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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 3, 1998
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WHAT: Bowling Leagues at the Jaybowl
WHERE: The Jaybowl, Level 1, Kansas Union
WHEN: MONDAY NIGHT: First Night, Sept. 14 Mixer 7-9 p.m.(Open to all men and women)
TUESDAY NIGHT: First Night, Sept. 8
Varsity mixer 7-9 p.m. (Calling KU's top bowlers.
This night is for you!)
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: First Night, Sept. 9 Greek Mixer 7-9 p.m. (Calling all fraternities & sororites, bake to make your chapter proud!)
THURSDAY NIGHT: First Night, Sept. 10 United Nations 7-9 p.m. (International students, find some friends and bowl the night away!)
TIME: Weekly 7 - 9 p.m.
COST: $4 per person per week for 11 weeks
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Groups speaking in tongues
By Mariana Paiva
Kansan staff writer
Conversation clubs enhance learning
Students taking French, Spanish or Italian have an opportunity to get help outside of class.
Several language departments have organized conversation groups on campus and in downtown Lawrence to help students improve and enjoy their language classes.
"I think joining a conversation group will make it easier for me to practice my language skills," said Jessica Rucker, Burdett freshman. "It will be very beneficial for me to make connections with French students and with professors in the department."
Ted Johnson, professor and adviser of Le Cercle Francais, said that throughout the years he had helped students organize a series of events that helped them better understand the French culture.
"We used to go to Dillons to do our grocery shopping in French," Johnson said. "Or we would walk on cam
pus and go to the museums always describing what we saw in French. It is a great way to learn."
Johnson said students from African countries also attended the meetings so students had the opportunity to listen to different accents.
The next meeting of Le Cercle Francais is 7 p.m., Sept. 14, in the Barbara Craig Lounge of the French department.
Paqui Paredes and Mar Freire, both graduate students from Spain, organize Mesa Hispanica and Cafe Castellano. Both conversation groups have the same purpose but meet at different places and at different times so that more students can attend.
Paredes said students who attended the Mesa Hispanica tried not to speak English.
Cafe Castellano meets from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays and from 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesdays, both in Wescoe Terrace. The Mesa Hispanica meets from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays at Alcove A in the Union.
"Even the ones who are shy or are beginning to learn Spanish have improved just by listening." Paredes said. "The have an opportunity to
GTAs Mark Harpring and Mar Freire help Spanish students Brett Johnson, Olathe sophomore, and Govert Buijs, Netherlands graduate student, practice their Spanish during Cafe Castellano. Cafe Castellano meets in Wescoe Terrace where students and teachers can practice their Spanish and drink coffee. Photo by Tara Bradley/KANSAN
hear the slangs, the different accents and talk about subjects that are more real, like the movies."
Marina de Fazio, instructor in French and Italian, said the idea of changing the Tavola Italiana's weekly meeting from the Union to a downtown restaurant helped to attract more students, faculty members and Lawrence residents.
The group gathers 4 to 5:30 p.m.
"Sometimes, people bring photos from a recent trip to Italy to show around or an interesting article from an Italian magazine to share with the others," de Fazio said. "The Tavola Italiana has been very successful and is a great opportunity for people to talk about Italy or speak Italian in a very relaxed atmosphere."
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Language barriers overcome by group
By Pallavi Agarwal Kansan staff writer.
When two University of Kansas students met last year, they were English conversation partners, interested in each other's language and culture.
Since then they have become friends and roommates and have even visited each other's families, one of which lives in Seattle and the other in Taiwan.
Wenchen Huang, Taiwan graduate student and Rebecca Hupp, Bellevue, Wash., senior, are two of the 200 KU students involved in last year's conversation partnership program, which paired international students with American students who want to teach English and broaden their horizons.
"The idea is to help international students who get here and provide them opportunities to have American friends," said Len Andyshak, a coordinator for the program.
The program is sponsored by International Friends, an umbrella organization comprised of about 10 KU campus ministries.
Even though the program is sponsored by campus ministries, students are not expected to have any religious affiliations. Andyshak said.
Huang is not Christian and said that the program's Christian connections didn't bother her.
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS
Students get together once a week and talk. Many of them get together for social activities and become
"I respect all religions," she said.
"Religion teaches people good things."
What: An English conversation partnership program for International students.
Contact: Len Andyshak
Telephone no: 749-5994; e-mail:
revlen@falcon.cc.ukans.edu
friends, Andyshak said.
This fall, the group has started a new Bible study course that will teach international students English through the study of the Bible.
Students will be shown pictures or cartoons of the Bible and asked to say what they saw.
"This will help in sentence construction and improve their vocabulary," Andyshak said.
The group also has two other Bible study sessions and an English conversation group for visiting faculty and scholars, in which they get together for a hourly conversation practice every week.
"Last week, we sang in Spanish. We have also sung in Chinese," Hupp said.
An emphasis is placed on making the experience of learning and teaching very international.
Before Bible study sessions, held every Saturday, students get together and sing hymns in other languages.
The group is having two training sessions for American students interested in participating in the program.
The first one is at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Pine room in the Kansas Union. The second one is at 7:30 pm Tuesday in the same room.
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