Photo Credit: Ma'ayan Plaut
Justin and Barbara work through the summer, yes they do, unless they happen to be on vacation, at a meeting or trying to escape the CILC arctic north air conditioning system. (see above)
The lab is closed to the public, but B and J are available to help faculty with projects and planning for the upcoming term on an as-needed basis. Please contact us!
The best way to do so is via email: first name (dot) last name AT oberlin (dot) edu
Important Upcoming dates:
~Online placement tests in Spanish, French, Russian, German and Japanese for incoming first year students ONLY available July 15th - August 15th here Exams available again in the CILC on August 26th (1-5 p.m.). Placement exams available for ALL students during add / drop period.
~ ACCUPLACER exams (for International Students): Monday, August 24th
~Language Technology Boot Camp: (TWO DAYS) Tuesday, August 18th (12-5) & Wednesday, August 19th (10-3) in the CILC for Language TAs and all Language faculty. A special invitation has been extended to our language colleagues at Oberlin High School and the IB program. Please rsvp to Barbara by July 1.
~ We re-open our doors to the public on August 31st: The first day of classes… come and visit us!
What a bittersweet time, the end of the semester! Students will be leaving for summer fun and sunshine, but must endure more than three months without the language lab. To make this parting easier, the language lab is sloughing off its boring, routine hours for a thrilling, edge-of-your seat schedule of epic proportions for the final week.
Reading period: Saturday 5/9 - Monday 5/11
Open 12 noon - 12 midnight
Finals week: Tuedsay 5/12 - Friday 5/15
Open 9AM - 5PM
While most of us here on campus will be dutifully finiishing finals or packing up to go home, there is something truly breathtaking happening in May in Moscow. I am referring, of course, the finals of the Eurovision 2009 Song Contest that will be happening on May 16 2009.
The CILC will be hosting a Eurovision Finals Viewing in Peters 327 on Saturday May 16. Time to be announced. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, check out the conversations that are happening on the Ethnomusicology 210 blog about Eurovision. Feel free to comment here, or there.
Recently I was sent to China to be a part of a UNESCO Experts Meeting on the use of technology in the teaching of languages.
While there, I got a chance to cross paths with David Petrick ‘10 and current student of the Associate Colleges in China program in Beijing. Below is a photo from our trip to the Great Wall.
Here is a video taken with one of our Flip video cameras of a restaurant David frequents while there. While not what we might consider “traditional” Chinese food, the food seemed more middle eastern, and yes it was yummy. David said it was considered “Muslim” food there. Joining us were two women from the UNESCO group, Heloisa Collins (in red) from Brazil and Emerita Bañados from Chile.
Later, Heloisa, Emerita and I contracted a tour guide to show us around the Forbidden City in Beijing. Meet Ma Sa. She was a fireball of energy, facts, figures..and amazing English ability.
PS Dontcha just love the sight of the tour groups that are forced to wear the same bright colored hats so they can be found (and find each other) in the throngs of humanity that make up Beijing?
From my last night in Beijing, and during the evening ritual of when the military lowers the National Flag in Tiananmen Square
–Barbara
Spring has sprung…the buzzards have returned to Hinckley (Ohio), the swallows are soon to return to Capistrano and our feathered Flaubert is in love. Click on the link below to see.