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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Netflix Original series: “Transatlantic”

Are you studying German? You may be interested in checking out the Netflix Original series... More

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Carleton Expo

The Language Learning Resource Centre is here to support language learners and we need your input. Tell us a bit about yourself and let's stay in... More

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Last Week’s Board Game Event – Spyfall!

Last Wednesday, we had a fantastic board game event where we played Spyfall. For those unfamiliar with it, Spyfall is a social deduction game that involves players taking on different roles... More

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Heads Up! – Netflix’s New Game Can Help With Language Learning?

Heads up language learners! Do you have a Netflix subscription? If so, have you heard the news? Last year, Netflix released their version of Heads Up!, originally popularised on... More

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Board Games – Enrich your life!

Everybody knows the classics. Whether it’s Monopoly, Clue, or Pictionary, it’s likely that your family has at least one board game in their libraries. However, the world of board gaming is so much larger than that. The board... More

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Games2Teach Review – Does UOregon have the key to optimized language learning?

Games2Teach is a simple website designed by two American language instructors to help learners and teachers leverage games for language... More

Monday, February 13, 2023

Mark your calendars! Linguavision 2023 coming!

Join us 15 March in KM Theatre for Linguavision 2023. This year's event will see 22 performances (individuals & groups) singing in 9 different languages: Performer bios will begin appearing on the Linguavision website 20... More

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

LLRC Game Night Announcement!

Attention language learners! The LLRC will be soon be holding its first game night of the year! The event is intended as a bit of a pilot to see if students (like you) think that board games can be a useful tool to improve language... More

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Board Games Reduce L2 Anxiety

Happy Wednesday, language learners! I’ve been doing a lot of research on how board games and language interact, and I came across this study called “The Effect of Using Board Games in Reducing Language Anxiety and Improving Oral... More

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Japanese conversation group in action

The Japanese Conversation Group meets weekly in the LLRC (SP 337). Click here for days/times, then come by and join the... More

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Game Review: Hanabi

Game Info Premise You and your friends are absent-minded pyrotechnicians working to put together a firework show, but you mix up the fuses and colours! Work together to build fireworks, but be careful of putting them in the right... More

Thursday, October 13, 2022

Join Antonia for a little German conversation

“Life is too short to learn German.” – Richard Porson Do you ever feel frustrated in your German classes and don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel? Maybe participating in a German conversation group can boost... More

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Language conversation groups begin

Language conversation groups are now underway in the Language Learning Resource Centre (SP 337). Run by native speakers and/or enthusiastic second language speakers, these sessions are scheduled weekly and run for 1 hour. Click... More

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Volunteer for Linguavision

We are looking for volunteers for the upcoming Linguavision Song Contest. The event will take place: March 2023 For those volunteering for more than 5 hours, this experience may qualify for inclusion in your Co-Curricular... More

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Linguavision Video (2019)

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Thursday, May 24, 2018

How to choose a language

There are a lot of languages in the world that you can choose to study; 6,909 according to research by Ethnologue in 2009. Some of them, like Mandarin Chinese and Spanish, are widely spoken and widely taught. Some of them, like... More