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Hi everyone! Your 1001 and 1002 language classes are 4‑credit‑hour courses. You complete three hours of in‑class instruction each week, and the fourth credit hour is earned through Language Lab work.

Depending on your language, Lab work may include:

• Meeting with a lab assistant for a conversational check‑in or tutoring appointment
• Uploading a video or audio recording in D2L
• Completing an asynchronous language activity
• Attending an online or in‑person language workshop

What you need to know

1. Lab assignment details and due dates are posted in your D2L course shell.
2. Language Lab staff provide ongoing feedback all semester. The Lab is a space to practice and reinforce what you're learning in class.
3. Sign up early for workshops and tutoring on . Sessions fill quickly, and waiting until the due date may mean no openings. You’ll have two weeks to complete each lab assignment – plan ahead!
4. Need help? Your campus Language Lab is here for you. Email us or stop by if you have tech issues, questions about an assignment, or want conversation practice or help with course concepts.

In coordination with the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Department of Modern Languages, the Language Lab offers the WebCape 2.0 Language Placement Test to help students determine their language proficiency and place them in a class that is most appropriate to their level. This assessment is available for Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian and Chinese and can be taken in any of our labs on a walk-in basis during working hours. In addition to the written test, students are also interviewed in-language by faculty in order to help determine their appropriate level so that they may coordinate with their advisors in registering for classes.

For more information about the placement test, please contact the language lab coordinator for your campus.

This is a wonderful resource to accompany your language learning experience.  To access it you have to be in one of our language labs but it is free to any student using the lab.

Free flashcard maker that can handle words in other languages (including Chinese). You can study flashcards online, on your phone/tablet, or print them out. You can also create tests with multiple choice, true or false, and fill in the blank questions. Plus you can share your flashcard templates with friends to split up the effort of creating them!

A search engine for pronunciations by native speakers in lots of languages. It is updated all the time. If you don't find the word you want to hear, you can request it to be pronounced for you once you set up an account for free.

Online dictionary for several languages. It has a forum for grammar concepts and vocabulary discussed by native and advanced speakers. Plus it has verb conjugation charts.

Lots of free activities, worksheets, and flashcards for practicing vocabulary, verb conjugations, and grammar in several languages. Plus they have really cute frogs all over the website to cheer you up!

Free French grammar lessons and worksheets with illustrations of a cute armadillo and his friends to help demonstrate the concepts. Plus they have verb charts, verb conjugation practice, pronunciation tutorials, listening comprehension videos, and recorded vocabulary lists so you can hear how to say the words.

Lots of free Spanish activities and lessons on pronunciation, grammar, conjugations, and vocabulary. Plus they have some free quizzes too.

Share the wealth!

Do you know of any useful websites for learning languages? Share them with the language lab assistants and we'll post them here!