Spanish skills put to use in New Haven Community
| by Eliza Kravitz
Eliza Kravitz is a junior at Yale University studying history, human rights, and Spanish. She attended Middlebury’s 7-week Spanish immersion program in Summer 2021.
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Video: Total Korean Language Immersion!
| by Maria Cecilia Soto
See this video from Level 1 Korean student about her experience in the 8-week immersion program for the School of Korean.
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Luis Gonçalves: Meaningful ways to teach and learn Portuguese – Interview
Luis Gonçalves, DIrector of the Portuguese School, discusses how he grew up in Portugal, his journey to the United States and how he became a Portuguese language teacher, meaningful ways to teach and learn Portuguese, the definition of “full-immersion” and second language learning, the Middlebury’s Language Pledge, and José Saramago’s 100th birthday.
Portuguese Alum now Fulbright fellow in Brazil
Sage Behr, 2019 alumna of the Middlebury Escola de Português, is now finishing up a year as a Fulbright fellow in Campinas, Brazil.
In Memoriam: Anna Sun
Former coordinator for the Chinese School, and for the Chinese, French, and Japanese Departments at Middlebury, died on Saturday, October 15, after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer.
German School Alum Publishes Book
Recent alum of the 7-week German School at Middlebury Language Schools published a book in August.
Donato Santeramo to Lead Middlebury Italian School
Donato Santeramo has been named the next director of the Middlebury Italian School.
Luis Gonçalves Named Director of the Middlebury Portuguese School
Middlebury has named Luis Gonçalves as the next director of the Portuguese School.
Hill and Phifer use their Middlebury language skills in E-learning
Learn more about careers in the language industry and alumni from the Middlebury Language Schools - Hill (Master’s in French) and Phifer (German School 7-week Immersion Program).
In Memoriam: Daniel F. Jourlait
Former Language Schools professor Dr. Daniel F. Jourlait died peacefully, surrounded by his daughter, Claire, and son Marc, on August 3, 2022, in Paris, where he had been living since the summer of 2019 after living 40 years in Aix-en-Provence. He taught for many years in the Betty Ashbury Jones MA ’86 School of French during the 1970s and 1980s and served as director from 1987 to 1997.