Great Volunteer Opportunities This Fall at the MACC

            An opportunity to practice and experience a foreign language is through the participation in cultural events. Foreign language students internalize a language and their study when they take the initiative and immerse themselves in its culture(s). Here are a few fun opportunities to immerse in the Spanish culture by [...]

Energetic Experience in Learning a Foreign Language

FOX Deportes Airing the 2012 UEFA Champions League Semi-Finals LIVE WHAT: FOX Deportes is proud to bring soccer aficionados one of the most popular sport events worldwide–the UEFA Champions League semifinals. The semifinals will air exclusively LIVE in Spanish on FOX Deportes starting on April 24th at 2:00pm EST with Barcelona vs. Chelsea in Spain. [...]

The Taíno Experience

I came into foreign language teaching by way of need. As a graduate student working on a Master’s degree in Spanish literature & linguistics, I was awarded an assistantship that necessitated the teaching of Spanish 101, 102, and their accompanied labs. Hijole! Not in my plans. To stand in front of a class, full of [...]

Book Review | Just Like Us, The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age In America by Helen Thorpe

A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Just Like Us is their story… and the story of many others. This brilliant, fast-paced work of [...]