Views of Our BCPS "Spanish for Teachers" Class

We offer functional Spanish classes for teachers, support staff, and administrators of K-12 students.  We were fortunate to have BCPS TV filming the class a few weeks ago--here is a peek behind the scenes! Many thanks to our wonderful instructor, Pat Previdi, for allowing us to watch the magic happen!

Sign at CCBC

Did you know that CCBC Continuing Education offers Sign Language classes?  Here is an interesting post from Mental Floss,  7 Things You Should Know About Sign Language. Does this pique your interest?  Check out our class schedule!

Fun with the Spanish Class!

Learning Spanish is more than what happens in the classroom!   When an opportunity to pair the language with culture occurs, our classes will take advantage, get together, and have some fun!  Here is our lead world languages instructor, Thu Schaeffer, with some of her Intermedaiate and Advanced Spanish students at the Olney Theater to see Carmen.

World Arts Festival at CCBC Owings Mills

Express Your Love...

Learn how to say "I love you" in one of the 17 different World Languages we offer.  Your options:

• Arabic
• Chinese Mandarin
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hindi
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Sign
• Spanish
• Tagalog
• Urdu

Register for one of our classes, and learn this and more!  Impress your loved ones!  For more information and to register, go to www.ccbcmd.edu/flexreg, or call 443-840-4700.

Tagalog, Anyone?

Or how about Arabic?  German? Russian? Portuguese or Polish?  Beginning level classes for all these languages are starting in the next week--you can still register!  Call 443-840-4700, or go to www.ccbcmd.edu/flexreg for more information and to register.

Happy Lunar New Year!

 

 

February 8th is the 1st day of the New Year in the lunar calendar.  For the majority of Vietnamese, Tet evokes a magic period when everyone forgets his or her misfortune during the previous year. Rich of poor, young or old, everyone is going to celebrate it with solemnity and cheerfulness.

It is also an occasion to obey certain rules that all Vietnamese must know: banning bad words, toning down all quarrels, not touching a broom for fear that good fortune will be swept away, avoiding being the first to show up at someone's house on the first day of the year.  The first visitor of the year to a house is the most significant, being a portent of the coming year's fortune.

These are some pictures from when Thu returned to visit her home country in Jan. 2008, after almost 40 years, with a group of her students.