Turkish Foreigner student Luke Penn-Hall found out about GLN from a friend of his. As a masters student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Luke is taking a class at GLN to round...
Veteran GLN teaching fellow, Maria Getahun, has been teaching Farsi with GLN for two years after being tipped off by a coworker....
Often times students are teachers, and teachers are students… and even still, some students are teachers, volunteers, and a part of the leadership for our GLN community.
Recently, Katerina Salas, aka Kati (re)joined us as...
Fellow alum Anne Marie Niandou Gbobia is from Cote-d'Ivoire. She has lived and taught French in the Washington, DC Metro Area since 2011. In addition to being a GLN alum, she is an alumna of the...
2009. I've taught 4 Hindi classes. In recent times since I’ve been...
Just a few weeks after they started learning Swahili, GLN’s beginning class was able to put together an entire cultural video — complete with costumes, props, song and dance — entirely in Swahili!
Other class projects featured potluck dinners of traditional Russian cuisine, a cookbook of Spanish food, and a video dialogue set in a Portuguese restaurant.
Shepherding these class projects were GLN’s language liaisons, who assist many of the network’s courses.
GLN’s language liaisons are motivated, outgoing students who get to play an active leadership role in a GLN class — engaging their fellow students, assisting the teacher with feedback and working with GLN itself.
Want to be a Language Liaison yourself? Our next round of applications opens Dec. 29! You can apply here.