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Refreshments provided!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/UPwSxkwcx2\">Questions?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented by World Languages and Cultures, a C21 collaboratory, in partnership with the Center for Student Experience and Talent and the American Sign Language\/English Interpreting Program, the Department of Global Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Translation and Interpreting Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Source: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/468\/2024\/10\/Language-Works-flyer.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/468\/2024\/10\/Language-Works-flyer.webp\" alt=\"Language Works Flyer\" class=\"wp-image-22276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/468\/2024\/10\/Language-Works-flyer.webp 800w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/468\/2024\/10\/Language-Works-flyer-232x300.webp 232w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/468\/2024\/10\/Language-Works-flyer-791x1024.webp 791w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/468\/2024\/10\/Language-Works-flyer-768x994.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\/10 U.S. employers rely on employees with language skills other than English. 56% of U.S. employers say their demand for employees with language skills other than English will increase in the next 5 years.* Even a few semesters of language &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32664,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[108,65,66,49,51,52,54,109],"class_list":["post-22275","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-arabic-event","tribe_events_cat-comp-lit-event","tribe_events_cat-department-event","tribe_events_cat-events","tribe_events_cat-french-event","tribe_events_cat-global-studies-event","tribe_events_cat-italian-event","tribe_events_cat-japanese-event","cat_arabic-event","cat_comp-lit-event","cat_department-event","cat_events","cat_french-event","cat_global-studies-event","cat_italian-event","cat_japanese-event"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World Languages &amp; 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