This past summer, the Language Center moved from the third floor of Christian A. Johnson Hall (CJ) to CJ 102. The Language Center’s location in CJ is deliberate, as CJ is home to the Language Department and the Office of Global Learning. The new space fosters a collaborative academic environment with natural light, two iMacs, closed-off study spaces and a kitchen with refreshments.

The Language Center offers students academic support in Arabic, Chinese, Classical Greek, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Spanish and Russian. Students can book individual hour-long sessions or recurring one-hour sessions with one of 18 peer tutors through TracCloud, Hamilton’s tutoring scheduling program. All peer tutors are students with extensive experience and skill in the language they tutor. Students can choose what topics they would like to focus on in their sessions, and can include grammar, test review, conversation practice, reading and listening comprehension and short presentation preparation.

Spanish tutor Hannah Lipskar ’25 said that she enjoys tutoring at the Language Center because “when I first began learning Spanish, I struggled with a lot of the ways that I was taught. I hope to show other students the ways in which I was able to figure out Spanish so that they can feel confident in speaking and understanding a new language.”

Language Center Coordinator Rachel Martinie noted that in addition to offering peer tutoring, “the Language Center is the meeting place for many language TA sessions and where students complete in lab writing assignments and work individually and in groups on assignments such as dubbing or other multimedia projects for their language courses.” Moreover, language faculty technology workshops are held in the Language Center along with lunch time language pedagogy roundtables.

The Language Center is open Sunday through Thursday from 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.