New Russian conversation class

For those of you who would like practice speaking po-Russki, a new Russian conversation class/circle is starting up, led by a new teacher named Olga Dobrunoff. It’ll meet three Fridays a month starting this Friday (tomorrow) in room 709 Hamilton at 2:30pm. You don’t have to register, just come when you can to chat!

Spring 2010 course list

The deadline to add a class for the Spring 2010 semester is looming (it’s this Friday, January 29)! If you’re still looking for that last awesome class to take, here is a list of the linguistics courses (and courses of interest to linguists) being offered this semester. This list is also posted on the Program [...]

Links and resources

COMD News is a blog that compiles articles, news, events and research in speech, language, and hearing disorders. It is run by the Callier Library, a satellite facility of the University of Texas at Dallas. From the site: The library supports the graduate-level programs and faculty in communications sciences which are located at the center. [...]

Links

This article from the BBC showcases a gadget that seems almost too good to be true: a pair of glasses that translates overheard speech and projects subtitles directly on to the viewer’s retina. NEC said the Tele Scouter was intended to be a business tool that could aid sales staff who would have information about [...]

The Spirit of Linguistics

Newly posted to our Programs and Courses page (see fourth green tab above) is an argument in favor of a full Linguistics major. Entitled “The Spirit of Linguistics at Columbia University”, it lays out the reasons why instituting a major is a good idea, and proposes a possible program of study. Click here to download, [...]

Feedback

First, thank you to everyone who has been reading this blog – hopefully, it has helped to keep you informed and reasonably entertained over the few months since its inception. Dangling modifiers aside, we would like to know your thoughts on how it has been going. What would you like to see more of? Are [...]

Courses!

In honor of Registration Week, we’ve added a new page to the site (see the green “Program and Courses” tab above), where you can find course descriptions and other information about the linguistics program. It can be quite difficult to find linguistics courses simply by going through the directory, as all of them are offered [...]

New linguistics courses!

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese will be offering several new linguistics courses, starting next semester. Offered in Spring 09: Spanish Grammar (José Plácido Ruiz Campillo) Spanish Pragmatics (Francisco Rosales Varo) Offered in Fall 09: Discourse Analysis, Language and Politics, for Portuguese and Spanish students (Ricardo Gualda) Cognitive Linguistics in Spanish (José Plácido Ruiz Campillo) [...]