We now offer tutoring for some languages. See hours here.
Academic Resources is dedicated to providing academic and multimedia support to language students at the University of Florida. This mission includes working with language faculty to identify or create appropriate audio, visual, and computer-based materials, and to ensure that students can access materials in and out of the classroom, legally and conveniently. The Language Studio also houses materials for independent study of a number of languages. Academic Resources also hosts tabling, tutoring, and language club activities to support language learning at UF.
For some students at UF, the choice to study a language seems like a “no-brainer”–it’s an opportunity to connect with their own families’ heritage, or to enter a culture that has attracted them for years, or to improve a resumé for business or foreign service. For others, it seems pointless–after all, everybody speaks English, right? And learning a new language is hard for most young adults; it is necessarily an intense experience and challenges assumptions about the world embedded in our daily speech. In fact, learning a new language makes the young adult brain develop physically in a way other college subjects do not. Bilingualism is understood to make mental processes more resilient throughout one’s life. Learning a language is something worth doing for yourself.