Emily Perez caught the travel bug young. When Perez’ mom played games with her as a child, she spoke German. Perez’ father told her stories of his time in France and Spain, hitchhiking cross-country with …
Languages
Study a language? Sí. Ja. Oui.
When James Ungaretti enrolled in his first-year courses, he loaded up on requirements for a computer sciences major. But having taken four years of Italian at his Oak Park, Illinois, high school, he thought, why …
Senior spends summer learning Portuguese and Brazilian culture
When Chandler Maas was accepted into the Summer Intensive Portuguese Institute (SIPI), she wasn’t sure what condensing an entire year of language study into an 8-week summer session would look like. However, the UW–Madison senior …
Students learn less common languages at intensive summer institute
The vibrant mission of teaching students less commonly taught languages such as Tibetan, Hindi, Urdu and others continues this summer at UW–Madison’s South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI), alongside a brand-new new mission — teaching …
UW–Madison celebrates U.S.-Indonesia relations with language contest and visit from dignitaries
Seventy years ago, the U.S. and Indonesia established diplomatic ties, creating what would be a long, fruitful relationship. Students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered to mark that relationship at a day of activities attended …
Alum Chávez-Moreno receiving Outstanding Dissertation Awards from two AERA SIGs
UW-Madison alumna Laura Chávez-Moreno is receiving Outstanding Dissertation Awards from two different American Educational Research Association (AERA) special interest groups (SIGs).
Posting to Brussels sprouts novel tech-French course
Quick: How do you say “firewall” or “database” in the variant of French spoken in Belgium? For employees of Epic, the Wisconsin health-care software giant that is building out its European beachhead, it’s necessary lingo.
ITALIAN STUDENTS TRANSLATE ITALIAN SONNETS IN HIGH-IMPACT PRACTICE CLASS
“I don’t like poetry because I don’t understand it.”
GRADUATE OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PHD PROGRAM COMMENDS ITS INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Sookyung Cho, who graduated from the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) PhD program at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, has returned to Madison for a research-focused sabbatical year.
Warming up to hygge
A traditional Danish concept is giving Americans the warm fuzzies. But a Scandinavian Studies professor warns we might be missing the true essence of hygge.