LAVC Department of World Languages and Cultures

12/29/2025

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/humanities-college-arts-computer-science-jobs-education-20251130.html

The humanities prepare students not just to get a job, but to keep it, and excel while doing so.

12/01/2024

Beautiful!

11/03/2024

Día de Mu***os en México:

💛 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY HERE 👉🏽 https://bit.ly/easyspanishcommunityAs a member of our community, you get transcripts, vocabulary lists & flashcards & exercis...

11/03/2024

Erntedankfest (Thanksgiving) in Deutschland:

Learn German through listening to simple and comprehensible content! Book a lesson with me: https://learn-natuerlich-german.thinkific.com/pages/book-a-lesson...

11/03/2024

Apprenez le vocabulaire pour Thanksgiving, en pratiquant votre compréhension orale:

Let's talk about Thanksgiving in French! Do we celebrate Thanksgiving? A short chit-chat about Thanksgiving, talking about traditions and origins. Rejoins-mo...

09/23/2024

https://www.cnn.com/travel/mallorca-language-school-ted-purdom-american?cid=ios_app

Ted Purdom, from California, hated languages in school and failed Spanish twice. Then he found himself studying in Spain and now runs his own language school there.

08/04/2024

I love the new Olympic motto (as of 2021), on display in Paris: “Faster, higher, stronger, together” = Citius, altius, fortius—communiter.” https://olympics.com/ioc/faq/olympic-symbol-and-identity/what-is-the-olympic-motto #

The original Olympic motto is made up of three Latin words : Citius - Altius - Fortius. These words mean Faster - Higher - Stronger. On the 20th of Ju...

03/23/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/laurent-de-brunhoff-dead.html?smid=url-share

After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.

02/08/2024

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=881842540613489&id=100063632530283&mibextid=cr9u03

Lesser-known French Speaking Communities in North America. Credit to Reddit user jikkler

12/05/2023

https://youtu.be/S1l9oDiSiEQ?si=EUwfGSrtPPjllJ62

This video is all about the mysteries of Euskara - the Basque language of the Basque people in Europe.🚩 Support Langfocus on Patreon: http://patreon.com/lan...

06/08/2023

Congratulations to all our 2023 World Languages and Cultures graduates!