Language Exchange Program
SBCC International Student Program
Welcome to our Language Exchange Program!
Do you want to have a partner to brush up the language you are learning?
Do you have friends who are interested in your language and culture?
Do you want to learn more about a culture, deeper than just food and music?
Join our program and have fun with us throughout this semester!
You DON'T NEED TO BE GOOD AT TEACHING YOUR LANGUAGE!
Our program focuses on having fun and connecting with others as you are learning!
We will send you weekly "Topics" to chat about with your partner in our Newsletter
to spark your conversations.
Beginning Spring semester 2021, we are launching an active and supportive community for our participants through Discord.com! (Joining Discord is NOT MANDATORY)
About the program
This project originated in 2005 as a collaboration between many SBCC departments, and is now coordinated through the International Education Center. We welcome all SBCC students who are multilingual or who are learning a new language to join our student-led community.
To provide a space for students (not only but especially ESL, international, and School of Modern Language students) to practice a language they are learning with a native speaker, as well as learn the culture behind the language.
Two Main components:
1. Pair-Up (Group) Meetings
We will match you with other students based on your language-learning preference.
You and your partner(s) will meet via Zoom on your own. Every week we will send you
a "newsletter" with suggestions of topics to talk about with your partner(s)!
2. Online Community
Through Discord.com, we are providing an active and supportive community for our participants!
You can chat and connect with other LEP participants, as well as approach us with
any concerns or questions. Joining Discord is NOT MANDATORY, but we will encourage you to try it out.
- For steps to join Discord Server: CLICK HERE
- Please review the Discord Server Rules: CLICK HERE
The Photo Collage Project will be a collection of pictures that represents or reminds participants of their cultures. Please submit one original photo you have taken of something, someone, or some place that reminds you of your culture. We would also appreciate it if you could write a short description of it and what it means to you.
Examples of what the photo may be: colors, textures, an item, food, landscape, or event that is related to your culture.
The collage will be hung up on the SBCC Main Campus, and the individual photos will be posted on our Instagram page as well!
To get the project started, please submit a photo .
Registration will be available from January 18 (Mon), 9am (PST) to January 24, (Sun) 11:59pm (PST) through the form below.
Registration deadline extended to Tuesday, January 26 at 6 PM (PST).
To sign up for our program after the deadline, please send your request to our email address. (sbcclanguageexchange@gmail.com)
Requirements to join our program
- You need to be an SBCC student, teacher or alumnus.
- You need to attend our opening event held on 1/26 (Tue) 9pm OR 1/27 (Wed) 11am PST. You will choose which date you will participate in the sign up form. Mandatory part is only 10 min
- If you are not able to attend the opening event but still want to participate in the program, please send us an email with the reason why you can’t attend before January 25 (Mon) noon (PST). We take this email as attendance for the event.
- For more information, CLICK HERE
- To sign up for volunteer, CLICK HERE
Please sign-up either as a participant or volunteer. Please DO NOT SIGN-UP FOR BOTH.
For more -in-depth information and instruction, we have created a Digital Backpack to guide you through our program.
Check out our Digital Backpack for more information! CLICK HERE
Program Overview
