“Languages for every major” is our motto here at the LCLC, and we’re actively recruiting UIC students to register for Fall 2025 LCSL classes today, April 9, from 10AM to 1PM in SCE. Let your current students know they can stop by to pick up a button to represent their favorite language(s)! And read Kanimoli’s and Sounia’s language stories below

Meanwhile, our Language Learning Assistants are supporting 400 students every week during their 100-level classes. Do you want a Language Learning Assistant in your 100-level class next semester? Encourage your 104, 114, 200- or 300-level students to go to our Career Opportunities page and apply for Fall 2025. New next fall: Chinese and Latin! Continuing: Arabic, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

TODAY: Join us in 308 Grant Hall from 3:00-4:30PM for the Colors of India Art workshop led by Dr. Ruchi Rana, part 3 of the Knowing India event series. This is a hands-on workshop celebrating traditional Indian art forms: folk art, henna, mandala, rangoli, aipan, and kolam.

What do UIC students do with languages? Connect with family, build on their life and career dreams, and more. See below for Kanimoli's and Sounia’s thoughts about what language(s) mean to them.

Dolly and the LCLC Team: Marissa, Sabra, Brian, Hanna, and Colton

Above (top to bottom): Events in GH 308 – Dino Fabrizi visits and talks with UIC Italian students, and English Conversation Hour attendees enjoy pizza and chat; tutors/LLAs John (German), Frances (French), and Celeste (Spanish) work with BLP students in Grant Hall.

Interested in volunteering to help next Monday, April 14th? Sign up here! And thank you to all who have volunteered and spoken with students already. Here’s to a well-enrolled and fun Fall 2025 for all LCSL courses!

(Click any of the images below to view the registration timetable.)

You can read Kanimoli’s full language story here, and Sounia’s here, and check out dozens of others at this page on our website. We are eager to hear your own language stories, as well as those of your students and colleagues, too: here is the link to share!

Language and Culture Learning Center

301 Grant Hall, 703 South Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607

Email us! lclc@uic.edu