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Title: Lead with Languages Features Short Interviews of People about their Language Study
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From https://www.leadwithlanguages.org
The advocacy campaign Lead with Languages features an "Ask Away" series in which language learners, teachers, and professionals answer five questions about the role language plays in their personal and professional lives. Here are a few recent additions:
JT, a biology major at Rutgers University, talks about learning Spanish: https://www.leadwithlanguages.org/2019/02/21/ask-away-5-questions-rutgers-biology-major-learning-spanish/
Olivia, a Health Promotions major at the University of Texas, talks about learning ASL: https://www.leadwithlanguages.org/2019/02/14/ask-away-5-questions-ut-junior-using-asl-off-field/
Logan, a Cryptologic Linguist for the United States Marine Corps, talks about his language learning history: https://www.leadwithlanguages.org/2019/02/07/ask-away-5-questions-marine-corps-cryptologic-linguist-learning-pashto/
Source: Lead with Languages
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Title: New Podcast: You Can Learn Chinese
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From http://youcanlearnchinese.mandarincompanion.com/
Hosts Jared Turner and John Pasden bring you this new podcast series to discuss everything learning Chinese. As John Pasden says in a separate post (https://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2019/02/12/you-can-learn-chinese-podcast), "This podcast is about learning Chinese; it doesn’t teach Chinese. And while it may sound like it’s for beginners, learners of all levels should get something out of it. As the name suggests, it’s also more motivational and conceptual than technical. For example, rather than talking about how to set up Pleco or Anki for optimal flashcard review sessions, we might talk about how flashcards can be a useful tool but are not a one-size-fits-all method, and you can learn Chinese without going full-on flashcard crazy."
Access the podcast episodes (there are three as of this writing) at http://youcanlearnchinese.mandarincompanion.com/
Source: You Can Learn Chinese
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Title: Japan Recognizes Ainu
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From https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/02/19/japan-recognizes-ainu/
Japan Recognizes Ainu
February 19, 2019
The Japanese government has endorsed a bill to officially recognize the Ainu ethnic minority as an indigenous people of Japan for the first time and calls for “the creation of a society in which they can take pride in their heritage.” However, the move may have come too late to save the Ainu language, now spoken by only a handful of people.
The bill includes a subsidy program for regional revitalization to help local authorities implement projects to promote Ainu culture. It also calls for deregulation to make it easier for the Ainu people to gather wood in state-owned forests and catch salmon in local rivers, as part of efforts to help them preserve their cultural traditions.
...The bill still needs to be passed by the Diet (Japan’s legislature) which will likely happen during the current session.
...Ainu is a language isolate, unrelated to any other language, spoken only on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido by less than a hundred people. It was once spoken in the Kurile Islands, the northern part of Honshu and the southern half of Sakhalin, which is now part of Russia.
Read the full article at https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/02/19/japan-recognizes-ainu/
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Post Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award
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From http://www.actr.org/post-secondary-russian-scholar-laureate-award-psrsla.html
The ACTR Post Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award (PSRSLA) is a free program offered to U.S. Russian language departments and programs. Organized under the auspices of the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), the PSRSLA seeks to provide national recognition for our outstanding junior and senior university-level students -- those students who best embody an enthusiasm for and love of things Russian. Individual Russian departments and programs, not ACTR, decide which of their students are most deserving of this award. All laureates receive ACTR certificates and letters.
Nomination period: January 1st – February 28.
For full details, go to http://www.actr.org/post-secondary-russian-scholar-laureate-award-psrsla.html
Source: ACTR
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Title: Snow for the Ancient Greeks
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From https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu
Here at CASLS headquarters in Oregon, our daffodils are just starting to bloom. However, we are aware that people in other parts of the country have experienced a seemingly endless, snowy winter. You and your students can prepare a cup of hot cocoa and enjoy this blog post by Hélène Emeriaud, Janet Ozsolak, and Sarah Scott exploring snow in Ancient Greek literature: https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/?p=42866
Source: Kosmos Society
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Title: Videos about Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome
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Open Culture has recently highlighted three videos from 2017 of interest to teachers of classical languages.
First, here is a whirlwind (20-minute) history of Ancient Greece: http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/the-history-of-ancient-greece-in-18-minutes.html
Second, here is a similar whirlwind history of Ancient Rome: http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/the-history-of-ancient-rome-in-20-minutes-a-primer-narrated-by-brian-cox.html
And finally, here is a 30-minute reconstruction of Ancient Rome, with graphics superimposed in modern images of the city: http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/an-animated-reconstruction-of-ancient-rome.html
Source: Open Culture
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Title: Monet Exhibition in California and Texas
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From https://france-amerique.com/en/monet-the-late-years/
An exhibition opening on February 16 at San Francisco’s De Young Museum focuses on the last years, and the last works, of French painter Claude Monet, an icon of Impressionism and a pioneer of abstractionism.
The exhibition brings together some 60 paintings, including 20 from Paris’s Musée Marmottan Monet. A number of the pieces have never before been exhibited in the United States. Beyond emphasizing Monet’s stature as a great Impressionist, the show invites viewers to consider his importance as a pioneer of abstraction.
The exhibition will be showing in the De Young Museum in San Francisco, California, February 16 through May 27. It will be in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, June 16 through September 15.
For more information, go to https://france-amerique.com/en/monet-the-late-years/
Source: France-Amérique
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Title: Ideas for Spanish Club
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A few years ago (https://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/22496) we noted a post in Secondary Spanish Space with ideas for Spanish Club activities. In a recent post, Catharyn shares another dozen or so ideas: https://www.secondaryspanishspace.com/2019/02/even-more-ideas-for-spanish-club.html
Source: Secondary Spanish Space
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Title: Spanish Tongue Twisters
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From https://www.spanishplayground.net
Get ideas for how to use tongue twisters with Spanish learners, and also how to find appropriate tongue twisters, in this blog post: https://www.spanishplayground.net/spanish-tongue-twisters-kids/
Source: Spanish Playground
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Title: Copa América Brasil 2019 Spanish Activity
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From https://zachary-jones.com
Soccer fans, the American Cup tournament will happen in Brazil this summer. Visit the official site here: http://copaamerica.com/es/
Thanks to Zambombazo, here's an activity to practice talking about schedules and countries using an authentic resource: the schedule for the event.
Access the activity and supporting resources at https://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/sorteo-de-preguntas-copa-america-brasil-2019/
Source: Zambombazo
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