Chocolotl, tomatl, coyotl. Do you recognize these words? 

That´s right, we get "chocolate," "tomato," "coyote," and many other words from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec empire that is still spoken by about 2 million people.

Join the Náhuatl Study Group for our first weekly meeting this Wednesday, September 9 at 4:15 pm in Gilbert Hall room 309. Our goal is to study Nahuatl language, literature, and culture in a collaborative environment. 

Open to everyone interested in practicing their Portuguese language skills. Non-students are also welcome!

Fenton Gardner will present his paper "Double Trouble: Why clitic-doubling of strong pronouns is obligatory in Romance". The presentation will start at 3:00pm, and will last 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Brief abstract will be forthcoming. 

Mr. Gardner is a doctoral student in Romance Linguistics.

Congratulations to Dr. Susan Quinlan, Portuguese professor in the Department of Romance Languages, who received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference!

Please join us in recognizing our students graduating with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees and announce awards won by all of our graduate students during the 2014-15 academic year. A reception will follow the ceremony.

Two Romance Languages graduate students will present their research on:

Leah Lemberg, "Native and non-Native instructors discourse patterns and feedback in upper-level spanish classes."

Sophie Vainer, "The Effects of Digital Storytelling on Students' Creativity, Motivation, and Target Language Use with Audio and Visual Media."  

The Department of Romance Languages students and faculty would like to thank Dr. Amélia Hutchinson for her many years of service the University of Georgia. We wish you the very best in your retirement!

Two Romance Languages graduate students will present papers in the Romance Languages Colloquium: Julia Hernández on "Plinean Amerindians: Textuo-Visual Feedback Loops in the First European Accounts of the Americas" and Ximena González-Parada will discuss "Contesting National Narratives: Chocó and the Reimagining of Black Communities in Colombia."