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SASLI offers elementary and intermediate levels of modern South Asian languages, as well as Sanskrit. SASLI prepares students for subsequent training domestically and abroad. SASLI is currently held on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students may only register for one language per summer. This 8-week program offers the equivalent of two full semesters of academic study.

Includes OCR for more than 120 languages. Special versions for Asian, Hebrew and Arabic characters also available.

"This blog this the repository for all the triumphs and tribulations as I embark on the newest chapter of my life as an exchange student in Japan. As such, there will be English, Japanese, and pictures galore in this blog. The first purpose of this blog is so that my friends and family can see what I'm up to a world away, but also so that others who are interested in studying abroad can learn through my experiences. A little bit about myself... I'm a student at Mount Holyoke College where I major in Asian Studies and Anthropology. I'm spending two weeks in June in Tokyo as part of an MHC anthropology class before returning to the US for the remainder of the summer (hopefully to work a summer job...). Through the Associated Kyoto Program, I will be attending Doshisha University in Kyoto for a period of nine months starting in September. "

The dizzy speed of technological development has driven the educational market to pile up a huge number of software programs without any serious methodological concern and consideration of the application to a variety of learners. This paper reviews current software evaluation tools and their problems, followed by further specific discussion of issues related to language learning software programs. Based on the critique of dominant bottom-up approaches of current software evaluation, this paper tries to take a holistic methodological framework into serious consideration and to provide a tentative framework which addresses key areas in evaluating language learning software programs for educators and learners.

Enjoy popular dramas and music in Asia (including Korea, China, Thailand etc.) for free. You can choose subtitles in over 15 languages.

"Princeton's 18th Conference on Chinese Lanugage Instruction 2010普林斯顿大学对外汉语教 学研讨会 Saturday, April 24, 2010 For the past seventeen years, the East Asian Studies Program at Princeton University has sponsored an annual conference on Chinese language instruction. We are pleased to announce that we are holding another conference this year, on Saturday, April 24, 2009, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. We invite proposals for presentations concerning research on Chinese language learning and teaching."