What’s New

CONVERSATION TABLES AT CAFE BABEL

We will be continuing our foreign language conversation tables starting the week of January 7th! They will be free and available to students and non-students at any level. Drop in to mingle and meet new conversation partners. SLA Conversation Tables 2008 schedule.

HOST AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT

On Friday, March 14, Seattle Language Academy and Café Babel will host an informational event for those interested in volunteering as a host family with FIUTS (Foundation for International Understanding Through Students). Housed on the University of Washington campus, FIUTS welcomes hundreds of new UW international students to the Seattle area every year. Friends and students of SLA are cordially invited to attend from 5:00 to 6:30 pm. to meet FIUTS staff and volunteer host families. Please contact Alicia van der Veen at alicia@fiuts.org to attend, or visit www.fiuts.org to learn more about hosting a student.

HOMER’S ODYSSEY

‘Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy …’

For more information please read the course description. Registration can be done online, via phone, or in person.

CAFÉ BABEL NOW OPEN

With Café Babel, Seattle Language Academy envisions a vibrant addition to its ‘campus’ life – English students flocking to the café before and after class in the morning; foreign-language students animating it at night; and the SLA staff, the school’s neighbors and surprised passers-by dropping in at all hours of the day. We are very excited about the café’s potential for enhancing the sense of community at SLA, and are delighted at the simple convenience for our staff and our students of having such a wonderful establishment on site.

STUDY ABROAD IN BERGAMO, ITALY - September 2008

Seattle Language Academy is pleased to announce the launch of its first Study Abroad program. In September 2008, students of Italian are invited to attend a two-week immersion course from the 8th to the 19th in Bergamo, Italy, organized jointly by Seattle Language Academy and the University of Bergamo. For more information please click here. To download an application for the program, click here.

There will be an information session on Friday, April 18th from 4:00 - 5:30pm at Cafe Babel.

BEST LANGUAGE SCHOOL 2006

SLA is pleased to have been voted ‘Best Language School’ in the 2006 ‘Best of Seattle’ readers’ poll conducted by The Seattle Weekly. To see the listing, click on the link and scroll down: Best Language School.