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The Clark University Language Exchange Program (CULEP)<\/a> connects members of the Clark community who are looking to practice or improve their language skills with language partners. ALCI\u2019s language experts match participants with a partner (or group) to \u201ctrade\u201d languages: participants learn a new language with a partner while also teaching their native tongue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhile learning a new language, frozen expressions (a group of words standing in a fixed association) are really important,\u201d Ercan Balci, Assistant Director of ALCI and the Program\u2019s founder, said. Inspired by his love of languages and noticing a gap in the offering of this type of program at Clark, Balci decided to design a program where Clark students, faculty, and staff could benefit and learn new language skills. \u201cIdeally, you would want to learn a language from a professional or a language teacher with a PhD, but sometimes learning from a native speaker is great because you can ask them questions like, \u2018Oh how do you say that if I go to Russia? How can I greet people?\u2019 So that\u2019s how I got the idea, which is not new because so many other schools already do it\u2026so we\u2019re just modifying it for Clark,\u201d said Balci.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The program offers a great learning and community-building experience to participants and allows partners to learn at their own pace and set their own schedules. Nikita Nur, a graduate student from Russia and CULEP participant looking to improve his English skills, appreciates that the program helps him to \u201cfeel more confident because I can share information about my culture and learn something new from my partner. I can use this exchange program not only for learning English, but also for my future activities and goals. My partner helps me prepare for mock interviews. We share suggestions, travel about campus, eat at a few locations, and then talk about it and describe them in Russian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in learning a new language or improving your skills in a specific language, CULEP is open to all members of the Clark community and is accepting participants on a rolling basis. To learn more about the program and how to join, visit the Language Exchange Program website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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