Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

[E Wayles Browne]

Dear Ms. Pelzmann,
How important are Slavic languages? Less important than they "should" be! Russian is taught at many colleges and universities, but the other languages are taught only at a small number. At my university, Cornell, we teach Russian, Polish, and BCS (I teach BCS. At the suggestion of one of my colleagues, we recently changed the name of the course from Serbo-Croatian to BCS). You can see some enrollment data (= number of students who are attending one or another course) at several websites:
http://www1.american.edu/research/CCPCR/COLLEGEENROLL.htm

http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/db/index.php

http://www.mla.org/2009_enrollmentsurvey

New textbooks are still being published for BCS; see

http://www.bcsgrammarandtextbook.org/

and, from the region itself,

http://rabic.ba/english.html.

And if you'd like to read about the history of Serbo-Croatian/BCS teaching in the United States, I could recommend my article in the book
Language in the Former Yugoslav Lands
Edited by Celia Hawkesworth and Ranko Bugarski
325 p., 2004 (ISBN 0-89357-298-5). The publisher is Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, Indiana. See
http://www.slavica.com/

Yours sincerely,
--
Wayles Browne, Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu
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Hey everybody,

I’m an international student from Austria studying at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock right now. When I’m finished with studying I would like to work as either a Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian teacher or interpreter. I would be really interested in finding out how important those languages are in the U.S. and if there are specific schools teaching all or one of those languages. How important are Slavic languages in general in the U.S.? I know that in Europe right now it is a trend to study Slavic and East European languages as they seem to be up and coming.

Thank you for your answers.

Viktoria Elena

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