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Smith offers more than 150 courses in foreign
languages and civilizations. Learning a language is not just learning about its pronunciation,
grammar and vocabulary; it is learning to see the world as another culture sees
it. It is also learning to see your own culture from a new perspective. Knowledge
of a foreign language will enable you to compare and contrast cultural concepts.
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Arabic • Chinese • French • German
• Greek • Hebrew • Italian • Japanese • Latin • Korean • Portuguese • Russian •
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Smith continue to look
for ways to promote language across the curriculum that reveal the importance
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The Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures
maintains a multimedia resource center and media classroom. Together they provide
access to multimedia applications that allow students to practice reading, writing,
listening and speaking and to engage in authentic, native language materials.
The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages coordinates the study of the least commonly taught languages for the Five Colleges -- Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The Center coordinates the Five College Mentored Language Program, which offers 4-skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing) courses in Arabic, Arabic dialects, Hindi, Pashto, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. The Center also coordinates the Five College Supervised Independent Language Program which offers independent study courses in 19 languages: Bulgarian, Croatian (Serbo-Croatian), Czech, Dari (Afghan Farsi), Modern Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Norwegian, Persian (Iranian Farsi), Romanian, Serbian (Serbo-Croatian), Slovak, Thai, Twi (Ghana), Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Wolof (Senegal), Yoruba (Nigeria).
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Languages
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at Smith
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