LCTL volunteer experts sought (fwd)

[Devin P Browne]

This is an opportunity it get some more good "PR" out there for Russian
and other LCTLs from the former SU, Eastern Europe, etc.  With enrollment
problems a concern for most of us, this should be a priority.  This might
also provide an opportunity to establish links to your own programmatic
homepages that exist out there.  I think those who can should jump on
this service-oriented opportunity for the SEELANGS and other LCTLs
community.

Devin


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Devin P. Browne                                   Clairton Education Center
Foreign Language Teacher                                 501 Waddell Avenue
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu                                      Clairton, PA  15025
                                                             (412) 233-9200


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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 09:27:06 -0500
From: Less Commonly Taught LanguagesLouis-janus <lctl+ at tc.umn.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list FLTEACH <FLTEACH at UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
Subject: LCTL volunteer experts sought

Dear listserv readers:

    If you speak or know a Less Commonly Taught Language (LCTL) -- all
human languages except English, French, German, and Spanish) -- and would
like to volunteer your services in sharing your knowledge, we would like to
talk to you.

     On our new World-Wide Web page, the LCTL project will be listing
"Volunteer Experts" by language, with e-mail addresses.  So if someone in
cyberspace  wants to know about, say, vowel harmony in Turkish, she or he
can pose a question to one of our Turkish experts. We got the idea from
several people who found out about our work and wanted to assist us in
spreading the word about their languages.

    If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, please send the LCTL
project a short e-mail message <LCTL at TC.UMN.EDU> with your name (optional),
e-mail address, the language of your expertise, and any specific areas you
feel particularly interested in (for example, Bulgarian dialects). We will
be pleased to
post your information on our experts page.

    Since the service is just beginning, it is impossible to predict how
popular it will be, or how many people will write the day before their term
paper is due asking you to write an essay on the development of the Korean
writing system.

     If your mailbox starts to overflow, we will remove your name and
e-mail address as soon as we can get to our computer (within a few
hours!)


Please write or call if you have questions.
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