http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages Facilitate cutting-edge research about world languages at UCLA en-us More than 400 students took advantage of L.A.'s linguistic diversity this summer by signing up for Language Intensives in L.A., organized by the Center for World Languages and Summer Sessions.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=111306In innovative summer courses on campus, speakers of less commonly taught languages such as Hindi, Persian and Russian learn advanced skills and keep their heritages alive.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=111154Two summer courses on campus for the high school set, Persian for Persian Speakers and Russian for Russian Speakers, are about acquiring the skills to impress in languages that L.A.-area students have used since they were small children. The UCLA Center for World Languages created the courses with federal funding.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=95559People come to America from around the world...to lose their native languages. As part of a national, UCLA-based effort that aims to reverse language loss, Terrence Wiley of Arizona State University and his graduate students are pointing out the importance of local resources, ethnic media, and community-based language teaching.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=93249As the driving force behind a string of courses aimed at strengthening UCLA's ties to the Spanish-speaking community in Los Angeles, Plann was recently named by the Academic Senate as the faculty winner of the 2008 Fair and Open Academic Environment Award.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=92828According to Derek Bickerton of the U of Hawaii, the convergent evolution of creole languages permits us a window into the "default settings" of human speech.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=90563Innovative language teaching doesn't have to be high-tech, but in a new media age the foreign language classroom is changing. This newly launched website looks into how.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=88740UCLA's National Heritage Language Resource Center held its first annual conference at UC Davis in 2007. Participants laid the groundwork for K-12 and college students to advance skills in the non-English languages they learned at home.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=77314Three students, under the aegis of the Center for World Languages, part of the International Institute, launched a monthly online journal that celebrates L.A. and its astonishing linguistic diversity.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=63206With student-interns as reporters, the UCLA Center for World Languages launches an online magazine devoted to the city's linguistic diversity.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=62812