World Languages

OVERVIEW

The World Language Department believes that the study of a second language is essential to the development of the whole person.  As we educate young men for life in the twenty-first century, it is essential that they be infused with an awareness of the cultural, linguistic and sociological diversity that will provide them the sensitivity to co-exist in a multi-ethnic society.  In responding to our role as educators in the Xaverian tradition, the department offers a program that balances proficiency and precision of language with respect and an appreciation for the cultures of those peoples whose languages we study.

By the time he is graduated, a student who has completed all four years will have acquired a strong level of proficiency in a second language so that he may become, in Napoleon’s dictum, “worth another person.”

COURSE LISTING

• Chinese I 
• Advanced Chinese I
• Chinese II 
• Chinese III
• Chinese IV 
• Advanced Placement Chinese
• Beginning French I
• Advanced French I
• Freshman French II
• French II
• French III

• French IV
• Advanced Placement French
• Beginning Spanish I
• Advanced Spanish I
• Freshman Spanish II
• Spanish II
• Spanish III
• Spanish IV
• Spanish V
• Advanced Placement Spanish

DEPARTMENT MEMBERS

 
Mr. Michael Aristide
extension: 501
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Mr. Salvatore Della Cioppa
extension: 558
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Mr. Albert DeLuca
extension: 586
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Mr. Thomas Duggan
extension: 515
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Mr. Benjamin Lizotte 
extension: 530
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Mr. Ming Lu
extension: 557
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Mrs. Ann Shi , Department Chair
extension: 295
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Mr. Bolivar Vivanco
extension: 567 
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