{"id":12182,"date":"2012-03-22T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=12182"},"modified":"2012-03-22T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:35:35","slug":"fourth-annual-world-language-day-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2012\/03\/22\/fourth-annual-world-language-day-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Annual World Language Day This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12183\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2012\/03\/22\/fourth-annual-world-language-day-this-weekend\/wld-photo-2-umw-hand-percussion-club-performs-as-wld-participants-look-on\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12183\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12183\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12183\" title=\"WLD photo 2\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/WLD-photo-2-UMW-Hand-Percussion-Club-performs-as-WLD-participants-look-on.-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UMW Hand Percussion Club performs for World Language Day participants<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Saturday, March 24, University of Mary Washington\u2019s Department of Modern Foreign Languages will give area high school students a chance to see what they offer through the Fourth Annual World Language Day, an annual outreach program dedicated to the appreciation and study of foreign languages.<\/p>\n<p>On World Language Day, more than 100 high school students from across Virginia will spend a day at the university participating in competitions in foreign languages.<\/p>\n<p>Marcel Rotter, founder of the event and associate professor of German, was inspired to start the event when he witnessed a day celebrating German language and culture at the University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that it seemed like something we should have here at Mary Washington, but I decided to include everyone by having all the major languages,\u201d said Rotter.<\/p>\n<p>With a whole day dedicated to languages, the event reinforces how important languages are at UMW and shows potential future students what the UMW foreign language department can offer them.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about World Language Day, read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/21\/umw-department-of-foreign-languages-to-present-fourth-annual-world-language-day\/\">press release from Wednesday, March 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[caption id=\"attachment_12183\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"300\" caption=\"UMW Hand Percussion Club performs for World Language Day participants\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2012\/03\/22\/fourth-annual-world-language-day-this-weekend\/wld-photo-2-umw-hand-percussion-club-performs-as-wld-participants-look-on\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12183\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12183\" title=\"WLD photo 2\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/WLD-photo-2-UMW-Hand-Percussion-Club-performs-as-WLD-participants-look-on.-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\n<p>On Saturday, March 24, University of Mary Washington\u2019s Department of Modern Foreign Languages will give area high school students a chance to see what they offer through the Fourth Annual World Language Day, an annual outreach program dedicated to the appreciation and study of foreign languages.<\/p>\n<p>On World Language Day, more than 100 high school students from across Virginia will spend a day at the university participating in competitions in foreign languages.<\/p>\n<p>Marcel Rotter, founder of the event and associate professor of German, was inspired to start the event when he witnessed a day celebrating German language and culture at the University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that it seemed like something we should have here at Mary Washington, but I decided to include everyone by having all the major languages,\u201d said Rotter.<\/p>\n<p>With a whole day dedicated to languages, the event reinforces how important languages are at UMW and shows potential future students what the UMW foreign language department can offer them.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about World Language Day, read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/21\/umw-department-of-foreign-languages-to-present-fourth-annual-world-language-day\/\">press release from Wednesday, March 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5991,"featured_media":12183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[658,7961],"class_list":{"0":"post-12182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-whats-new-umw","8":"tag-modern-foreign-languages","9":"tag-mrotter","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}