Whitman College » Offices and Services » Language Learning Center

Language Learning Center

Olin Hall 316
Tel: (509) 527-5898

Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 12; 1 - 5 p.m.
and by appointment for evening and weekend events

Jennifer Mouat, PhD
Language Learning Center Coordinator

The Language Learning Center provides support to anyone in the Whitman community who either speaks a foreign language or is seeking to acquire or improve skills in a foreign language. Catch the afternoon news from Paris, curl up on the couch with a German newspaper, or meet up with a group of classmates to practice your foreign language skills.

If you're interested in the LLC, you may also be interested in the Whitman Around the World blog.

Services and Resources Overview

Native Speaker Program – conversation groups, office hours, and cultural events
Links to language resources at Whitman and abroad
Satellite television broadcasting in Chinese, Japanese, French, and German
Macs with native language operating systems (Chinese, Japanese, French, German, and Spanish)
Voice recording and audio editing software
Tape recorders and digital voice recorders for checkout
Dedicated conversational spaces and a movie-viewing room
Games, magazines, newspapers, and books in foreign languages

2012-2013 Native Speakers

Timon Traub (German); Ayana Hatsuda (Japanese); Violeta Rodriguez-Rodriguez (Spanish); Jiangli “Catherine” Qu (Chinese); Solena Jegousso (French)

Links to Language Resources

Other (more general) online resources

English dictionary (Oxford English Dictionary) This online dictionary provides extensive etymologies for words.
English dictionary (Merriam-Webster) This online dictionary provides recordings of the pronunciation of words.
Ultralingua This website provides online translation, dictionaries, and spelling/grammar checkers in multiple languages.