UE Annual Linguapalooza Planned for October 6

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The University of Evansville’s Department of Foreign Languages will host its annual Linguapalooza on Tuesday, October 6, in Eykamp Hall in Ridgway University Center on UE’s campus. The event begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 2:00 p.m.

This is the eleventh year for this all-day event, during which 155 students from 13 local high schools will attend conversational and interactive sessions in the language and culture of their choice. During the final session, students will be initiated into a language that they are not currently studying, such as Chinese, French, Gaelic, German, Portuguese, or Russian. The students will also take a tour of campus conducted in the language they are studying at their respective schools.

Schools represented this year include Boonville, Bosse, Castle, Evansville Day School, Forest Park, Harrison, Heritage Hills, Loogootee, Mater Dei, North, Princeton, Tecumseh and Tell City high schools.

For more information on the event, please contact UE’s Department of Foreign Languages at 812-488-2165