Communicating Across Language Barriers

In response to the positive feedback from the first session, Our United Villages Community Outreach is happy to announce another workshop on Communicating Across Language Barriers: Understanding Accents. The workshop will be presented by Judith Wild, a visiting professor at Portland State University, Lewis and Clark College and the Northwest Film and Video Center with 30 years of ESL teaching experience. The workshop will include:

• VIDEOS: Watch and listen to people speak English with accents from around the world.
  
• PRACTICE: Discuss the elements of speech in various languages and practice tuning your ear to understand accents.
  
• INFORMATION: Learn specific characteristics and speech patterns for Russian, Mexican Spanish, Vietnamese, and Mandarin Chinese speakers.
  
• DISCUSSION: Share experiences and identify solutions to increase your awareness of and ability to understand accents.

Click Here to learn more about this and other workshops.
Or RSVP at info@ourunitedvillages.org.