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10/22/2025

✨✨ Registration is OPEN for Foreign Language Proficiency Certification (FLPC) assessments!

But wait... what even IS an FLPC?

These assessments, FREE of cost to all students in the College and all Graduate students in the Arts and Humanities (only $90 for everyone else), are four-skills language proficiency tests offered by the UChicago Office of Language Assessment at two levels and in up to 13 world languages. The certifications you receive upon passing tell you and others:
-- what you can do with language in the real world
-- how your language ability meets real-life objectives, not a textbook or syllabus
-- how your language ability can serve you in your professional or academic career

🌍 Successful FLPCs earn you Global Honors points: The Practical counts for 2 pts, Advanced for 3 pts!

✈️ The best time to sign up is right now!

👉If you need an SDS accommodation, letters are due to the Office of Language Assessment at time of registration (ideally), or no later than 7 days before the exam.

10/16/2025

As the add-drop period wraps up, take a look at all the different languages our departments teach, and the places where they are (or once were) spoken! 🌍✈️

Whether you want to explore a modern language or dive into an ancient one, now is the best time to enroll in a class!

09/24/2025

This just in...our Universe of Languages event is back and better than ever! Stop by Cobb Quad on October 1st from 2PM to 4PM to learn about our language offerings on campus and ways to improve or certify your language ability!

Instructors, faculty, and staff from different departments will be there to promote their programs, so feel free to come by and chat!

09/22/2025

Welcome incoming students and welcome back returning students! It’s a great first day of fall to start getting back to campus and visiting us at the CLC.

Feel free to stop by during O-Week and throughout the semester to study in one of our pods, learn about Global Honors, or just see what the CLC has to offer.

We hope to see you soon!

08/25/2025

Ever wanted to get recognition for all your global engagement and foreign language experience? Global Honors is the way to do it!

With Global Honors, students can assemble all of these many-faceted experiences and be recognized for their exceptional global engagement. Once you qualify, you will receive designation on your transcript and be recognized during Convocation (You also get to go to our Global Honors reception🤭)!

Third and fourth-year students can apply today, but all students can start working towards their GH points, even as first years! If you’re interested or have questions, you can contact [email protected]

08/14/2025

We’re hiring! Looking for on-campus work next year? Passionate about culture and language? Good with social media and/or tech? JOIN THE CLC TEAM!

⏰ The application window closes August 29th! ⏰

Apply on Handshake or Grad Gargoyle today!

07/17/2025

📢🎉

Throwing back to late May when we said farewell to our last cohort of participants in the Transforming Language Instruction (TLI) Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

We were thrilled to see the fruits of the labor undertaken by our incredible colleagues from across the nation and to celebrate the end of an era with our grant. What a way to close out the past near-decade of workshops and projects! A key piece of our mission over the past 9 years, it is hard to believe this project has come to an end. While we will miss seeing everyone in person each summer, and online throughout the year, we hope these partnerships forge ahead and that the transformative projects persevere. In this critical moment for language teaching and learning in the US, these sorts of collaborations are what stoke the fires that keep us burning for the important work we do.

The TLI Project by the numbers:
+ over 200 individuals, at 54 distinct universities
+ 47 different languages, including Less-Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) like Armenian, Hawaiian, Kurdish, Yiddish, Uyghur and Zulu
+ 14 mini-grants awarded to participants sharing their related work at conferences and symposia
+ 9 years hosting the Shared Less-Commonly Taught Languages Symposium forum, showcasing groundbreaking work by our LCTL instructional colleagues across the nation
+ 9 years of semi-annual workshops for training in the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview
+ countless professional connections and partnerships forged in support of language teaching and learning!

Congratulations, everyone!! 🎉🎉
Keep calm, keep in touch, and keep fighting for language learning!💪👀👀

06/07/2025

🎓 To the Class of 2025 — congratulations!

Your hard work, determination, and passion have brought you to this milestone, and the future is yours to shape. Whether you’re stepping into your first job, continuing your education, or exploring what’s next, we celebrate you and all that you’ve accomplished.

Here’s to new beginnings, bold goals, and the journey ahead. We are so proud of you!

06/05/2025

Last week, US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced the administration's renewed attention on visas for international students. In light of this and other recent actions regarding such visas and the presence of international students on US college and university campuses, it is imperative to understand the impacts of these students not only on ground breaking research and the educational experience of domestic students but also the US economy.

NAFSA, the Association of International Educators, which is the world's largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education/exchange and which serves the needs of more than 11,000 members and international educators worldwide at more than 4,300 institutions, recently published their AY 2023-24 data on a state-by-state and congressional district analysis of the economic contributions of international students and their families to the U.S. economy.

See link in bio to read the full text.

06/03/2025

Thank you to all of our amazing Global Honors student for attending yesterday's reception! It was so lovely to meet you all and hear about your achievements. We wish you all luck in the future, and please remember to keep in contact about your future endeavors!

If you're interested in Global Honors, make sure to sign up through our Canvas or, if you have any questions, send us an email at [email protected]. Have a great summer and we hope to hear from you!

05/30/2025

From Language Magazine, May 22, 2025:

On May 2, Russell T. Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), sent a letter to Senator Susan Collins, chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, outlining President Trump’s recommended changes to discretionary spending for fiscal year (FY) 2026. One of the administration’s recommendations is to eliminate Title III funding—the only federal grant program specifically geared towards supporting English learners (ELs) and recent immigrant students. The following description was provided as justification for the recommended reduction:

"To end overreach from Washington and restore the rightful role of State oversight in education, the Budget proposes to eliminate the misnamed English Language Acquisition program which actually deemphasizes English primacy by funding NGOs and States to encourage bilingualism. The historically low reading scores for all students mean States and communities need to unite—not divide—classrooms using evidence-based literacy instruction materials to improve outcomes for all students.”

Given the far-reaching implications that defunding Title III would have on communities across the country, it is crucial to clear up the baseless claims at the center of the President’s justification for eliminating this discretionary grant program.

05/29/2025

🔥 🔥
You’re watching someone give a toast... and they freeze. Or someone sings off-key at karaoke—but doesn’t realize it. Your stomach clenches, your face heats up, and it’s not even you up there.
That feeling? That secondhand cringe that hits like a wave?

Myötähäpeä (Finnish)
😬🇫🇮
It means vicarious embarrassment—the emotional version of covering your eyes with your hoodie and whispering, “oh nooo…”

It’s watching someone bomb a joke, fumble a speech, or overshare on a first date.
It’s not laughing at them—it's flinching for them.

Myötähäpeä reminds us how deeply human we are.
How connected. How empathetic.
Because even when it’s not our moment on stage, our hearts still feel the spotlight.

So the next time secondhand embarrassment hits…
Take a breath.
Send a silent “you got this” into the universe.
And maybe even remember your own moment (we’ve all got a few).
We're all just out here trying not to trip over the mic cord.

What’s your most Myötähäpeä moment—yours or someone else's?

🔥 🔥

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