Archive for March, 2011

Only 5% of the people in the world speak English as their first language

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela Only 5% of all the people in the world speak English as their first language.* In the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & […]

Culpeper Workshop Series (March)

I thought I should repost the  Culpeper Workshop Series schedule for the first half of the Spring Semester 2011. While we haven’t had many participants as of yet, we have had about 5 individuals including Culpeper staff thus far. There’s lots of room for improvement, but in any case this is a great learning and […]

The MLC Blog

Dear professors and students of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures: We need your help. Jeremy Robinson (Culpeper Center) and I are revamping the MLC web site. The new site will host this blog, where we will post news about the department: our students, our alums, our course projects, faculty research, and community news. But we […]