The Language Center will Open on Thursday, August 16 at 10:30 a.m.

Students taking foreign language classes at CCSF will be glad to know that the Language Center will open at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 16.  The Language Center offers support materials for all credit foreign language classes at CCSF.  iMac computers with high-speed internet access are available for you to access your online language learning materials.  And there's much more, so come on in and check it out!

The Language Center - Summer 2012 Hours

The Language Center will be open limited hours during the summer session from July 2 through August 3 as follow: 

Monday - Thursday:  9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (noon) 

Staff members will be available to assist students with locating and using materials for their particular class.  Classes will fill up early, due to limited offerings, so sign up now!   Click here for a link to a listing of Summer Session foreign language classes. 

San Francisco International Film Festival - 4/19-5/3

If you're taking a foreign language at CCSF, try to check out the film offerings at the San Francisco International Film Festival, now presenting various world cinema films at different venues around San Francisco.

Here are some previews of a few selected entries:

From France comes The Intouchables:

 A paralyzed Parisian millionaire and his assistant, a Senegalese rowdy, strike up an anarchic friendship in this update of ’80s buddy movies like Trading Places, starring François Cluzet and “the French Eddie Murphy,” Omar Sy. A cultural sensation in France thanks to its raucous take on racial and class divides.  


And Japan offers I Wish (Kiseki): 

Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to themes from his 2004 Nobody Knows with this moving and insightful study of two brothers, divvied up by divorced parents, who dream of reuniting their family through a bullet-train line. A children’s film with a touch of adult supervision, I Wish miraculously holds a lifetime’s range of experience.




Germany weighs in with a three-part drama/mystery Dreileben: 

All three films of Dreileben’s character-driven crime drama trilogy are set in and around a small town by the Thuringian Forest. This opening entry taps into the Grimm nature of the setting. Two protagonists as green as the leaves face more romantic trouble than they can handle, while a murderer lurks nearby.

Chinese Language Advisory Placement Test: Arts 212 on May 11 from 1:30-3:30

The Chinese Advisory Placement Test will be given in Arts 212 on May 11 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.  What is the Chinese Language Advisory Placement Test?  The CPT is used by the Chinese Program to assess students’ Chinese language proficiency level so that they may be placed in the appropriate language classes in our program at the CCSF.   For more information on this placement test, click here.  

Foreign Language Class for Summer 2012

Due to budget constraints, the offerings for summer foreign language courses will be limited.  However, some classes will be available as follow:.  Register early as these classes will fill up quickly!

		50085	CHIN 1A		M-F	10:00-12:00	ART 308	TSAO
		50922	CHIN 14A		M-F	08:00-10:00	ART 308	WONG
		50070	FREN 1A		M-F	08:00-10:00	ART 315	NAVARRO
		50747	FREN 1A	591	TR	05:00-09:48	ART 309	MORABITO
		52106	ITAL 1A		M-F	10:00-12:00	HC 206	CONCIN
		50924	JAPA 1A	001	M-F	09:00-11:00	HC 205	WRIGHT
		50358	JAPA 1A	501	TR	05:00-09:48	ART 316	TAKAMATSU
		50247	SPAN 1A	001	M-F	08:00-10:00	ART 310	VASQUEZ
		51592	SPAN 1A	002	MTWR	11:00-01:32	HC 205	FELIU
		50765	SPAN 1A	501	TR	05:00-09:48	CLOU 266	BARTHOLOMEW

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Drop-In Grammar Workshops for German, Spanish, maybe French, Will be Back in R-205E

Students!  Drop-In Grammar Workshops will be back soon in R-205E:

If you could use an upgrade or reboot in your language studies, here’s another chance:

Spanish 1A:  Monday, April 23 from 11:00-12:00 noon

In addition, there will be at least two end(ish) of the semester, review materials and/or prepare-for-your-final sessions for German 1 and 2:

German 1: Friday, April 6, 1:00-2:00 
                      Wednesday, April 18, 2:00-3:00 
                      Wednesday, May 9, 11:00-12:00 noon

And

German 2: Monday, May 14 from 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Additionally, a Tu, Th session will be planned for German 2.  Check the Deutsch?  Na Klar! Blog (see the Language Center homepage, Language News, for a link) for updates.  

For French: please let Nancy or Stan know of your interest in scheduling a French grammar workshop and they will see what they can do to accommodate you.  

New additions to the schedule will be regularly updated on this blog.

French Film Viewing the Language Center - A Small Taste

Students of French, if your instructor permits Language Center credit for viewing movies, then be sure to check out one of the many French-language DVD's available in R-403.  Movies offer a window into a culture's soul, as well as giving you an opportunity to hear French as it is spoken in its "native habitat".  Here's a sample of some of the selections available, check them out in full in the Language Center:

First up:  Entre les murs (The Class): 

In an inventive adaptation of his novel about his experiences working in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Paris, François Bégaudeau stars as a replica of himself -- a passionate French teacher who presides over a classroom of diverse young minds. Not your standard drama or documentary but something in between, this Oscar-nominated film used three cameras during a largely improvisational shoot and features real students rather than actors.

Next comes a comedic farce:  La Placard (The Closet): 

A milquetoast accountant (Daniel Auteuil) is about to get fired from his job for literally being a bore. But at the last minute, a helpful neighbor (Michel Aumont) concocts a "new life" for him as an out-of-the-closet (read: intriguing) homosexual, and suddenly everything changes. Gérard Depardieu co-stars as a homophobic officemate who might be masking a few feelings of his own in writer-director Francis Veber's foreign language comedy.

Last but not least, here's a psychological thriller: 

Caché

  (Hidden): 

Winner of the Cannes Best Director Award, Michael Haneke's psychological thriller centers on wealthy French couple Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche), who begin receiving threatening videotapes and phone calls that threaten to ruin their relationship. Georges realizes who the perpetrator is but refuses to tell Anne. Yet childhood flashbacks reveal the mystery, a story that illuminates France's damaged relations with Algeria.