In this week’s continuation of Travel By the Book, Stacie Berdan explores two millennia of Rome, guided by histories, novels, biographies, and the art of the city itself.
Throughout the summer, the Concordia Language Villages team will be reviewing books from the New York Times’ list of “Globetrotting” new releases in 2019. This week, we review Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Let’s Tell This Story Properly and Humayun Azad’s I Remember Abbu.
This week, John Davis takes usto Warsaw, Poland, and into the mysterious Wen Club: a regular gathering of English speakers and learners that outlasted the Communist government and its interdictions against all things Western.
Here are good reads from around the globe exploring the riches of (and challenges faced by) indigenous languages, in honor of 2019 being declared the Year of Indigenous Languages by the United Nations.
This week, one of Concordia’s resident polyglots, Alexander Arguelles, discusses what being one actually entails. Join us to explore the nuances of being a polyglot vs. being multilingual, the role of speakers of multiple languages in the global community, and where to find polyglots to chat with all around the world.
