BCC offers the most comprehensive world language program on the Eastside. Choose from over a dozen languages, including American Sign Language and Latin. Our classes are designed around the needs of the adult learner and focused on helping you achieve your personal, professional, or travel-related language goals.
Want to raise your child bilingually? Not sure where to start? Afraid of making mistakes? This three-hour seminar will prepare parents, grandparents and other caregivers in the rewarding choice to raise their children bilingually and/or multilingually. Included is an overview of research on bilingual families, tips and strategies on getting started, activities for keeping multilingualism alive in your family as well as plenty of participant discussion.
Are you learning a second language? Are you a non-native English speaker? One of the keys to communicating effectively in another language is accent. Learn tools that will help you to analyze the accent in your language of interest as well as effective ways to train yourself to modify your accent to sound more "natural." Ms. Parker holds a BA in Linguistics and an MA in Phonetics as well as in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.
