The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP), the only source of federal funding for K-12 foreign language programs, has been zeroed out in H.R.1 and the Senate Labor HHS and Education Appropriations bill. The elimination of this program, a $26.87 million cut, will have immediate effects on districts which have received grants and are in the ( Read more... )

So, teachers on my f-list. Tech people on my f-list. Language people on my f-list.

Take just a moment and bask in the interactive potential of combining Rosetta Stone with a SMART Board.

And you will see some of the awesome of my plans for my program next year.

I started Level 1 German last night ( Read more... )

And this time it's even one that would have an immediate use within my family: Hawai'ian.

So I've been working with an intro Greek textbook that is different from the one I used in college. This one was recommended to me by a bunch of different people as a good one to go back and try to refresh with, especially if one already knows Latin, because it draws a lot of comparisons between the two languages, and is actually written to help ( Read more... )

Is it a bad idea to work on Latin, French, Japanese, and Greek, all at the same time?

ETA: And American Sign Language?

I am currently scheduled to resume my formal studies of Japanese in a couple of weeks. :)

Okay, so I'm trying to put together a fun trivia contest as part of a fund-raiser for my program at school ( Read more... )

They just got me and thespooniest the Rosetta Stone Japanese package. Holy shit. *hyperventilates* *fangirls madly*
I can get by in basic Italian and have an unusually large vocabulary for a non-speaker in Spanish based on a half hour spent with each of those two Rosetta Stone packs. And now, we will have the Japanese one. Wow.

Next IFL class is the end of the ASL unit. It's a shame, it's one of my favorite units, but at the same time I'll be glad to see it go, because I've come to the conclusion that I will never be able to be fluent in any way in ASL, because after signing for about a half hour, my wrists and fingers hurt like all holy hell and my joints start to swell ( Read more... )