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Marie Tallent, Julia Gomes, and Ann Laudati are taking a self-study Swahili class through the Yamada Language Center.
Self-study plans
allow students
language options
Self-Study Language Program
offers foreign language classes
not regularly taught through the
University, such as Romanian
Aaron Shakra
Pulse Reporter
Students perusing the course cata
log each term are offered a wide
range of foreign language classes. But
inevitably, because of the breadth of
the whole wide world, there will al
ways be more dialects spoken than
classes offered.
The Yamada Language Center, lo
cated in 121 Pacific, offers a Self
Study Language Program that allows
students to receive credit by learning
foreign languages not taught through
the University. The program is now
in its sixth year and has been expand
ed to include 10 languages. This
term, the Center offers Arabic, Can
tonese, Greek, Hindi/Urdu, Por
tuguese, Romanian, Swahili, Thai
and Turkish.
Each course is led by a native
speaker of the language—not neces
sarily a professor or even a graduate
student. The teacher meets with stu
dents for lengths of time depending
on the number of credits they’re en
rolled for. Students register for the
course through the Department of
Linguistics and can choose between
one to three credits for each course.
Ruxandra Westra, a practicing
professional for the University’s Col
lege of Education, teaches the newly
added Romanian course. She went
over the basic colors, verbs, sen
tence structure and pronunciation
of the language.
“It’s very self-paced and based on
materials that are here. It’s for the do
it-yourself type of person,” Westra
said. “Most of it is taught orally, not
with grammar. We’re just going to an
swer questions and talk, talk, talk.”
Drew Herron, a student in the Ro
manian course, is an international
studies major and is also registered
in an Arabic self-study course. He
spent time in Romania this summer
and said that learning another
tongue helps him better understand
that culture.
“When you compare things to an
other language, it makes more sense
to you,” Herron said.
Aashim Tyagi, who leads a self
study Hindu course, expressed simi
lar sentiments.
“It’s difficult to learn another lan
guage out of the blue. You get to
meet people, it’s fun and challeng
ing, and it breaks language and cul
tural barriers,” Tyagi said.
Most classes meet in the Yamada
Center’s lounge. At the end of a term,
students from all self-study language
courses come together for a group
performance—which doubles as the
class final.
The Yarhada Center’s lounge is
also the location for its foreign film
series, which runs throughout the
school year, showing every Tuesday
at 7 p.m.
A full list of services the Yamada
Center offers is available on its Web
site at babel.uoregon.edu.
Contact the Pulse reporter
at aaronshakra@dailyemerald.com
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