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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Taipei 101: Taipei, Taiwan

View of the Hsinyi District of Taipei from the Taipei 101 building.

Study in Taiwan

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

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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:

My name is Breanna Campos and I am an Italian and Spanish tutor in the Language Lab. I’m a MA Candidate in Italian Studies and got my BA at UCR in Italian and Spanish Literature. I love these languages and I look forward to helping you learn them!

Breanna
Italian, Spanish

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

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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May 20 - May 24
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Monday

May 20, 2019
  • No tutors scheduled for today.

Tuesday

May 21, 2019
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Wednesday

May 22, 2019
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Thursday

May 23, 2019
  • No tutors scheduled for today.

Friday

May 24, 2019
  • No tutors scheduled for today.

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

Reservation Schedule

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Friday

May 24, 2019
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Weekly Reservations

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Reservations for the week of May 19 - May 25.
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305
306A
306B
306C
316
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305
306A
306B
306C
316
Lab Closed for Summer
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305
306A
306B
306C
316
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305
306A
306B
306C
316
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305
306A
306B
306C
316
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305
306A
306B
306C
316
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305
306A
306B
306C
316