Columbia LRC

Bate-Papo
2023-02-17 07:00 - 08:00, 2023-02-24 07:00 - 08:00, 2023-03-03 07:00 - 08:00 (America/New_York) | Casa Hispánica, 612 W 116th St, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Conversação em português? Join Bate-Papo, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the Latin American and Iberian Cultures Department.
Fridays from 12-1 pm at Casa Hispánica (612 W 116th St).

Café and Conversation
2023-02-17 08:00 - 09:00, 2023-02-21 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-02-24 08:00 - 09:00, 2023-02-28 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-03-03 08:00 - 09:00 | Buell Hall (La Maison Française), 515 W 116th Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Want to strengthen your French speaking skills? Join Café and Conversation, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the French Department.
*Elementary level: Fridays from 1-2 pm at Buell Hall (2nd floor); Intermediate & Advanced levels: Tuesdays from 5-6 pm at Buell Hall (2nd floor)

Indonesian Language Table
2023-02-17 09:00 - 10:00, 2023-02-24 09:00 - 10:00, 2023-03-03 09:00 - 10:00 | Room 352A (Language Resource Center), International Affairs Building, 420 W 118 Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Want to strengthen your Indonesian speaking skills? Join the Indonesian Language Table, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the Indonesian Language Program.
Fridays from 2–3 pm in Room 352A at the Language Resource Center (International Affairs Building)

Kaffeestunde 2023
2023-02-20 12:30 - 13:30 | Deutsches Haus, 420 W 116th Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Come take a break at Deutsches Haus and practice your German for 10, 30, or 60 minutes. All levels are welcome.* Coffee/Tea and sweet treats will be provided. We hope to see you there!
Biweekly on Mondays from 5:30-6:30 pm at Deutsches Haus (420 W 116th Street). *Also, if you are not in 1101, you might want to wait until mid-semester to visit.

Persian Circle
2023-02-21 08:00 - 09:00, 2023-02-28 08:00 - 09:00 | 207 Knox Hall, 606 W 122nd Street, New York, NJ, 10027, United States
Want to strengthen your Persian speaking skills? Join the Persian Circle, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the Persian Language Program.
Thursdays from 1-2 pm at 207 Knox Hall (606 W 122nd Street).

Arabic Circle
2023-02-21 13:10 - 14:30, 2023-02-28 13:10 - 14:30 | 208 Knox Hall, 606 W 122nd Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Want to strengthen your Arabic speaking skills? Join the Arabic Circle, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the Arabic Language Program.
Tuesdays from 6:10-7:30 pm at 208 Knox Hall (606 W 122nd St).

Cafè Català
2023-02-22 11:30 - 12:30, 2023-03-01 11:30 - 12:30 | Casa Hispánica, 612 W 116th St, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Want to strengthen your Catalan speaking skills? Join Cafè Català, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the Latin American and Iberian Cultures Department.
Thursdays from 4:30–5:30 pm at Casa Hispánica (612 W 116th St).

Czech and Slovak Conversation Hour
2023-02-22 12:30 - 14:00 | Café Amrita, 301 W 110th Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Want to strengthen your Czech and Slovak speaking skills? Join the Czech and Slovak Conversation Hour, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the Department of Slavic Languages.
Alternate Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00 from pm at Café Amrita, 301 W 110th Street (between Manhattan Ave and Frederick Douglass Circle): Feb 22nd, Mar 8th and 22nd, and Apr 5th.
For more information and for any questions relating to the Czech and Slovak conversation hour, please email cwh4@columbia.edu.

Café y Conversación
2023-02-23 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Casa Hispánica, 612 W 116th St, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Want to strengthen your Spanish speaking skills? Join Café y Conversación, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the Latin American and Iberian Cultures Department.
Thursdays from 4–5 pm at Casa Hispánica (612 W 116th St).

Russia Tea Gathering
2023-02-23 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 | 713 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States
If you wish to practice speaking Russian outside of the classroom, if you seek good company to discuss various themes and topics informally, and especially if you crave some strong (or herbal) tea with cookies, PLEASE JOIN US EVERY THURSDAY AT 5:00 PM IN THE READING ROOM (713 HAMILTON HALL).
*All levels of Russian are welcome! Questions? Please email Tatiana Alekseevna Mikhailova (tm3100@columbia.edu)

Vietnamese Conversation Hour with VSA
2023-02-24 07:00 - 08:00 | East Asian Language and Culture Lounge, 403 Kent Hall, 1140 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Want to strengthen your Vietnamese speaking skills? Join the Vietnamese Conversation Hour, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the Vietnamese Language Program.
Once a month on Fridays from 12-1 pm at 403 Kent Hall: 01/27; 02/24; 03/24; 04/21
If you need more information, please email Professor Chung P. Nguyen at cn2496@columbia.edu.

BCS Conversation Hour
2023-02-24 07:00 - 08:00, 2023-03-03 07:00 - 08:00 | Joe Coffee, 550 W 120th St, New York, New York, 10027, United States
Want to strengthen your Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian speaking skills? Join the BCS Conversation Hour, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian Language Program.
Fridays from 12-1 pm at Joe Coffee next to Pulitzer Hall (2950 Broadway Pulitzer Hall). If you have more questions, please email em3627@columbia.edu for more information.

Language Program Presentation | Addressing Diversity, Intersectionality, and Social Justice in the Polish-Language Classroom
2023-02-24 10:00 - 12:00 | columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/8472087081
This presentation reports on the results of our 2022 LRC Instructional Innovation Grant “Addressing Diversity, Intersectionality, and Social Justice in the Polish-Language Classroom”. A review of images and vocabulary of diversity in five currently available Polish-language textbooks is presented, with an eye to highlighting and elucidating underlying operative assumptions and ideologies about race, gender, class, ethnicity, and disability in them. In light of these findings, the talk will discuss the logistic, ethical, and cultural challenges US-based Polish-language instructors face in introducing more inclusive and equitable vocabularies into their classrooms. Finally, the presenters will speculate as to the potential role LCTLs such as Polish might play in contributing to the global conversation about diversity and intersectionality.

Friday, February 24th, 2023 at 3-5 pm
Moderated by: Simon Zuberek
Presented by: Christopher Caes and Claudia Kelley

**Event Link: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/8472087081

Kave Sho
2023-03-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Deutsches Haus, 420 W 116th Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States
YIDDISH KAVE-SHO
Yiddish Conversation Hour
Wed, March 1st, Tue, March 28th, and Tue, April 25th, from 6:00-7:00 pm at Deutsches Haus (420 W 116th Street)
All levels are welcome! Light nosh will be served. Free & open to the public.

Is Translanguaging a Threat or an Opportunity for Minority Languages?
2023-03-02 08:00 - 09:00 | NY
Is translanguaging a threat or an opportunity for minority languages? | Jasone Cenoz University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU
On March 2nd, the Yale University Center for Language Study will host a virtual discussion on the impact of Translanguaging on minority languages.* The discussion will delve into how the isolation of languages in the school curriculum has been regarded as positive for the survival of minority languages so that they do not get “contaminated” by majority languages. These ideas have been challenged in the last years and nowadays there is a strong trend to replace them with approaches that take multilingual speakers and the way they use their multilingual repertoire as a reference. In this presentation, translanguaging will be analyzed from the perspective of the use of minority languages in education in schools where majority and international languages are learned as well. There will be a specific focus on translanguaging in the context of multilingual education in the Basque Country where the minority language, Basque, is used as the main language of instruction. Translanguaging will be discussed both as a threat and an opportunity in the context of maintaining and promoting minority languages.

Jasone Cenoz is a Professor of Education at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and a member of the Advisory Board for the Organization of Ibero-American States (Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos). Her research focuses on multilingual education, bilingualism, and multilingualism. She has published extensively and has presented her work at conferences and seminars in the US, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Brunei, New Zealand Singapore, and most European countries. She has been the AILA publications coordinator and President of the International Association of Multilingualism.
*Event zoom link: the zoom link for the event will be shared shortly.

Korean Chat Club
2023-03-03 10:00 - 11:00 | East Asian Language and Culture Lounge, 403 Kent Hall, 1140 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Want to strengthen your Korean speaking skills? Join Korean Chat Club, a conversation practice opportunity offered by the Korean Language Program.
Once a month on Fridays at 3 pm at 403 Kent Hall: March 3rd from 3-4 pm; March 24th from 3:40-4:40 pm; and April 14th from 3-4 pm.
