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The Year of Languages in Kentucky - If you were following the NCAA tournament this spring and listened to the UK basketball games on the radio you may have noticed a familiar voice and topic during half-time. The "UK at the half" segment during the March 27th UK-Michigan State game featured Festival Director and UK German professor, Jeff Rogers, talking about the KWLA Language Festival and the "The Year of Languages". This radio feature aired on the UK radio network, which is made up of 75 stations in 49 markets (including Lexington, Louisville and Cincinnati), with an estimated listening audience of more than half million per game. To listen to the radio feature click here. (choose the 3/27, Game 4 link)
Year of Languages Seeks to Broaden Cultural Horizons by Kristin Bagnato, Freelance writer
SLCC Joins National Effort to Observe the Year of Languages (PDF)
Mason Expands Arabic Language Program - from The Daily Mason Gazzette Online, George Mason University
Parents push for foreign language classes from the Burlington Free Press.
Wolfowitz Approves Plan To Improve DOD’s Foreign Language Skills from Inside the Pentagon.
A Year for Languages
As part of a national effort to bring more attention to language learning, districts are getting creative in their celebrations - from District Administration: The Magazine for K-12 Education Leaders
Celebrate: Learn Another Language - by David Jahner, Foreign Language Coordinator, Gwinnett County Public Schools
Language classes translate to success: Educators promote programs in effort to foster sharing of cultures and cross-education - By KATE GURNETT, Staff writer of timesunion.com
--More related stories from timesunion.com
Ambushed: Volunteers test OSU’s foreign language skills from The Daily O'Collegian - www.ocolly.com
Does anybody really know quelle heure est-il? Pittsburgh is the latest victim of a "Language Ambush" Pop Quiz!, Post-gazette.com
Wanted: Language and Cultural Competence, by Elizabeth Kellar. International City/County Management Association, PM Magazine
St. Louis Community College Joins National Effort to Observe The Year of Languages
"Two offer sidewalk lesson that's in German, Spanish" by Emily Gersema (December 28, 2004) Omaha (NE) World-Herald
"Learning from other cultures" by Jennifer Moody (November 16, 2004) Albany (OR) Democrat-Herald
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