World Languages Day

Michigan State University hosts World Languages Day each spring. This event brings hundreds of participants, presenters, and volunteers to campus for a day-long conference on world cultures and languages, globalization, the importance of learning foreign languages, and the positive impact knowledge of other languages can have on future career paths. High school students, parents, and teachers from across the state come to learn more about MSU and the myriad international opportunities it offers. Participants choose from approximately 90 sessions taught by MSU faculty, graduate students, and community members on topics as diverse as:

- Balalaikas, babushkas, and…turnips? Russian folk traditions
- What’s your destination? Foreign languages and your career path
- Where Mulan sword meets fighting fan: Chinese martial arts
- Luxembourg: A multilingual country in the heart of Europe
Kanga: The Swahili cloth with a message
- Extinction is not just for dinosaurs: What happens when languages go the way of the triceratops
- How not to offend a Swede
- Odissi: The fluidity of Indian classical dance
- The role of language analysts in the FBI today