In Sports abroad we will learn that the most popular sports played in Francia, Mexico and Russia are no so much different from the sports practiced in the Unites Estates.

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This is the first episode of the Fall 2007 series of One Theme at a time. In this episode we talked with some of the Modern Languages Faculty asking them about an interesting event that happened in the world.

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This is the first episode of the Spring 2007 series of One Theme at a time. In Episode 12 we investigated the origen of the famous song: Happy Birtday to you, and discovered that it is not only a song created by two teachers from Kentucky, but that have been influencing the whole world since 1893!

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For this new episode of One Theme at a Time, we talked to some of our colleagues at the department, asking them what they were looking for when nominating one of their students for a particular Department Award.

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In A World outside your World, we went to the Fall WKU Study Abroad Fair to talk to some of the study abroad experts about how important is to participate in a Study Abroad program for students at a professional and personal level.

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In BG International Festival 06, the team of One Theme at a Time went to Bowling Green downtown to participate in the annual International Festival, talking with some of the many participants in this incredible mixed of cultures.

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In Stories of the Summer, the eight and first episode of One theme at a time during this fall 2006 semester we talked with several Modern Language faculty about their summer experiences. We asked them to share with us an interesting aspect of their travel abroad.

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In Class of 2006, the seventh and last episode of One theme at a time during this academic year we are bringing the 2006 WKU Graduation Ceremony to you with interviews with Modern Language faculty and students graduating with a major or a minor in a foreign language this year.

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In Pardon my French!, the sixth episode of One theme at a time we will talk about some interesting expressions that involve another culture or another language, and are used in different countries around the world.

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Today in Foreign languages go to Hollywood, the fifth episode of One theme at a time we are looking at the most representative foreign films in French, German, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish, nominated for an Oscar in the past 5 years.

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A Festival of Languages is episode 4 of One Theme at a Time podcast series of the WKU. This is a recorded live podcast that presents the annual regional International Foreign Language Festival celebrated on March 3th at Western Kentucky University. Over 800 High School students competed during the festival to classify for the final competition at the University of Kentucky.

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Two Critical Languages to Learn is the third episode of One Theme at a Time. In this episode we talk about President Bush's National Security Language Initiative to promote the study of less commonly taught languages, in our case Chinese and Russian. We spoke with professors Laura McGee, Haiwang Yan, and Charlie Pickle about critical languages in the Twenty first century and how Chinese and Russian are two languages more popular to learn than we cold have imagine.

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Winter Term Abroad is the second episode of One Theme at a Time. In this episode we will talk about two WKU 2006 winter term courses that took students to different Spanish speaking countries during two weeks to study the history and the agriculture of the visited regions in Mexico, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. We spoke with professor Susann Davis, and with Chelsey Shelton, a student that participated in the course visiting Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Mexico. Also we spoke with Stephany Peterson and Liz Tunks, both Spanish majors that went to Mexico to study the Mayan's ruins

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In Christmas in January, the first episode of One Theme at a Time we will hear about international holiday celebrations. Listen to our podcast and learn how other people in the world spent their Christmas break.

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