Community and Linguistics at Duke
International House offers diverse cross-cultural programs to help students, scholars, and Duke community members from all over the world learn from each other and become open-minded global citizens.
- Connect. Learn. Grow. (CLG Series) Workshop Series
- Duke Language Partners
- English Conversation Club
- Spanish Conversation Club
- International Friends Program
- Global Cafe
- Meet Your World At Duke Series
- Global Engagement Program
Langages at Duke
Duke offers many opportunities for students pursuing a second language proficiency. Our goal is for all Duke students to develop proficiency in a second language in order to explore foreign cultures, histories and literatures, gain an understanding and appreciation for culture in as embodied in language, and bring a cultural perspective to bear to enhance understanding of issues of similarity and difference.
Web Resources
- The LINGUIST List is operated at Indiana University, Department of Linguistics. The aim of the list is to provide a forum where academic linguists can discuss linguistic issues and exchange linguistic information.
Blogs to Follow
- Language Log: Mark Liberman's (UPenn) online community featuring contributions from many of the top linguists in the US. Multi-authored, with the caveat that you may find some authors or posts more interesting or accessible than others; very good for: calling out bad linguistics in the news, lively and intelligent comment section, comprehensive blog roll along the side, highlighting other interesting work in guest posts)
- The Ling Space (See also the Ling Space’s youtube channel, but they also post additional interesting explanations on their tumblr blog)
- Prototumblinguist (great entry point into the tumblr linguistics fandom)