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:

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

¡Hola! Salut ! My name is Natalie Nutman and I am a Spanish and French tutor at the language lab. I am a second-year MA student in the Spanish program at CSULB, and I also obtained my BA in Spanish here in 2017. Language study has profoundly broadened my perspective and transformed the way I view the world. Come see me if you want to chat about anything to do with Spanish and French studies!

Natalie
Spanish, French

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
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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Apr 22 - Apr 26
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Monday

Apr 22, 2019
  • 9-11am Filipino (Koreen)
  • 9-11:30am French (Tyler)
  • 10am-12pm German (Natalie)
  • 10am-12pm Spanish (Carlos)
  • 11am-1pm ASL (Caryn)
  • 1:30-3pm Chinese (Jeff)
  • 3-5pm Chinese, Korean (Huiyin)

Tuesday

Apr 23, 2019
  • 9-11am Chinese (Jeff)
  • 10am-12pm Italian, Spanish (Breanna)
  • 12-2pm German (Luke)
  • 1-3pm Spanish (Carlos)
  • 1-5pm Chinese, Korean (Huiyin)
  • 1-3pm ASL (Emily)
  • 2-4pm Japanese (Mutsumi)

Wednesday

Apr 24, 2019
  • 9-11am Filipino (Koreen)
  • 9-11:30am French (Tyler)
  • 9-11am Spanish, French (Natalie)
  • 10am-12pm German (Natalie)
  • 11am-1pm Italian, Spanish (Breanna)
  • 11am-1pm ASL (Caryn)
  • 12-3pm Japanese (Akane)
  • 2:45-4:45pm Chinese, Korean (Huiyin)

Thursday

Apr 25, 2019
  • 9-11am Chinese (Jeff)
  • 9-11am Spanish, French (Natalie)
  • 10am-12pm Italian, Spanish (Breanna)
  • 12-2pm German (Luke)
  • 1-3pm ASL (Emily)
  • 1:30-4:30pm Chinese (Xinyan)

Friday

Apr 26, 2019
  • 9am-12pm Chinese (Jeff)

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Reservation Schedule

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Sunday

Apr 21, 2019
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Weekly Reservations

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