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The College of DuPage Language Department and French Club (La Connexion Française), in collaboration with community members from the Alliance Française of DuPage, recently presented "Célébration de la Francophonie" at the College’s Glen Ellyn campus. The multicultural event featured displays on the customs of Francophone countries and treats from French-speaking countries, including Belgium, Congo, Switzerland, France, Haiti and Cameroon. In addition, participants had their “passports” stamped in each location and enjoyed student presentations and international folk dance.
Hornby Library. July 2014. File Reference: DSC01868.jpg
Photo by Kirsten Smith.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
On October 29, English Language Fellow Kimberly Chilmonik talked with a group of our patrons about the origin of the holiday and described how it is celebrated in the United States.
She also led a Halloween theme vocabulary activities and finish the session with a mummy wrap competition.
For more information about the IRC, click here.
[U.S. Embassy photo by Un Yarat]
The first nation Canada.
To me the aboriginal characters seems like a mixture of Korean, Japanese and Chinese. It does not sound like any of these languages.Canadian aboriginal language sounds like Turkmen language in Turkmenistan.
Mawusi is an original, hand-made knitted doll, inspired by the Ewe people of Ghana, Benin, Togo and Nigeria. Her name means "In God's Hands" in the Ewe language. She is approximately 8 inches tall, knit of 100% bamboo yarn, and stuffed with corn fiberfill. When she is completed, she will be wearing a 100% bamboo, handwoven traditional dress, inspired by kente cloth.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The friendly inter-service quarterly running competition known as the Commander's Cup was held at Presidio's Soldier Field on July 21. The format was altered from men and women teams running as a group to a relay-style race. The Army women's team and Marines men's team each came in first with the Marine Corps Detachment Presidio of Monterey claiming the Commander's Cup for the best combined time. After the race, service members and families were treated to a fantastic show courtesy of Army Entertainment. The United We Band show featured comedian Ruperto Vanderpool, DJ Jena Red, and headliners Liquid Blue, named "America's Best Dance Band" at the National Music Awards.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
Routes into Languages
National Final of the 2016 Spelling Bee competition.
MedRus, Aberystwyth University
July 05 2016
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International Plaza-Rare languages booth area
The mustang carries a notecard with URLs to audio sites.
Notecard by Willow Shenlin
Monday, October 6, 2014
Penn's Art and Culture leaders came together at ICA to welcome the Class of 2018 and provide information about upcoming exhibitions, programs, and opportunities for undergraduates.
Participants: Platt Student Performing Arts House, Penn Art & Culture Initiative, (ICA) Institute of Contemporary Art, Penn Museum, Kelly Writers House, Arthur Ross Gallery, Annenberg Center Live, WXPN, Penn Libraries, Penn Humanities Forum, Penn Language Center, Environmental Humanities Initiative, Department of Music, Music Performance Program, Department of the History of Art, Theatre Arts Program, Visual Studies Program, Cinema Studies Program, Department of English, Creative Writing Program, and the Undergraduate Fine Arts Department.
Organized by Platt Student Performing Arts House, Penn Art and Culture Initiative, and ICA.
Approximately, 30-40 English language teachers and various university students attended the Bay Linx “Ideas for a New Semester” Conference in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil on March 12-13, 2015 organized by Peter Rodriguez Fernandez from First Class Consultoria and CEL/NEL in Rio Branco. Sr. English Language Fellow for Rio de Janeiro, Efraín Díaz, delivered two plenary speeches during the two day conference, along with a series of 5 rotating workshops each with Peter focusing on preparing English teachers with methodologies, strategies, techniques and activities for teaching English using the Communicative Approach. The participants were very enthusiastic and participatory and the workshops were well received by them and their administrators
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Joint Service Color Guard and service marching units helped Monterey residents and visitors celebrate Independence Day by participating in the City of Monterey's 4th of July parade in downtown Monterey, July 4.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - For the third consecutive year, service members from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Coast Guard Station Monterey represented the military at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am by tending a special pin adorned with the United States Flag at Pebble Beach's 15th hole. The 15th hole was also the location of the Support Our Troops tent that provided free food, drink and other amenities to service members in attendance during the final three days of the tournament.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
A screen grab from camera-wiki.org's Google Analytics page, showing browser language settings for site visitors. March 2012.
February 22, 2008 - Rachel and Liz went to Montserrat and Claudia had class all day, so I went to the Picasso Museum, had lunch in the sunshine near the port, then took a long walk along the beach. I had coffee in the Parc de la Ciutadella, then spent hours on a crazy adventure to find a corkscrew for Claudia (above).
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center mascot Lingo has his eye on the prize, in this case the DLIFLC Commander's Cup. Air Force won by a close margin over the Army at the Fall 2016 iteration of the DLIFLC Commandant's Cup relay race held at Presidio's Price Fitness Center Field, June 15.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
Hilly, volcanic Darnley Island (or Erub in the language of the Meriam Mir peoples) was the place where the first Christian service in Torres Strait (between the Australian continent and Papua New Guinea), and a bamboo church was the first building. This Romanesque style building 10-15 metres from Badog Beach went up about 1890, timber framing, coral cement, painted white, and a red corrugated asbestos cement (fibro) roof. The original nave was added to by aisles on each side. Corner and side buttresses exist.
The earliest Europeans to the island would have been beche-de-mer and pearl seekers.
The population of the island is about 350.
The Coming of the Light festival is centred annually on this building, commemorating the arrival of missionaries in Torres Strait.
A sign of the Government Code stating English is the official language of Guam. Photo taken by Rene Mahone in the 1970s and courtesy of the Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC).
This picture is of the foreign language laboratory at the Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire, ca. 1970. Before the computer age, language students had to contend with large tape players, microphones, and headphones to record or listen to the language being learned. This photograph was taken during the time that the foreign language department was housed in a building at the center of campus, part of which had been the heating plant in the earlier days of the school.
Ever since the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire opened its doors in 1916 as the Eau Claire State Normal School, technology has played an important role in the education of generations of students. This album illustrates how technology has changed, from typewriters to computers, from records to reel-to-reel tape, and everything in between.
Source: Archives Series 279 (University Archives Photograph Collection), Box 13, Folder 11.
File Name: AS279.013.011.002
The Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Ţūlūn (Arabic: مسجد أحمد بن طولون) is located in Cairo, Egypt. It is arguably the oldest mosque in the city surviving in its original form, and is the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area.
The mosque was commissioned by Ahmad ibn Ţūlūn, the Abbassid governor of Egypt from 868–884 whose rule was characterized by de facto independence. The historian al-Maqrizi lists the mosque's construction start date as 876 AD[1], and the mosque's original inscription slab identifies the date of completion as 265 AH, or 879 AD.
The mosque was constructed on a small hill called Gebel Yashkur, "The Hill of Thanksgiving." One local legend says that it is here that Noah's Ark came to rest after the Deluge, instead of at Mount Ararat.[2]
The grand ceremonial mosque was intended as the focal point of Ibn Ţūlūn's capital, al-Qatta'i, which served as the center of administration for the Tulunid dynasty. The mosque originally was backed by ibn Ţūlūn's palace, and a door adjacent to the minbar allowed him direct entry to the mosque. Al-Qatta'i was razed in the early 10th century, AD, and the mosque is the only surviving structure. The mosque was constructed in the Samarran style common with Abbassid constructions. The mosque is constructed around a courtyard, with one covered hall on each of the four sides, the largest being on the side of the qibla, or direction to Mecca. The original mosque had its ablution fountain (sabil) in the area between the inner and outer walls. A distinctive sabil with a high drum dome was added in the central courtyard at the end of the thirteenth century by the Sultan Lajīn.
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Students from 30 high schools and their teacher gathered Saturday, March 4, 2017 at Union South on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the fifth annual Wisconsin Global Youth Summit.
The event was sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and UW-Madison's Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS), Language Institute, and International Reach (International Student Services).
Activities for students included small group discussions on what it means to be a global citizen, conversations with international students, and introductory lessons in a variety of world languages. The program also includes performances of Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art, and Okinawan taiko drumming.
Teachers participated in peer-led sessions that focused on Wisconsin's Global Education Achievement Certificate.
Participating high schools were: Amery, Appleton Area, Arrowhead UHS, Bonduel, Cedarburg, Cuba City, De Forest Area, Gibraltar Area, Grantsburg, Howard-Suamico, Janesville, Johnson Creek, Kettle Moraine, Lake Mills Area, Madison Metropolitan, Oconomowoc Area, Oregon, Pewaukee, Plymouth Joint, Pulaski Community, Shorewood, Slinger, South Milwaukee, Southern Door County, Tomah Area, Two Rivers Public, Watertown Unified, Wausau, Wausaukee, and Wauwatosa.
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cool oral language activity. Children have 'microphone' and 'question mark' has 5w's etc Q's written around it