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Our Topic of the Week today deals with the importance of indigenous language education, and our Activity of the Week was originally created to teach Swahili, a less-commonly taught language (LCTL) in the United States. Public perception of a "normal" language class is usually a popular language such as Spanish being taught to students who have no prior experience with the language. However, we believe that a variety of language learning contexts can inform all language teaching. Much of the research cited in our Topic of the Week article supports not only indigenous language education, but also all heritage language instruction, early childhood language education, and language immersion at all levels. Our Activity of the Week can be adapted to travel to a destination within any target culture. We hope that you enjoy this week's InterCom.