Hours:
Sun - 1-5:30pm, 6:45-11pm
Mon-Thur - 9am-5:30pm, 6:45-11pm
Fri - 9am - 4:30pm
Sat - CLOSED
Means of contact:
Lab monitor, x3128
Multimedia Technician, Chris.P.Sullivan,
x3260
INTERNATIONAL TV
17 – Al-Jazeera (Arabic)
19 – CCTV-4 (Chinese)
21 – PNACC (Chinese)
23 – TV 5 Monde (French Educational)
25 – 3A Telesud (French African)
27 – Prosiebensat 1 Welt (German)
29 – RAI International (Italian Educational)
31 – TV Japan (Japanese Educational)
33 – NTV America (Russian Educational)
35 – Telemundo (Spanish)
37 – Univision (Spanish)
39 – CNN Español (Spanish News)
LANGUAGE LAB 
The Language Laboratory, located on the first floor of the North Academic Building, is an all-digital computer lab. The lab design centers on the changing modes of student learning, and remains up-to-date with format of materials available for foreign language study, as well as advancements in digital technology. The new lab accommodates individual and group study with delivery of audio and visual materials in digital format. The workspace is primarily reserved for students who wish to perfect their foreign language pronunciation, listen to passages in the original version, complete their language workbook exercises or write papers in any of the languages taught at Williams. Internet resources with educational content coexist with the more traditional media such as films, audio files and instructional CDs. The extensive foreign language video collection is in the process of being replaced with DVDs to be housed in Sawyer, and the college has already committed to streaming international TV to computers on the campus network, http://video.williams.edu.
Foreign language pedagogy has embraced technological developments that facilitate access to language exchange and authentic cultural matter, and the language lab is an ideal place for making connections to various types of materials that are useful for language study. At the lab, spontaneous as well as directed communication with other cultures is made possible in all the foreign languages taught at Williams.
You may find the lab on Facebook by searching for "Williams College CFLLC Language Lab."
Audio on-line
These audio/video pages use Quicktime movies. You may need to installed Quicktime Player for Windows from Apple's Website to be able to listen to the audio files.
Interactive media
Commercial multimedia programs available in the lab are:
The lab will make copies of any foreign broadcasts on a limited basis and upon request. Request forms and schedules are available at the reception desk of the Language Lab.
The Language Laboratory, located on the first floor of the North Academic Building, is an all-digital computer lab. The lab design centers on the changing modes of student learning, and remains up-to-date with format of materials available for foreign language study, as well as advancements in digital technology. The new lab accommodates individual and group study with delivery of audio and visual materials in digital format. The workspace is primarily reserved for students who wish to perfect their foreign language pronunciation, listen to passages in the original version, complete their language workbook exercises or write papers in any of the languages taught at Williams. Internet resources with educational content coexist with the more traditional media such as films, audio files and instructional CDs. The extensive foreign language video collection is in the process of being replaced with DVDs to be housed in Sawyer, and the college has already committed to streaming international TV to computers on the campus network, http://video.williams.edu.
Foreign language pedagogy has embraced technological developments that facilitate access to language exchange and authentic cultural matter, and the language lab is an ideal place for making connections to various types of materials that are useful for language study. At the lab, spontaneous as well as directed communication with other cultures is made possible in all the foreign languages taught at Williams.
You may find the lab on Facebook by searching for "Williams College CFLLC Language Lab."
Audio on-line
RUSS 103 - available on Blackboard
RUSS 202 - available through Blackboard
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR WINDOWS USERSThese audio/video pages use Quicktime movies. You may need to installed Quicktime Player for Windows from Apple's Website to be able to listen to the audio files.
Interactive media
Commercial multimedia programs available in the lab are:
- Arabic Tutorials
- Twin Bridges
- Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese
- Japanese Language Learning (Encarta)
- Mundraub (German)
- A la rencontre de Philippe
- Allons-y!
- French in Action
- Le Correcteur
- Le Petit Robert
- Dictionnaire Hachette
- Encyclopedique Hachette
- Le Grand Louvre
- Dans un quartier de Paris
- French Language Learning (Encarta)
- Paris: Promenades et histoire
- Rhythm of French
- Un meurtre a Cinet: An Internet Mystery Game
- Italian All the Way
- Who is Oscar Lake? (Italian)
- Prego!
- El Corrector
- Paradoja
- Puntos de Partida
- Recuerdos de Madrid
- Encyclopedia of Russian Biographies
- Kapusta
- Learn Russian Now (Transparent Language)
- Listening to Okudzhava: 23 Aural Comp. Exercises in Russian
- Live from Moscow (v.1, 2)
- Passport to Russia
- Russian Dictionary Tree
- Russian-English Dictionary of the Human Body
- START: Intro to Sound and Writing Systems in Russian
- Twelve Chairs (part I, II, III)
- Twelve Stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko
- Virtual St. Petersburg
- WordAce! Dictionary: Russian/English
- Speak Hebrew!
The lab will make copies of any foreign broadcasts on a limited basis and upon request. Request forms and schedules are available at the reception desk of the Language Lab.
