Summer Intensive Language Program at Monterey

02/18/2022

… sorry about this! 😬 Can you believe in French the word voyageraient ([they] were traveling) is pronounced voyage-er-ay? And in English we have gnaw (pronounced nah) and receipt (pronounced re-seat)? If this inspires you to want to understand language rules and more, we have our amazing Custom Language Services! 📚📖

02/11/2022

As our spring ESL program recently started, here’s a fun English language game to finish the end of the week! (Seriously, it’s funny hearing yourself speaking out loud trying to place “only” in all different parts of the sentence)

12/02/2019

Have you checked out these language (or C-dramas) on Netflix yet?

Taiwanese dramas Nowhere Man and Triad Princess are the streaming giant’s first Chinese-language originals – and they look pretty good to us

11/25/2019

C'est cool! Or no?

And it's expressions like 'fake news' (instead of information fallacieuse) and 'cool! that are to blame.

11/22/2019

You can count on Sesame Street to connect with children of all cultures, especially those in refugee communities.

Basma, a nearly six-year-old purple Muppet with pigtails, loves to dance.

11/22/2019

Content-based instruction (or learning in language) has been at the center of everything we do for decades. Thrilled to see it begining to catch on with other institutions.

A move to add language-specific sections to English-instructed courses allows students to keep up their skills in a second language without another course.

11/19/2019

Don't want to end up like Eleanor Shellstrop and find yourself in the Bad Place? Then make sure to practice speaking in a foreign language!

Ethical integrity has more to do with language than you'd think.

11/18/2019

Happy from the Middlebury Institute! Many SILP students plan to use their language knowledge to study overseas. Check out this fascinating infographic from the Institute of International Education about U.S. students studying abroad.

Open Doors 2019 US Study Abroad data.

11/13/2019

Happy World Kindness Day! Here are some ways to celebrate: https://abc7.com/society/simple-acts-of-kindness-you-can-do-to-celebrate-world-kindness-day/2640428/

And I'd like to propose a 22nd way: learning and using a new language to be kind to even more people! :)

How often do you pause in your busy routine to do something nice for someone else? Nov. 13 is an especially great day to bring that intention to fruition: It's World Kindness Day!