It’s no secret that Americans place very little importance on foreign language learning in comparison to other countries. Whether or not this is a problem for our country comes with different answers, depending on who you talk to.
Sometimes, the language that shapes our identity the most isn’t our native language.
When I asked Alaunie how her college experience would be different if she hadn’t learned a second language, she paused for a second before giving a little laugh, as if to indicate the absurdity of the thought. “It’d be so sad!”
For many students, college is a period of time that’s filled with possibility, self-exploration, and more than a little uncertainty. As a senior at MSU, Grace Koeple may not be…
(Reposted from the LCTL Partnership News Site, originally published 2017) The first months of the project have been both invigorating and challenging. The project started in earnest with a Kickoff…
(Republished from the LCTL Partnership News site from early 2018) On December 7-8th, the Michigan State University team welcomed 27 participants from 11 institutions to the second pedagogical workshop hosted…
Bridget Hanchek started studying Japanese in high school because she was entranced by the idea of studying something that at the time was a total mystery to her.
Sjana had studied three languages before leaving for Costa Rica, but Spanish was not one of them.
Hannine was sitting in her first language class at MSU when she realized she’d made the wrong decision.
At MSU Languages, we usually tell the language stories of Michigan State students. This time, though, we’d like to share the story of the person behind the campaign: Luca Giupponi.