Apr-Jul: I'll be in the South Pacific.
CILTA 2008
Yesterday, we visited CILTA — Curso Internacional de Lingüística, Traducción y Alfabetización (International Course in Linguistics, Translation, and Literacy) — at the University of Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru.
This year, 10 students from Peru, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica, and other Latin American countries are taking the course to equip themselves for language work and community development among minority peoples in their home countries or overseas. Approximately 60 CILTA graduates are scattered around the world today working as field linguists, teachers, literacy specialists, etc.
We had fun visiting with the students after class. Most of them are my age or a little older, and they were very kind in encouraging me to use my lousy Spanish. It’s embarrassing and frustrating that I can’t speak or understand well, but that’s a topic for another post!
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