UW hosts world language day

News – The Branding Iron Online (Photo courtesy of Mollie Hand)
The University of Wyoming will host World Languages Day (WLD) today and tomorrow to celebrate language education for 6-12 grade students.
The day will expose Wyoming students to experts in their language from around the world as well as UW’s campus, and will allow students an opportunity to meet peers with similar interests.
“It’s a way for secondary students in the state to experience different languages and cultures that they would otherwise not be exposed to,” Mollie Hand, academic advisor for UW’s department of Modern and Classical Languages, and organizer of the event, said.
Pictures taken at last years World Language days. The University of Wyoming will host World Language Day for the Wyoming secondary students. (Photo courtesy of Mollie Hand)The events included in the competition portion of the event consist of a range of slam poetry, songs, and storytelling, all according to this year’s theme of “Festivals.”.
“The main event is a competition wherein students will compete against other students of the same skill level in tasks involving their respective languages,” Hand said.
Some students already enrolled at UW said that had they known about WLD before they had chosen to attend, it would have provided more incentive.
“If I would have heard about it when I was in high school I think it would have made me consider Wyoming even more,” Victoria Ramos, UW multicultural recource center student, said. “I speak multiple languages, and speaking native Spanish, I think it would have felt more accepting here.”
Hand said she believes the event will allow students to see the how much UW has to offer culturally, as well as the number of languages spoken on campus.
“I feel as though it will be a positive recruitment effort for the university and it will allow those students to branch out ...


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