The University of New Mexico's Foreign Languages and Literatures Department features its fifth annual World Language Expo, Saturday, March 6, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. in Ortega Hall on the UNM campus.
Participants will get passports to explore many familiar languages - Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Latin, Italian, Greek, Russian, Indonesian, Hindi, Esperanto, Czech, Swahili and Portuguese - and also some unfamiliar ones, Wolof, Lingala and Welsh.
If something otherworldly is appealing, learn Tolkien's elvish language - Quenya! Rounding out the morning's events includes Do Tai Chi, salsa and sevillanas dancing, chocolate truffle making, pétanque, Chinese calligraphy, origami, Manga drawing and lots more.
Students from across the state are scheduled to attend. Admission is $2. For more information, contact Marina Peters-Newell at 277-0525 or mpnewell@unm.edu.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales (505) 277-5920
Posted by kwentworth at February 10, 2004 10:37 AM