The Language Laboratory, located on the first floor of the Hollander Hall, is an all-digital computer lab. The lab design centers on the changing modes of student learning, and remains up-to-date with format of materials available for foreign language study, as well as advancements in digital technology. The new lab accommodates individual and group study with delivery of audio and visual materials in digital format. The workspace is primarily reserved for students who wish to perfect their foreign language pronunciation, listen to passages in the original version, complete their language workbook exercises or write papers in any of the languages taught at Williams. Internet resources with educational content coexist with the more traditional media such as films, audio files and instructional CDs. The extensive foreign language video collection has been replaced with DVDs in Sawyer Library.
Foreign language pedagogy has embraced technological developments that facilitate access to language exchange and authentic cultural matter, and the language lab is an ideal place for making connections to various types of materials that are useful for language study. At the lab, spontaneous as well as directed communication with other cultures is made possible in all the foreign languages taught at Williams.
Audio on-line
Arabic:
Chinese:
- CHIN 412 – available on Glow
French:
German:
Hindi:
Japanese:
- JAPN 201 – 202; 301 – 302
- JAPN 401 – 402
- Japanese 101, 201 and 301 – available on Glow
Korean:
Russian:
Spanish:
- Pasajes (Spanish 104)
- RLSP 103 (Spanish 103)
- RLSP 106 (Spanish 106)
- Puntos
- More material Available on Centro
Swahili:
These audio/video pages use Quicktime movies. You may need to installed Quicktime Player for Windows from Apple’s Website to be able to listen to the audio files.
Interactive media
Commercial multimedia programs available in the lab are:
- Arabic Tutorials
- Twin Bridges
- Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese
- Japanese Language Learning (Encarta)
- Mundraub (German)
- A la rencontre de Philippe
- Allons-y!
- French in Action
- Le Correcteur
- Le Petit Robert
- Dictionnaire Hachette
- Encyclopedique Hachette
- Le Grand Louvre
- Dans un quartier de Paris
- French Language Learning (Encarta)
- Paris: Promenades et histoire
- Rhythm of French
- Un meurtre a Cinet: An Internet Mystery Game
- Italian All the Way
- Who is Oscar Lake? (Italian)
- Prego!
- El Corrector
- Paradoja
- Puntos de Partida
- Recuerdos de Madrid
- Encyclopedia of Russian Biographies
- Kapusta
- Learn Russian Now (Transparent Language)
- Listening to Okudzhava: 23 Aural Comp. Exercises in Russian
- Live from Moscow (v.1, 2)
- Passport to Russia
- Russian Dictionary Tree
- Russian-English Dictionary of the Human Body
- START: Intro to Sound and Writing Systems in Russian
- Twelve Chairs (part I, II, III)
- Twelve Stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko
- Virtual St. Petersburg
- WordAce! Dictionary: Russian/English
- Speak Hebrew!
