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Welcome to our Culture Club Update

The Culture Club is an online environment where teachers of foreign languages can find materials and information to help them teach about the culture(s) of their target language(s). Below you will discover what is currently featured in each of the nine rooms of the Club. Each room also has a link to its Collection where you will find all the previously-featured materials. Please let us know what you think of receiving this update. If you have trouble following the links from the email, paste this URL into your browser: http://nclrc.org/cultureclub/email_club.html

ITALIAN SCAVENGER HUNT: Dr. Bradley Holtman is the winner of the Italian Scavenger Hunt. He is an extraordinary linguist! He is currently a professor of German at Mansfield UniBradley Holtmanversity in Mansfield, PA. where he also occasionally teaches French. He has also taught French and German in high school and given individualized instruction in Italian, Spanish phonetics, introductory Russian, and Gothic. He has an M.A. and PhD in Germanic Linguistics and Philology and a subspeciality in Dutch and Scandinavian Studies, Danish and Icelandic. He has chosen NCLRC's "Developing Listening Comprehension Skills Summer Institute" as his award.

 

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Speakers' Corner

MARCH 2010: The Role of the French in the American Revolution
Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution
By Marcel LaVergne, Ed.D. Go to article

FEBRUARY 2010: Indro Montanelli: Le Stanze
By Carlo Mignani Go to article

JANUARY 2010: Nocturnal Adventure in Paris: A French Teacher's Panic Turns to Glee
By Lois A. Jarman Go to article

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Photo Gallery

MARCH 2010 Photo Contest: Be the winner! Identify the location. See photograph

FEBRUARY 2010 Photo Contest: No winner yet! Be the winner! Identify the location. See photographs

JANUARY 2010 Photo Contest Winner: Anita Kay

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Banquet Hall

MARCH 2010: Mexican Hot Chocolate Read article

JANUARY 2010: Mole de olla (Cocido de carne y verduras en olla) Read article

DECEMBER 2009: A Puerto Rican New Year's Dinner: Pernil Al Horno (Roasted Pork Shoulder) And Arroz Con Gandules Read article

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Spanish Music Room

MARCH 2010: Rubén Blades Greatest Hits by Rubén Blades Read Review

DECEMBER 2009: Renovatio by Orozco Read Review

NOVEMBER 2009: Lo mejor de Andrea Bocelli-Vivere by Andrea Bocelli  Read Review

The French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian Collections are still available in the Culture Club Collection

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Screening Room

MARCH 2010:
Academy Award Nominations
French: Le Grand Chemin

FEBRUARY 2010:
French: Argent de poche (Small Change)
German: Absolute Giganten
Italian: Ricordati di me
Spanish: Planta 4a

JANUARY 2010:
French: Diabolo Menthe (Peppermint Soda)
Italian: Rappresaglia (Massacre in Rome)
Korean: Bakha satang (Peppermint Candy)
Spanish: La hora de los valientes

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Library

MARCH 2010:  
French: L’Africain
Italian: I Promessi Sposi  
 
Visit the Poetry Rooms. Many thanks to Northern Virginia Community College students Genevieve Hancock and Ioana Oprea for their French cinquains. We look forward to receiving more cinquains from students of French, Italian, and Spanish

FEBRUARY 2010:
French: Les femmes qui lisent sont dangereuses (Women Who Read are Dangerous)
Italian: Il Cacciatore
Norwegian: Hidden Falls

JANUARY 2010:
French: Chagrin d'école
German: Im Krebsgang (Crabwalk)
Italian: Sparrow's Revenge: A Novel of Postwar Tuscany
Spanish: La Catedral del mar (Cathedral of the Sea)

Discover new cinquains for use in your classroom in
 
the French Poetry Room: L'âme poétique de nos écoles 
the Italian Poetry Room: Sala delle Poesie 
the Spanish Poetry Room: El Rincón Poético 

Go to the Teacher's Lounge for guidelines on writing cinquains. Send in your contributions as well as those of your students. You can all be published poets!

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Teachers' Lounge

FEBRUARY 2010: Lessons for Le Stanze di Indro Montanelli
By Carlo Mignani Go to article

JANUARY 2010: El Origen y el Uso de la Tortilladora
By Sheila Cockey Go to article

NOVEMBER 2009: Entre Les Murs: Which French Should French Teachers Teach?
By Marcel LaVergne Go to article

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The Hangout

FEBRUARY 2010: Hiroaki Higaki, a teenager from Japan talks about culture in Japan and his everyday life Go to interview

NOVEMBER 2009: Nelson, a teenager from San Salvador, talks about his life in the capital of El Salvador.  Go to interview

SEPTEMBER 2009: Alexandre, a French teenager, answers questions about his life in Hautot sur Mer. The text of the interview in the original French is available for download and use in the classroom.

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Bloggers' Den

Have you checked out our blog list recently?

Culture Shocks! is back. Read about incidents of cross-cultural miscommunication and add your own.

Edward Gauvin and Andrea Agostini submitted winning entries for our Cultureshocks blog. They both provided amusing but frustrating stories about being a foreigner in their own countries. We welcome your stories of cross-cultural misunderstandings. If we accept it for publication, you will win a prize!

Check out these blogs and many more, including blogs in additional languages and the NCLRC's own Culture Shocks blog, in the Bloggers' Den!

 
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