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Widen Your World: Learn a Language!
Ballantine Hall
Saturday, March 23, 2013

8:30 am - 4:00 pm
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With support from the new School for Global and International Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences and various language programs at IU, the Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment (CeLTIE) is hosting the third World Language Festival (WLF) at the IU Bloomington campus. Offering over 75 languages and 80 overseas study programs, IUB is committed to language study and global culture. This year’s theme is “Widen Your World: Learn a Foreign Language.”
WLF aims to celebrate the diverse cultures and languages of our world and to showcase the outstanding instruction and language resources at IUB. Exhibits, presentations and hands-on workshops covering a wide range of topics and interest will be featured. Students will have the opportunity to explore cultures and languages and to use their foreign language skills as well as acquire new ones, especially those of the less-commonly-taught languages. Educators and parents will be able to network with colleagues from around the state and attend training sessions offered by IU language faculty. Below is a sample list of WLF 2013 presentations:
  • Uyghur Game: Five Rocks
  • Tibetan films, language, and culture
  • Bollywood Music
  • Japanese Food and Culture: What is Pan?
  • Small Talk in the Land of Angry Birds (i.e., Finland)
  • Land of Chinggis Khan
  • Chinese Characters and Landscape Painting
  • Some Japanese Traditional Sport
  • A Crash Course in Russian
The event is free but everybody must have a ticket.  Tickets are available online. Information about the event and signup for tickets at our website.  The next WLF will be in the spring of 2015 so embrace the opportunity now! Want to become a volunteer for this event? we are looking for 15-20 energetic volunteers who:
  • are outgoing and enthusiastic
  • can volunteer for the entire day
  • are genuinely interested in promoting the study of foreign languages

Each volunteer will receive a free 2013 World Language Festival t-shirt.  Please visit our volunteer sign-up page to fill out an easy application form. Once we receive the application, we will do our best to arrange the schedule based on your preferences and our needs.

Sponsors for WLF 2013
  • School of Global and International
  • Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Dhar India Studies
  • East Asian Studies Center
  • Department of French and Italian
  • Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  • Department of Second Language Studies
  • Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
  • East Asian Languages & Culture
  • Germanic Studies
  • West European Studies
  • IU Office of Admissions
Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment (CeLTIE)
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