Why learn a world language? Videos made by students

Students, I could tell you all the benefits of learning a world language. I could go ON and ON about the opportunities you get when you able to respectfully and appropriately communicate in another language. I could babble for hours about my own journey of language learning.  Like that job I had in Switzerland calling people and asking for their current contact information in Spanish and French, or the job in Mexico where I helped research the possibility of a National Football League team on the border of Mexico. We all know that you would probably not be impressed.

These videos of students describing how learning a world language are impressive. They are way better. Watch them.

Hot Tamale Activities (email me at bordner@cityhigh.org)

• rank the top 5 videos and explain why you like them
• choose 3 videos and give suggestions on how you would improve them
• plan your own video! What would you show? What would you say?

Your hair dryer/phone charger won't work in many other countries

Ladies and gentlemen - I am doing you a HUGE favor by telling you this now as opposed to you finding out the hard way.

OUTLETS ARE DIFFERENT IN OTHER PLACES

This means you have to buy/borrow a dohickie (aka adapter) to plug in between your phone charger and the international outlet. And ladies, I cannot tell you how many times I have ruined a perfectly good hair dryer or hair iron because the wattage is also different in other countries. (Pro tip - get comfortable going natural with your hair or waste money on a appliance once you get to the country you're going to.)

Hot Tamale Activities (email your response to bordner@cityhigh.org)

• identify the country for the flags - extra bonus include the watt power
• send me links to different adapters that you can buy online and tell me which one I should get and why

How to Laugh online in Different Languages

There's a lot of ways to laugh online in English

LOL

hahaha

teehee

:D

But how to translate that to another language? Read this article to find out how to laugh online in 12 different languages.

Hot Tamale Activities (email me at bordner@cityhigh.org)

• find images like this (or create your own) using different language laughs
• create a Google Map with laughs from around the world (check out how to do this in these 2 videos here and here. Different project, same tool)
• figure out and explain to me how to type those Chinese marks (I have no idea!)
• explain which one of those is the most interesting to you? Why?