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Kansas State University Students, Staff, and Faculty Complete “Bridging the Gap” Medical Interpreting Training

Modern Language faculty role-play an interpreting encounter.

Are you interested in finding new ways to use your Modern Languages degree?  Consider medical interpreting!  Medical interpreters work in health-care settings to “facilitate understanding in communication between people who are speaking different languages”  (A Textbook for Medical Interpreters, CCHP 2014). Between August 8-12, 2016, 11 Kansas State University students, faculty, and staff completed the “Bridging the Gap” medical interpreting training.  Continue reading “Kansas State University Students, Staff, and Faculty Complete “Bridging the Gap” Medical Interpreting Training”

Central Kansas Japanese Festival

Japanese Festival 2013

Tables are covered with origami cranes, vendors line the Union selling Japanese food and drinks, students bend over a Go board while a group of women play traditional Japanese music on the shamisen.  April 13th 2013 was the 18th annual Central Kansas Japanese festival organized by the Japanese Student Association in conjunction with the Japanese Language Program.  Continue reading “Central Kansas Japanese Festival”