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We have three field trips for students of Spanish based on our Virtual Cruise to Puerto Rico. They are forcused on the Food, Music, and a Story of Puerto Rico.
A Virtual Cruise to Puerto Rico
Use your imagination to travel to Puerto Rico and explore the language, culture, food, music, natural beauty, and visual arts of the island. Board here for A Virtual Cruise to Puerto Rico
Spanish Story: Mi Mascota do Ojos Amarillos
Padlet for Virtual Field Trip Exploring Puerto Rico and its Food
Padlet is an interactive application like a classroom bulletin board with multimedia options.
Preview some of the activities students engaged in as they explored Puerto Rico with us.
Language Trivia Game
How much do you know about language?
Test your knowledge with our trivia game.
Spanish Trivia Game
How much do you know about the Spanish language?
Test your knowledge with our trivia game.
Chinese Trivia Game
How much do you know about the Chineselanguage?
Test your knowledge with our trivia game.
Chinese Kahoot
Play a game
Check how much you know about China and its language.
Stories in English and Other Languages
Sharing Our Stories
Choose from 17 languages to read and hear stories from around the world.
Click on a location shown on the map below to see the stories from that location.
Dictionary of American Regional English
Learn about Language Researchers
Stories, a game and quiz
DARE is based on face-to-face interviews carried out in all 50 states between 1965 and 1970. Graduate students, primarily from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, conducted interviews and made recordings of speakers in communities across the country. The stories that you will find in this exhibit are based on the fieldworkers’ memoirs published in the DARE newsletter.
Arthur the Rat
How did this short story help dialect researchers?
In this video you ca hear accents from people in different regions of the U.S. and of different ages. They reflect the variety of speech patterns collected by the DARE researchers.
Teacher Notes
Pre-visit and post-visit activities are included in each padlet for the field trips.