Online students taking a world language course will need to submit written work with the correct accent marks or they may lose credit on that assignment. Students typing in another language may need to include special accent marks, characters, or punctuation depending on the language they are learning. 

Here are a few resources available to students to help!

Being born into a bilingual family, I have never thought about how beneficial it could be to speak another language. My parents did a great job creating an environment that helped me learn two languages easily. At the age of five, I started learning my third language, and by the age of eight, I could read, write, and speak three languages: Ukrainian, Russian, and English. During my university years, I started learning two more foreign languages, French and German.Then, I faced the reality that learning complex languages can be very challenging, not like in my childhood. It can be difficult to comprehend varying verb conjugation, genders, and numeric systems. 

Bon jour. Comment allez-vous? In case you were wondering, this means “Hello, how are you?” in French. It seems like forever since I took my first French class in high school, but one thing is for sure: I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I signed up for it. To be honest, I learned much more than how to say a few phrases in a foreign language. In fact, there were quite a few unexpected benefits I received from my French class that you stand to gain too, when you sign up for a French class.