary & tertiary courses.
- Textbooks, cassettes, CDs, grammars & reference materials for self-tuition.
- ESL texts, skills practice materials, cassettes & graded readers.
- English in the workplace, in business, for academic & special purposes.
- Large computer software section for foreign languages and ESL. (IBM/Mac
software, word processors, translators, etc).
- Resources, reference books & other materials for teachers at all
levels.
- Multicultural books and resources for all age groups and teachers.
- Bilingual stories & folktales in Asian, European and other community
languages.
- Specialist dictionaries & reference books for translators and interpreters.
- Phrasebooks and cassettes for travellers.
- Books on literacy and bilingualism.
- Fiction in major European & some Asian languages.
- Books for children of all ethnic backgrounds in English and 45 other
languages.
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Over 100 languages including:
| Aboriginal |
Afrikaans |
Amharic |
| Arabic |
Armenian |
Azerbaijani |
| Basque |
Bosnian |
Bulgarian |
| Burmese |
Byelorussian |
Cambodian |
| Chechen |
Cantonese |
Catalan |
| Chinese |
Croatian |
Czech |
| Danish |
Dutch |
Esperanto |
| Fijian |
Finnish |
French |
| Georgian |
Gaelic |
Greek (modern) |
| Gujurati |
Hausa |
Hawaiian |
| Hebrew |
Hindi |
Hungarian |
| Icelandic |
Ilokano |
Indonesian |
| Irish |
Italian |
Japanese |
| Korean |
Kurdish |
Lao |
| Latvian |
Lithuanian |
Macedonian |
| Malay |
Maltese |
Maori |
| Mongolian |
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Nepali |
Norwegian |
| Persian |
Pidgin |
Polish |
| Portuguese |
Punjabi |
Romanian |
| Russian |
Samoan |
Sanskrit |
| Serbian |
Slovak |
Somali |
| Spanish |
Swahili |
Swedish |
| Tagalog |
Tamil |
Thai |
| Tibetan |
Tongan |
Turkish |
| Ukrainian |
Urdu |
Uzbek |
| Vietnamese |
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Yiddish |
| Zulu |
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Our People
Being truly independent our multilingual staff are committed to offering
helpful, unbiased advice. This we can do, as we are retail only. We do
not publish or distribute. |
Christmas
Hours
Regular
trading hours except for:
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December |
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| 19 Fri |
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8am - 9pm |
| 20 Sat |
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8am - 8pm |
| 21 Sun |
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9am - 6pm |
| 22-23 Mon-Tue |
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8am - 9pm |
| 24 Wed |
Christmas Eve |
8am - 7pm |
| 25 Thu |
Christmas Day |
closed |
| 26 Fri |
Boxing Day |
10am - 5pm |
| 31 Wed |
New Year's Eve |
8.30am - 5pm |
| January |
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| 1 Thu |
New Year's Day |
closed |
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