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

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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 8:00am-5:00pm
Friday 9:00am-noon
Saturday & Sunday closed

Foreign Language Tutoring

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

Hello everyone! My name is Pinying Chiang. I am getting my M.A. degree in Asian Studies with emphasis in Teaching Chinese as Second Language. Nice to meet you all. Feel free to ask me any Chinese questions.

Pingying
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

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
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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Nov 19 - Nov 23
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Monday

Nov 19, 2018
  • No tutors scheduled for today.

Tuesday

Nov 20, 2018
  • No tutors scheduled for today.

Wednesday

Nov 21, 2018
  • No tutors scheduled for today.

Thursday

Nov 22, 2018
  • No tutors scheduled for today.

Friday

Nov 23, 2018
  • No tutors scheduled for today.

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

Nov 20, 2018
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➤  Fall Break
Lab Closed

Weekly Reservations

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Reservations for the week of Nov 18 - Nov 24.
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305
306A
306B
306C
316
19
305
306A
306B
306C
316
Fall Break
Lab Closed
20
305
306A
306B
306C
316
Fall Break
Lab Closed
21
305
306A
306B
306C
316
Fall Break
Lab Closed
22
305
306A
306B
306C
316
Fall Break
Lab Closed
23
305
306A
306B
306C
316
Fall Break
Lab Closed
24
305
306A
306B
306C
316