Welcome to the

Language Center

You can’t be a global citizen if you’re monolingual … It’s incredibly narrow-minded to think that everybody’s going to speak English.

Mitchell Greenberg, Cornell University

Welcome to the

Language Center

You can’t be a global citizen if you’re monolingual … It’s incredibly narrow-minded to think that everybody’s going to speak English.

Mitchell Greenberg, Cornell University

Welcome to the

Language Center

You can’t be a global citizen if you’re monolingual … It’s incredibly narrow-minded to think that everybody’s going to speak English.

Mitchell Greenberg, Cornell University

Welcome to the

Language Center

You can’t be a global citizen if you’re monolingual … It’s incredibly narrow-minded to think that everybody’s going to speak English.

Mitchell Greenberg, Cornell University

Welcome to the

Language Center

You can’t be a global citizen if you’re monolingual … It’s incredibly narrow-minded to think that everybody’s going to speak English.

Mitchell Greenberg, Cornell University

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Language Tutoring

The Language Center is happy to provide free language tutoring to students enrolled in language classes on campus. Tutoring, conversation practice, and other language related support is available for ASL, Chinese, Filipino, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

Tutoring Schedule

Individual & Group Learning

The Center strives to be a welcoming space to practice listening and speaking your new language. You can practice with classmates, other students studying your target language, native speakers, or our language tutors. While the Center is not able to provide quite study areas we do have many areas available for small group discussion and collaborative learning. Your campus group is also welcome to reserve one of our lab spaces for meetings or activities.

Center Hours
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Collaborative Classroom Space

The Language Center has several spaces designed for collaborative teaching and learning. Room 305 is a computer lab and discussion space containing 24 student computing stations. Room 306 is a flexible space partitioned by a sliding wall providing workspaces accommodating 20-44 students. The small group discussion area in Room 306C can be reserved for group discussion, oral practice, or as an open interview space. The video conferencing space in Room 316 seats up to 12 people. It is ideal for video conferencing, discussion groups, small classes and student clubs

Today's Reservations
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Study Abroad

Use the language skills you have worked so hard to obtain--travel abroad! Ask us about destinations and opportunities for travel and study abroad. We can help you connect with other CSU and campus resources.

More Information

All students are welcome to use the Language Center anytime, however priority will be given to students enrolled in foreign language courses.

Center Hours

Monday to Thursday 9:00am-5:00pm
Friday 9:00am-noon
Saturday & Sunday closed

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Foreign Language Tutoring

The Language Center is happy to provide free language tutoring. Meet some of our language tutors:

Jeff Winters began studying Mandarin Chinese over thirty years ago and has been teaching the language and culture for the last twenty years. Professor Winters loves to travel abroad particularly in East Asia. He has lived, studied and worked in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He is passionate about all things Chinese and eager to exchange learning strategies and experiences.

Jeff
Chinese

Hello! My name is Mutsumi Nobuhara, and I am a Japanese tutor at the Language Lab. I was born and raised in Japan. I am working on my M.A. degree in Asian and Asian American Studies with an emphasis on Japanese Language and Pedagogy. Feel free to talk to me in the lab!

Mutsumi
Japanese

こんにちは。This is Akane Suzuki and I was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Currently I am earning my M.A. degree in Asian and Asian American Studies with emphasis in Japanese Language and Pedagogy. I look forward to meeting with you and helping you achieve your academic goals!

Akane
Japanese
Tutoring, conversation practice, and other language related support is available for ASL, Chinese, Filipino, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

Tutoring Schedule

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Jan 21 - Jan 25
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Monday

Jan 21, 2019
  • No tutors scheduled for today.

Tuesday

Jan 22, 2019
  • 9-11:30am Chinese (Jeff)
  • 10am-12pm Italian, Spanish (Breanna)
  • 12-2pm German (Luke)
  • 1-3pm Spanish (Carlos)
  • 2-4pm Japanese (Mutsumi)
  • 3-5pm Chinese, Korean (Huiyin)

Wednesday

Jan 23, 2019
  • 9-11am Filipino (Koreen)
  • 9-11:30am French (Tyler)
  • 11:30am-2pm French, Italian (Joanna)
  • 12-3pm Japanese (Akane)
  • 2:45-4:45pm Chinese, Korean (Huiyin)

Thursday

Jan 24, 2019
  • 9-11:30am Chinese (Jeff)
  • 10am-12pm Italian, Spanish (Breanna)
  • 11am-12pm Japanese (Mutsumi)
  • 12-2pm German (Luke)
  • 1-3pm ASL (Emily)
  • 2-4pm Japanese (Mutsumi)

Friday

Jan 25, 2019
  • 9am-12pm Chinese (Jeff)

This is the info about who and how to make reservations.

Reservation Schedule

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 Reservations by Month
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Tuesday

Jan 22, 2019
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➤  First Day of Classes Spring 2019
➤  11am-12:20pm (305)   ASLD212 - Staff
➤  12:30-1:50pm (305)   JAPN471 - Staff
➤  2-3:20pm (305)   JAPN422 - Staff
➤  4-6:20pm (305)   ASLD312 - Staff
➤  4-6:20pm (306A)   ASLD412 - Staff
➤  6:30-8:50pm (305)   ASLD305 - Staff

Weekly Reservations

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Reservations for the week of Jan 20 - Jan 26.
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305
306A
306B
306C
316
21
305
306A
306B
306C
316
22
305
306A
306B
306C
316
First Day of Classes Spring 2019
23
305
306A
306B
306C
316
24
305
306A
306B
306C
316
25
305
306A
306B
306C
316
26
305
306A
306B
306C
316