Reach: Summer 2009

CLA—home to around 40 language programs—hosted nearly 2,000 students from 25 Minnesota high schools during World Languages Day on May 19. It was a fast-paced affair. Students attended three 40-minute classes in or about one of 24 different languages: Arabic, ASL, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Ojibwe, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Turkish.

Already studying second languages in their high schools, students came from communities as close as Minneapolis and as far away as Pillager to explore language opportunities at the University.