University of Arizona Critical Languages Series

12/02/2015

We offer 2 levels of Ukrainian language learning products:
“Beginning Ukrainian” and “Intermediate Ukrainian”, both by Oksana Sachyk, Ph.D.
Each peer reviewed product has thousands of audio and video clips of native speakers and is the equivalent of a one year college course. They also have extensive exercises and footnotes discussing grammatical and cultural issues. Here is a great review of our “Intermediate Ukrainian” published in the Computer Assisted Language Consortium (CALICO) Journal:https://www.calico.org/html/article_862.pdf

11/24/2015

Professor Dana Scott Bourgerie is now serving as chair of the BYU Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages. Professor Bourgerie is the author of both our Beginning Cantonese and Beginning Chinese language learning CD-ROMs. He was the founding director of the Chinese Flagship program at BYU from 2002 until 2013 and an Examiner for the University of Arizona Critical Languages Program for many years. http://asiane.byu.edu/directory/dsb/
http://cls.arizona.edu/can/

Directory entry and related info for Dana Scott Bourgerie

11/23/2015

Many thanks to Dr. Michael L. Chyet, US Library of Congress, for introducing us to the author of our Beginning Kurmanji Kurdish courseware, Dr. Deniz Ekici. Dr. Chyet was also a peer reviewer of our courseware during the 3 year development and testing process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Chyet
http://cls.arizona.edu/kur1

He is a cataloguer of Middle Eastern languages at the Library of Congress. Formerly he was senior editor of the Kurdish Service of the Voice of America and professor of Kurdish at the University of Paris and at the Washington Kurdish Institute.

11/20/2015

The Arizona in Turkey program is an eight-week summer program based in Izmir, Turkey. Izmir, located on the Aegean coast, is the third largest city in Turkey boasting a population of approximately three million. Arizona in Turkey courses are held on the campus of Dokuz Eylül University, one of Turke…

11/09/2015

This University of Arizona Press 40% off sale includes all 14 of our language learning CD/DVD-ROMs! Use promo code AZUPW15 at checkout: http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/series/series_detail.php?s=28

Celebrate University Press Week 2015 with 40% off UA Press books!

11/03/2015

The University of Arizona Critical Languages Series celebrates 16 years of publishing this year. Thanks to the thousands of students who have used our language learning courseware! http://cls.arizona.edu

Learn to speak a new language with software for Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, Chinese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurmanji Kurdish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Developed at the University of Arizona by experts and native speakers of the languages.

09/18/2015

All of our 14 language learning CD/DVD-ROMs are compatible with Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10. Software updates are available from http://cls.arizona.edu/resources/maxbrowser.htm …

If you are having trouble installing or using your CLS CD/DVD-ROM, you may need to download the latest version of our software which fixes issues related to new versions of Windows and has additional features not found in earlier versions. If you are using our latest Beginning Turkish DVD-ROM publis…

09/17/2015

Here is a behind-the-scenes photo taken during a break from the filming of our University of Arizona Critical Languages Series "Beginning Kurmanji Kurdish" language learning DVD-ROM, written+directed by Dr. Deniz Ekici. Here is one of the finished videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1HNRtOaIgU

09/04/2015

We offer 2 levels of Cantonese language learning products:
“Beginning Cantonese” by Dana Scott Bourgerie, Ph.D. and
“Intermediate Cantonese” by Beverly Hong-Fincher, Ph.D.

Each peer reviewed product has thousands of audio and video clips of native speakers and is the equivalent of a one year college course. They also have extensive exercises and footnotes discussing grammatical and cultural issues.
Here is a good review of our “Intermediate Cantonese” published in the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Journal:
https://www.calico.org/p-258-Intermediate%20Cantonese%20%2812006%29.html

09/02/2015

We've had 476,000 views on our YouTube channel! You can see sample videos from our language learning CD/DVD-ROMs in Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, Chinese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurmanji Kurdish, Turkish, and Ukrainian, see http://www.youtube.com/user/uaclp

University of Arizona Critical Languages Series - Languages Learning Courseware from the Critical Languages Program. More information at cls.arizona.edu

08/31/2015

A while back we presented our Turkish language learning courseware to the Turkish embassy in Washington, DC