Claire Kramsch, Professor of German and Education at UC Berkeley, and Founding Director of the Berkeley Language Center, gave a talk entitled “Language Ecology in Practice: Implications for Foreign Language Education” on Sept. 21, 2007.

For those unable to attend the talk, a recording will be made available soon on the BLC website (http://blc.berkeley.edu). In [...]

I turned on the television this morning and I immediately heard the rolling r’s of la française spewing out of the speakers. An episode of French In Action was playing; young rrrrrobairrrr was sitting stylishly dans un café, probably waiting for Marie. It was remarkable how attractive the characters were – I know the French [...]

I’ve been working on a few pretty sizable Japanese–>English translation projects recently…one a product assembly manual for factory workers for a medical supplier, and the other a series of summaries of manga episodes. As I open my laptop in yet another cafe or library, or at home (even in bed—the merger of ‘work’ [...]