Skip to main content.
Skip to main content.
Bard BerlinBard Berlin
BCB
  • About sub-menuAbout Us
    About BCB

    Discover Bard
    College Berlin

    Learn More
    • About Bard College Berlin
      • At a Glance
      • History
      • Governance
      • Accreditation
      • OSUN
      • Employment
    • Discover
      • People
      • Apply
      • Donate
      • COVID-19 Safety
      • Search
  • Academics sub-menuAcademics
    BCB Academics

    Bard College Berlin offers high-quality small-group teaching in the humanities and social sciences.

    • Degree Programs
      • BA in Economics, Politics,
        and Social Thought
      • BA in Humanities,
        the Arts,and Social Thought
      • BA in Artistic Practice
        and Society
      • Concentrations
      • Core Curriculum
      • German Studies Program
    • Semester and
      One-Year Programs

      • Academy Year Program
      • Project Year Program
      • Arts and Society in Berlin
      • LAB: Liberal Arts Berlin
      • Begin in Berlin
      • Study Abroad
      • Erasmus and Exchange Agreements
    • More Information
      • Courses
      • Internships
      • Certificates
      • Language and Thinking Program
      • Summer Programs
      • Academic Services
  • Admissions sub-menuAdmissions
    BCB Admissions

    Bard College Berlin accepts applications for first-year and transfer admission to its BA degree programs. Students can also apply for one-year programs, such as the Academy Year and Project Year.

    Apply Now
    • Applying to BCB
      • How to Apply
      • Discover BCB
      • Connect with Us
      • Ask a Student
      • Admissions Team
    • Financing Your Studies
      • Tuition and Fees
      • Financial Aid
      • Scholarships
      • Payment Options
  • Student Life sub-menuStudent Life
    Student Life

    The student body at Bard College Berlin is small yet highly international.

    More About Students
    • Campus Life
      • Housing
      • Facilities
    • Services and Resources
      • BCB Orientation
      • Career Services
      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
      • Gender-Based Misconduct
      • Health & Counseling
      • Internships
      • Student Organizations & Activities
      • Study Abroad
    • For Students
      • Registrar's Office
      • Academic Calendar
      • Student Handbook
      • Jobs & Opportunities
      • Finances
      • Fellowship Opportunities
  • Civic Engagement sub-menuCivic Engagement
    Civic Engagement

    Through Fellowships, conferences, events and community initiatives, the college encourages students to organize and lead their own volunteer projects and to connect with activists around the world.

    Learn More
    • Engagement Programs
      • Program for International Education
        and Social Change (PIESC)
      • Student-Led Projects
      • Community Engagement
      • Institutional Engagement
  • COVID-19
  • News sub-menuNews + Events
    BCB News
    • Newsroom
      • Events
      • Video Archive
      • Bard College Berlin in the Media

    Keep up to date with the latest campus news, learn more about upcoming events, read press articles featuring Bard College Berlin, and explore our photo and video archives.

    Learn More
  • Donate
  • Search
Main Image for Lingo 101

Lingo 101

Civic Menu
  • Overview
  • PIESC
  • Student-Led Projects
  • CE sub-menuCommunity Engagement
    • Campus Conversations
    • Pankumenta
    • Real Talk Series
    • Volunteer Opportunities
  • IE sub-menuInstitutional Engagement
    • PIESC
    • Socrates Project
    • CFMDE
    • OLIve
Our college campus unites students from over 60 countries who speak over 40 different languages. This project seeks to improve language and cultural exchange offers at Bard College Berlin both on and off-campus. It takes steps to build platforms to share these resources among students and with the Berlin community.
For the project, BCB native speakers of different languages volunteer to offer regular get-togethers and tutoring for other students on campus to develop their skills in languages not offered by BCB in academic courses. Starting in 2016 with Arabic, the project offered Arabic, Turkish, Spanish, and Russian in the 2017-2018 academic year. Participants and students from other institutions aiming to improve their language skills are invited to join the tutoring classes with Bard students. Lingo 101 works with external Berlin projects on language learning or tandem organizations such as such as Sprach- und Kulturbörse TU Berlin and HU Sprachbörse.
Student coordinator: Ibrahim Bozdemir

Student coordinator: Ibrahim Bozdemir


As a Turkish national who only learned how to speak proper Turkish at the age of 14 and who could not speak English fluently until university, the lack of opportunity to learn new languages has always troubled me. Given that German is the only language offered at BCB despite its international community, I was happy and motivated to further expand the existing Arabic 101 lessons, in which I had already participated in as a student myself.
As we say in Turkish, "One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people." Lingo 101 draws inspiration from this saying.

Project testimonial

Ibrahim Bozdemir speaks about Lingo 101 at the 2018 Get Engaged student conference 

Listen to the audio

Teacher Testimonials

  • İbrahim Bozdemir
     
    Turkish cannot be learned, but only experienced. I was there to make that experience real for the interested.
  • Mariia Mishchenko
    Russian 101 was fun. At first I was curious but also a little hesitant to try teaching my mother tongue -- sure, I know it well enough, but could I help others learn? It turned out to be great and gave me an opportunity to think about my language in a way I hadn't before, not to mention it felt good to have taught others (even if only basics).
  • Mohannad Kaikanni
    Learning a new language always adds to your original language. When I learned English, I discovered many expressions that do not exist in Arabic. Thus, through teaching Arabic I wanted to show my English-speaking peers new expression that do not exist in their language. But again, I myself learned a lot through the questions of the participants. In my language I know “how” to say things correctly but in some cases I never thought about "why." We compared expressions and phrases between our different languages and this exchange truly stimulated my imagination and my thoughts beyond foreign language vocabulary.

Lingo 101 photo gallery

`
`
`
`
`
  • Lingo 101 1
  • Lingo 101 2
  • Lingo 101 3
  • Lingo 101 4
  • Lingo 101 5
Quick Links

Quick Links

  • Civic Engagement on the student blog
  • Civic Engagement in OSUN
  • Civic Engagement on Social Media
  • Socrates Project in OSUN
  • BCB Educational Mission
Apply Now to BCB

  • Contact
    Contact the Office of Civic Engagement
    Phone: +49 (0)30 43733 -121 / -141 
    Email: [email protected]

    Contact the Socrates Project
    Phone: +49 (0)30 43733 -121 / -141 
    Email: [email protected]

    Inquire about BCB
BCB Logo, Address, and Links

Bard College Berlin, A Liberal Arts University gGmbH

Mailing address: Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 43733 0
Fax: +49 30 43733 100
Email: [email protected] 
[email protected]

Directions | Contact Us | Impressum | Cookie Policy | Data Policy

Bard College Berlin is institutionally accredited at the national level in Germany by the Wissenschaftsrat.

In the United States, Bard College Berlin is accredited through
Bard College by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Qualifying students receive both a German BA and an American BA. 
Wordpress Blog
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube