Language Directions Newsletter
March 2015
Everyone’s a Little Irish on St. Patrick’s Day!
Everyone is “a little Irish” on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. How delightful! Especially in light of all the cultural divisions in the country and world that always seem to be in the local, national, and international news, I think it’s a wonderful thing to see people sharing another culture’s holiday. Someday, I hope the joyful embrace of different cultures will be the norm, not the exception.Read more…
February 2015
2015: The Year of the Goat
Chinese New Year 2015 welcomed the Year of the Goat. Decorations reflect this and people born under the Goat sign will hope to have a lucky year. Dragon Dances were held in the streets of cities all over the country and most restaurants served special menus of foods to commemorate the new year. Many Chinese arrived in the US as immigrant workers building the huge railroad network across the country. Linguistically, like all immigrant groups, they brought with them words that quickly became a part of the fabric of the English language.Did you know these words originated in China?
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January 2015
New Year, New Location
Language Directions has moved! Our new, larger office is located at 101 Eisenhower Parkway, Suite 408, in Roseland, NJ. Same town, same email, same phone.We will be forming small group accent reduction and English conversation classes in our conference room and will continue to offer ServSafe© food manager certification classes in Spanish, Chinese, and Korean in our new office. We will also continue to serve as a testing center for ServSafe© and for TOEIC©.
December 2014
Express What You Mean in 2015
This is the time of the year when most folks’ thoughts turn to wishes for peace and harmony. If all of us can learn to “play together in the same sandbox”, I believe the world will be a better place. At Language Directions, we try very hard to do what we can to help make that happen. Everything we do and everything we teach has the ultimate goal of focusing on increasing understanding, building cultural tolerance through awareness, and working better together to conquer language and cultural barriers. Being “different” is not being “wrong” or “stupid.”Read more…