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From https://blogs.loc.gov/international-collections/2018/10/archive-of-hispanic-literature-launches-new-online-recordings/

Archive of Hispanic Literature launches new online recordings
by Anchi Hoh
October 11, 2018

The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape is an historic collection of close to 800 audio recordings of Luso-Hispanic writers. Since its inception in 1943, curators in the Hispanic Division have continued expanding on this project by recording, in the Library’s recording lab and abroad, some of the most important writers and poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. Our efforts to digitize this collection are ongoing, and with the 2018 launch, there are now 200 recordings available via online streaming.

This launch includes recordings from the 1950s onward, with many sessions recorded in the past five years. Reflecting the regions’ immense rich cultural and linguistic diversity, the list includes the literatures of nations such as Haiti, Cuba, Spain, Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico, Chile, Argentina, and more. It also includes, for the very first time, recordings of works in indigenous languages, such as the recording of Mexican scholar Ángel María Garibay (1892-1967) who reads Aztec poetry in Nahuatl and Spanish; Mexican writer Andrés Henestrosa (1906-2008) who reads works in Zapotec, a pre-Columbian language from Oaxaca, Mexico; and poet Andrés Alencastre (1909-1984) who reads verses in Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire. Another linguistic gem included in this release is a reading by Spanish writer Unai Elorriaga (1973- ) in Basque or “Euskara,” a Pre-Indo-European language spoken in northern Spain.

Read the full article for a complete list of newly available recordings: https://blogs.loc.gov/international-collections/2018/10/archive-of-hispanic-literature-launches-new-online-recordings/

From https://spanishmama.com/

In this article you and your students can read about different versions of the song “Happy Birthday” in Spanish. The article also contains YouTube links to the different versions of the Spanish birthday song that you can watch and listen to. 

For more information visit: https://spanishmama.com/happy-birthday-songs-in-spanish/

From https://www.pri.org/programs/world-words

In this podcast listen to Patrick Cox talk to Lynne Murphy, an American linguist, and her British husband and their daughter. They talk about the funny misunderstandings this family experienced due to the differences between American and British English. 

To listen to podcast visit: https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-10-10/when-american-says-sure-brit-does-it-mean-yes-or-no

From https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/

Applications for the summer 2019 Indiana University Language Workshop are being accepted. Since 1950, the Language Workshop has enabled thousands of students and professionals to intensively study languages critical to academic research, economic development, human rights, diplomacy, national security, cultural exchange, scientific advancement, and other global issues. The workshops are open to students (high school 16 and older, graduate, and undergraduate) as well as non-students. Language taught include Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, German, Haitian Creole, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Pashto, Persian, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Uzbek. The 2019 workshops will take place June 3 through July 28 (with a few exceptions; check details for specific languages). These courses are equivalent to two semesters of language instruction at the college level. 

Applications are due May 7, 2019; numerous scholarships are available with deadlines in January and February 2019.

For full details, visit the Language Workshop website at https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/index.html

From https://weteachlang.com

In episode 73 of the We Teach Languages podcast series, Dorie Conlon Perugini interviews Dr. Michael Byram, Professor Emeritus in the School of Education at Durham University and one of the most influential voices in the study of intercultural competence in language education. Dorie and Mike discuss Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) and how to achieve it in language classrooms.

Listen to this episode at https://weteachlang.com/2018/10/05/ep-73-with-michael-byram/
A guide for the episode is available at https://weteachlang.com/2018/10/18/guide73/

Read a two-part series from InterCom about developing intercultural communicative competence in the world language classroom and beyond by Dr. Byram and Manuela Wagner: http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/21228 and http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/21294

From http://misclaseslocas.blogspot.com

Many teachers are familiar with different kinds of "find someone who" activities for the interpersonal mode: bingo, surveys, and so on. In this blog post, Allison Wienhold describes several different configurations of students for a less chaotic class during implementation of these types of activities: http://misclaseslocas.blogspot.com/2018/10/find-someone-who-mix-up-interpersonal.html