Learning Norwegian
In December 2025, I went to Bergen, Norway to see how much Norwegian I could learn (from scratch) in a nine-day sprint. The following paper details that experiment. I used a combination of direct instruction, mnemonic strategies, interaction, and journaling to see how far I could get. It was a fun project and I hope…
Presenting at the Conference on Innovative Approaches to Language Education
Lincoln Snyder April 3, 2026 The Central New York Humanities Corridor and Colgate University hosted a conference on Innovative Approaches to Language Education on March 27-28, and I was honored to present my research on language revitalization efforts in Pennsylvania Dutch. The conference featured twin keynote speakers, Meg Malone (of ACTFL and Georgetown University) and…
Memory and Counter-Archives: Dismantling the Communicative Silence in Nora Krug’s Heimatand Bianca Schaalburg’s Der Duft der Kiefern
Lincoln Snyder December 18, 2025 Memory and Counter-Archives: Dismantling the Communicative Silence in Nora Krug’s Heimatand Bianca Schaalburg’s Der Duft der Kiefern For some families, silence is the loudest sound in the home. In the living rooms of post-war West Germany, silence filled the spaces amidst the colorful noise of the Wirtschaftswunder, functioning not as…
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