Tom Braslavsky, a Hatchet columnist, writes about the advantages of the Global Language Network for students without much time.
“At the close of my first semester taking a GLN class (Beginning Arabic), I wholeheartedly give the experience two-thumbs-up.
“My class is convenient because it meets for two hours every weekend at the Marvin Center and doesn’t get in the way of the busy week. However, a two-hour class period can fit a lot of information. I come back from class with pages and pages of notes that, if I get the urge, I can look over and practice (there is no official homework). This more laid back approach means that in a GLN class, you can get out of it as much work as you put in.”
Read his full column here.
George Patsourakos
Students at George Washington University are lucky to have the Global Language Network (GLN), a nonprofit organization that provides free, noncredit classes in various languages. A two-hour class in a chosen language may be taken by a student every week — including weekends — with no homework. The GLN nontraditional classes have no grades and are usually taught on campus by volunteer native speakers. Indeed, students at GWU would be wise to take advantage of the GLN, since it allows them to learn a foreign language that they might not otherwise have been able to do — and at no cost to them!