August 3 – 6 Concordia Language Villages hosted the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview workshop. Fifty language educators from across the United States came to Bemidji to receive training in how to assess…
Jim and Donna Kovala (Aarne and Oona) of Osage, Minn. received their five-year medallions at Salolampi’s closing program for session IB 68, when they came to pick up three of their grandchildren.  Elle LaMere (Elli), Tess Kovala (Tiia), and August…
If you missed July International Day, make sure to attend next Friday, August 14th. For more information, visit the I-Day Web Site.
Sue Marshall, a German teacher from Phillips, Wis., has been bringing her students to Village Weekends for the past eight years. She uses the weekends at Waldsee German Language Village as a hearty supplement to her classroom instruction. “Waldsee is…
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Join us as we celebrate the second International Day on August 14! Villagers, staff, and invited families and guests came together to celebrate the first International…
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Norwegian Language Village dean, Tove Dahl, has been named a Knight of the First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by His Majesty, King Harald V! She has served…
In 2007, Concordia Language Villages was proud and honored to be able to announce the Waldsee BioHaus, the first certified Passive House in North America, was nominated for two prestigious awards – in May the Transatlantic21 Association selected it in…
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By: Emmelyn Miri King, 8 years old
Hi, my name is Emmelyn and last year I was a beginer like you. The way I decided my language village was that my dad went to Korea and I…
From South Africa to China, India and beyond, nineteen-year-old Chloe Lewis has trekked the world on behalf of numerous organizations. She has worked in an orphanage in China’s Anhui province, participated in the AIDS Walk Africa in both South Africa…
The first year that eight-year-old twins Katie and Lucy attended the Language Villages, they came as day campers. Though their mother, Debbie Hamill, had been a villager herself at Waldsee from 1977 to 1980 and their siblings Grant and…
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