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[justinm at ucr.edu]

The Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) offers
intensive 
language and culture instruction from Beginning to Advanced level 
(enrollment numbers permitting) for Burmese, Filipino,
Indonesian, 
Hmong, Khmer, Javanese, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese.  The program
is open 
to both non-native and native speakers of these languages.  The 
following announcement concerns a special focus on Heritage
learners, 
available for five of the above languages.

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SEASSI offers university-level instruction in Filipino, Hmong,
Khmer, 
Lao and Vietnamese language and culture at multiple levels. 
Instruction 
is specifically geared toward native-speakers of those
languages who 
wish to learn to read or write and/or improve their formal
speaking 
skills.  If you already possess basic or intermediate-level
reading and 
writing skills in your language, there are several higher
level classes 
available at SEASSI in all of these five languages. If you
cannot speak 
or understand the language of your parents/grandparents at
all, SEASSI 
also offers beginning level classes, for which no previous
knowledge of 
the language is required.

To see examples of Filipino, Hmong, Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese
teaching 
materials used at SEASSI, student work, photos, and videos of
classroom 
activities and student projects, visit our newly  updated and
redesigned 
website:

http://www.seassi.wisc.edu/heritage/index.html

SEASSI will take place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
from June 
16 to August 8, 2008.  SEASSI is an intensive language program
where 
students have an opportunity to study only Southeast Asian
languages, 
five days a week, for two months.  Students receive one year
(2 full 
semesters) of foreign language credit for the program.

Several types of financial aid are available for SEASSI students, 
including the Heritage Fellowship.  It's not too early to
think about 
applying for next summer!  To read more about applying for the
program 
and receiving financial aid (including important application
deadlines), 
see:

http://www.seassi.wisc.edu

Please forward this announcement to anyone whom you think
might be 
interested in studying at SEASSI next year.  If you do forward
this 
e-mail, however, please be sure to include the entire message,
including 
the short header (above the line of asterisks) which begins
the e-mail.

yours,

Frank Smith
SEASSI Heritage Language Facilitator

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu