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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

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Students can practice their foreign language skills with language partners in other countries via Skype through the Teletandem program.

Skype Links Language Partners

By Toby Hung October 24, 2014

The Teletandem program, which matches Georgetown students with language partners in other countries via Skype, expanded to include Spanish, Arabic, French, Japanese, Russian and Turkish this semester...

Romance Rewards in the Pursuit of Language Fluency

By Allison Hillsbery August 4, 2014

My great aunt once told me that she only learned French because she had a Parisian lover. I was 11 at the time and therefore considered this information both slightly disturbing and completely irrelevant...

LLC to Enhance Spanish Study

By Gene Choi January 14, 2014

A new Spanish and Portuguese Living Learning Community has entered its planning stage. Scheduled to start in the 2015-2016 academic year, the LLC marks Georgetown’s second Romance language-based community. “The...

Students, Faculty Mourn Loss of Spanish and Portuguese Professor

By Jonathan Gillis December 7, 2010

Abelardo Hernando, an adjunct assistant professor in the Spanish and Portuguese department for over 15 years, died of lung cancer last Wednesday. According to an email from the Office of the Provost,...

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