A group of Colorado State University students have been volunteering at a language immersion school in Fort Collins, providing valuable assistance to the instructors while getting extra practice with their Spanish, French and Mandarin outside the classroom.
Congratulations to Paine Lewis, who will be traveling to Latvia soon to study Russian as part of the prestigious David L. Boren Scholarship program. Click here to learn more about Paine’s accomplishment!
The best teacher I’ve ever had is ________. How do you fill in the blank? Is there a teacher, professor, faculty member, or mentor who’s left a mark on who you are and what you’re becoming? Nominate them for Colorado State University’s 2020 Best Teacher Awards. Nominate who you think deserves the Best Teacher Award […]
Le Cercle Français is looking for volunteers to participate in a study about French vowel pronunciation and acquisition. Volunteering would require about 20-30 minutes of your time and would take the form of gathering audio recording samples of your voice in a sound-attenuated room on campus. The requirements for this voluntary study are: Americans who […]
Currently working as an Interpreter Coordinator for the Colorado Judicial branch of government, Joseph Strong is a 2012 graduate of International Studies, having completed a minor in Chinese. Here’s what Joseph has to say about where Chinese has taken him: “My journey into Chinese language and culture started Fall semester of 2009 at CSU. At […]
October is here, and the good people of Colorado know what that means….Homecoming! The day was clear, the temperature comfortable, and spirits soared high as students, staff, and the Fort Collins community gathered to join the festivities. The annual Homecoming parade wound its way around town and traveled across the Oval into the heart of […]
Little did Charlie Vest know that when he first signed up for a Chinese course, he was setting his feet on a path that he “would have never expected”. Hear his story about how he ended up living in China. Charlie Vest video transcript Charlie Vest now […]
Adding a Japanese Minor to my undergraduate studies at CSU has had a profound impact on my early career path. With a study abroad in Nagasaki and a second trip to Kagawa lead by Beeken Sensei for further credit, I became serious about a career track that could lead me to work in Japan. Graduating in 2015 with a major in Computer Information Systems opened […]
Francis Commerçon 2018 BS in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and Biological Sciences. Minor in Chinese. 2017 Truman Scholarship recipient. 2018 Fulbright scholar. Francis was an Honors student and a Boettcher Foundation Scholar. He earned a double major and a minor in Chinese during his academic career at CSU. Armed with years of Chinese study […]