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On Friday, Feb 3, the Yamada Language Center held an Open House in their new location in 175 McKenzie on the University of Oregon (UO) campus. The Yamada Language Center (YLC) was founded in 1991 to centralize and improve support for the 4000+ language teaching faculty and students at the UO. The center provides support for the language departments on campus, and it also has its own Self Study languages program, offering 7 less commonly taught languages open to UO students, staff, faculty and community members. The center hosts a language exchange website, helping those at UO match up with a language partner, and also ANVILL, a web-based toolbox for language teachers. FLIS day, put on by the center, is Oregon’s largest foreign language and culture event, this year to be held on May 5, 2017. The powerhouse behind the YLC is its director, Jeff Magoto. You can read about him in a previous spotlight from April 25.

Please join us in celebrating the Yamada Language Center and its unwaivering support for language education, welcoming the center to its new location.