CLS Hosting Workshop on Heritage Language Learners

 The CLS will be hosting a week-long instructional innovation workshop on heritage language learners from Monday, May 16th, through Friday, May 20th. The first two days are open to all interested language instructors, with keynote speakers Olga Kagan, Director of the…

Spring 2011 CLS Calendar of Events

Date and Time Event Fri., 11-Feb-2011             3 -5 p.m. FLAS workshop on assessment (CLS Room 100) Mon., 14-Feb-2011  12:30-2:00 p.m. Introduction to Berkeley film clip archive (CLS Room 100) Thurs., 17-Feb-2011 12:30-1:30 p.m. Brown Bag: Heritage Language Interest Group (CLS…

An Apologia for Language Study

J. Max Mikitish is a sophomore Linguistics major in Silliman College. His main academic interests are historical linguistics, areal linguistics, etymology, and dialectology. He has studied nine languages (7 while at Yale): Spanish, Latin, Hittite, Chinese, Tibetan, Old English, German,…

Fall 2010 Calendar of CLS Events

Date and Time Event Thurs, 23-Sep-10 2:30-3:30 p.m. Demo of Chinese Language Learning Software, with Tom Kidd from Qooco (CLS  Room 100) Fri., 24-Sep-10 12:30-1:30 p.m. Classes V2 Familiarization Session with Gloria Hardman (CLS Library, Room 106)