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Welcome to the Yamada Language Center!

We are the University's service and technology center for language teaching and learning.

 

Besides supporting teaching efforts in Romance Languages, East Asian Languages, German and Scandinavian, REESC, and the American English Institute, we're also the home for the World Languages Academy and the Selfstudy Language Program, two innovative programs focused on expanding opportunities for the study of "less commonly taught languages" at UO.

Let us help you make your language teaching/learning more meaningful and productive.

 

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving.
There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Francesco Petrarch, 14th c. Italian Poet

- YLC Staff

New & Noteworthy
  • FLIS XXXII is Friday, April 30. Keynote speaker is International Studies Professor, Kathie Carpenter. More than 100 other presentations on topics of language, culture, and the arts are scheduled from 9:00 - 3:00 for our high school visitors. See a preview of this year's exciting program. Early registration deadline is April 2.
  • The Romance Languages Department is sponsoring a symposium entitled Francesco Petrarca: From Manuscript To Digital Culture on April 3 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Leading Petrarch scholars from the U.S. and Italy will join UO faculty and graduate students in presentations, colloquia, and music. See the symposium website for more information.
  • ANVILL, YLC's course authoring tool for language teachers, will be the topic of two upcoming workshops, one at FLIS on April 30, in Eugene, and one virtual on March 30 on Learn Central. The focus of both will be designing effective online spoken language tasks using, TCast.
  • Thinking of travelling or studying abroad this summer? Besides the 7 regular languages offered in the WLA, there are 11 more possibilities in the SSLP: Arabic (including a class focused on dialects), Haitian Creole, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Wolof. Check out the Spring LT 199 offerings in the Class Schedule.

  • YLC will be open 8-5 M-Th and 8-3 F during Finals Week. We will be closed during Spring Break and and we will re-open on Monday, March 29 at 8 a.m.

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