For public and private organizations to operate successfully on the global stage, individuals are needed who can communicate across languages. Programs like the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) have been helping to cultivate the crucial skills needed for global engagement. In effort to connect speakers of less commonly taught languages (LCTL) with professional development …
Linguistic all-star acquires tenth language at UW Gaining proficiency in a new language can take years for some, but Stuart “Stu” McLaughlin studied his tenth language in a single summer at UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI). McLaughlin who is proficient in English, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Arabic, and conversational in Azerbaijani, has taken …