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Title: Study Abroad Opportunities for Russian Studies
Body: Here are three study abroad opportunities, all of which have an October 1st application deadline for the coming spring semester: --- The American Councils Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) serves both graduate and undergraduate students as well as working professionals. The academic program is designed to improve participants' oral, listening, reading, and writing proficiency in Russian language and to develop their knowledge of Russian history, politics, culture, and society. The academic year, semester, and summer programs provide approximately twenty hours per week of in-class instruction in Russian grammar, phonetics, conversation, and cultural studies at Moscow International University, the Russian State Pedagogical University (Gertsen Institute) in St. Petersburg, and the KORA Center for Russian Language in Vladimir. One day per week of the academic program is set aside for local cultural excursions. A full-time U.S. resident director provides ongoing logistical support and emergency assistance to participants. Peer tutoring, internships, community service, and a broad range of extracurricular activities offer U.S. students a unique opportunity to connect with Russian friends and actively engage in Russian daily life. Learn more: http://www.acrussiaabroad.org/program.php?prog=RLASP --- The American Councils Business Russian Language and Internship (BRLI) Program combines a specially designed curriculum focusing on the language of Russian business with an internship averaging ten to fifteen hours per week at a multinational company, business, or non-governmental organization agency in Russia. Moscow International University and the Russian State Pedagogical (Gertsen) University in St. Petersburg host this program; students may apply to study for a semester, academic year, or summer. BRLI participants are granted U.S. academic credit through Bryn Mawr College. The highly individualized BRLI curriculum can be tailored to serve students ranging from intermediate to near native speakers of Russian; however, less advanced students should consider whether their language proficiency will enable them to engage in substantive internships and benefit from instruction in the style and lexicon of business speech. (Students lacking a strong command of Russian grammar, for example, should consider enrolling in RLASP before applying to the BRLI program.) A full-time U.S. resident director provides ongoing logistical support and emergency assistance to participants. Peer tutoring, Russian-American discussion clubs, and a broad range of extra-curricular activities provide unique opportunities for BRLI students to connect with Russian friends and immerse themselves in daily Russian life. Learn more: http://www.acrussiaabroad.org/program.php?prog=BR --- The Individualized Russian Language Program for Heritage Speakers is intended to address the specific needs of students who speak Russian at home or with relatives, or who grew up speaking Russian and wish to strengthen their Russian skills. Program participants work with American Councils staff and host university faculty to develop a tutorial program serving their unique needs as language learners. All individualized programs focus on the development of Russian language skills, including grammar, conversation, and phonetics; courses in literature, history, and area studies are available for advanced students. Participants attend a minimum of twelve hours of tutorials per week. Learn more: http://www.acrussiaabroad.org/program.php?prog=HSP
Source: American Councils
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Title: German Language Toastmasters Club in Washington, DC
Body: From http://9840.toastmastersclubs.org Are you looking for ways to improve your spoken German? Goethe-Institut Washington - Voice of Distinction Toastmasters Club invites you to join this exciting German public speaking club. In a club meeting, you practice giving prepared speeches as well as brief impromptu presentations, known as Table Topics. Each time you give a prepared speech, an evaluator will point out strengths as well as suggest improvements. Learn more about this club and when and where it meets at http://9840.toastmastersclubs.org
Source: Goethe-Institut
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Title: German Contest for Students Ages 10-18 in the US and Canada
Body: From http://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/lp/lhr/aoe/enindex.htm The Goethe-Institut is once again proud to present its annual Award of Excellence! Each year, the Award of Excellence contest provides young people in the United States and Canada with a contemporary and, above all, an authentic view of Germany by introducing them to a new topic. The short video, with English and French subtitles, is aimed at all students who have an interest in Germany, regardless of whether they’re studying German or not. This year’s contest film, “Ich bin ein Berliner,” is all about Berlin’s youth culture. What’s at stake? Young Learner’s Courses in Germany, trips to Berlin for teachers, and of course the Award of Excellence itself for classes with outstanding performance! The contest starts on September 2, 2013, on this web page. All US and Canadian students ages 10 to 18 are eligible to participate. Students can submit their answers online by either using their own e-mail addresses or an e-mail address organized by their teacher. Learn more about the contest at http://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/lp/lhr/aoe/enindex.htm
Source: Goethe-Institut
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Title: National German Honor Society
Body: From http://deltaphialpha.org The Delta Phi Alpha National German Honorary Society began with the founding of the Alpha chapter at Wofford College in 1929, and now has constituent chapters at 273 colleges and universities throughout the United States. Accredited institutions of higher education are welcome to submit an application to form a new Chapter of Delta Phi Alpha. Benefits include the possibility of grants (typically $250) to chapters and a $2500 scholarship for a senior German major (deadline is November 1st). Learn more about Delta Phi Alpha at http://deltaphialpha.org/2013/07/welcome
Source: Delta Phi Alpha
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Title: Online Canon of Greek Authors and Works
Body: From http://www.tlg.uci.edu/canon/fontsel The TLG Canon of Authors and Works is a searchable database and a bibliographic guide to the authors and works included in the TLG Digital Library. The Canon represents many years of research conducted by TLG staff members. A printed version of the Canon (Luci Berkowitz and Karl A. Squitier, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Canon of Greek Authors and Works, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press) was published in 1990. The Online Canon, now edited by Project Director, Maria Pantelia, has grown substantially since the early 1990s, especially as the TLG expanded into the Byzantine period. The Online Canon database currently contains over 12,000 bibliographical records and is regularly updated to include new entries as they are added to the TLG Digital Library. Explore the database at http://www.tlg.uci.edu/canon/fontsel
Source: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
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Title: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
Body: From http://www.hellenicsociety.org.uk For almost a century and a half the Hellenic Society has been the leading organization for the study of Greece with an international membership across all ages and walks of life. It maintains a world class library and publishes internationally acclaimed journals in the field. The Society also arranges an annual lecture series in London, holds occasional conferences, receptions and other meetings, and helps to arrange other lectures all around the UK in collaboration with the various local branches of the Classical Association. The Society aims to help those engaged in Hellenic Studies at all levels, and to this end it makes grants of various kinds to schools, universities and other institutions, undergraduates, graduate students and young researchers. For more information about membership benefits, go to http://www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/membership Member or not, you will find some nice videos at the Hellenic Society YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/HellenicSociety1879/videos
Source: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
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Title: A Visual Explorer for the Language of Greek Tragedy
Body: From http://daedalus.umkc.edu/VisualExplorer Using the linguistic dependency treebanks and digitized texts created by the Perseus Digital Library, Jeff Rydberg-Cox with assistance from Oliver Baker are creating social networks for a collection of Greek tragedies that allow users to visualize the interactions between characters in the plays. Because the number of characters who appear on stage in Greek tragedy is limited, most of these social network diagrams fall into a few basic types. The most interesting aspect of these networks are, therefore, the edges that connect the nodes within the graphs. The linguistic data used to label or even create these edges becomes the jumping off point for visualizing and exploring the language of Greek tragedy. The homepage of this project is available at http://daedalus.umkc.edu/VisualExplorer
Source: University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Title: Parlons français, c’est facile: Online French Workshops and Games
Body: From http://parlons-francais.tv5monde.com/Webdocs-to-learn-French/Annexes/p-112-lg1-Qui-sommes-nous-.htm Parlons français, c’est facile is the French cultural network's website raising awareness of French. The website has a placement test to determine which materials will be most beneficial for users and “webdocs.” Each webdoc tells you about a person's life in 10 clips, enhanced by complementary media. Explore this website at http://parlons-francais.tv5monde.com/Webdocs-to-learn-French/p-1-lg1-Accueil.htm
Source: Parlons français, c’est facile
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Title: New Open Source French Textbook
Body: COERLL is pleased to announce the beta version of Le littéraire dans le quotidien, by Joanna Luks, Cornell University. This open textbook breaks new ground in foreign language teaching and learning. Published as an open educational resource (OER) with an open copyright license, Le littéraire dans le quotidien (LLDQ) gives teachers full rights to edit and customize the content. In addition to its innovative open methods of publication and dissemination, LLDQ is characterized by innovative content. Inspired by the 2007 MLA Report "Foreign Language and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World" and recent AAUSC volumes, the book is based on a simple but radical premise--literary language can be found in everyday language (il suffit de regarder!). According to Luks, the key is to understand the metaphorical nature of all language--literary or quotidian. With carefully conceived activities that integrate communicative language teaching with literary analysis, Luks shows students how to play with conventional meanings in order to create new literary meanings. The concept of the literary in the everyday draws from several disciplines in an effort to help students develop "the deductive skills of a linguist, the honed intuitions of an anthropologist and the playful bent of a poet." LLDQ's reading and writing activities are sophisticated, playful and fun. Use an activity "as is" or edit it to suit your classroom. It's free! It's open! It's OER! LLDQ is published on Google docs with a Creative Commons license and thus, shareable, editable, easily adaptable for your own students. LLDQ is printable immediately in different formats: PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT. LLDQ is in final stages of copy-editing (beta); a print-on-demand textbook from lulu.com will be available by December 2013. Link to textbook files (Google docs): http://goo.gl/VurRFE (Best viewed in Google Chrome and once signed into Google Docs) Link to textbook files (PDFs): http://goo.gl/r05Odt COERLL. Le Littéraire dans le quotidien (BETA) soft launch. COERLL newsletter (info@coerll.utexas.edu, 22 Aug 2013).
Source: COERLL
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Title: 15 French Teachers You Should Follow in Pinterest
Body: From http://www.thefrenchcorner.net Do you use Pinterest? You can get some ideas from other French teachers there; here is a blog post recommending 15 that you should follow: http://www.thefrenchcorner.net/2013/08/15-french-teachers-you-should-follow-on.html
Source: The French Corner
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