An interview with Professor David Macfadyen, UCLA Slavic Department

Podcast by Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University

Joseph Lo Bianco, University of Melbourne and President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Michael Heim, University of California, Los Angeles

Maria Polinksy, Harvard University

Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Heim, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA, says he's never learned a language just for the sake of learning it, and he tells why experts write the worst textbooks.

Michael Heim on the importance of learning languages.

A UCLA professor emeritus of linguistics talks about language-counting, what makes Swahili special, and what becomes of manuscripts in East Africa.

The director of the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Arizona State University discusses his multidisciplinary approach with CWL's Kathryn Paul.

The director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA (and of CWL) answers some frequently asked questions.

Keynote by Tim Xie, CSULB Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Lisa Parkes and Brenna Reinhart, UCLA Department of Germanic Languages

Janet Goodwin, UCLA Applied Linguistics and TESL/ESL

Russell Schuh, UCLA Department of Linguistics

Elissa Tognozzi, UCLA Department of Italian

Ted Liu and Jonathon Jones, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities

Orlando Kelm, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Liancheng Chief, UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

Jonathan Allen, UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies