This event is organized by the French and Italian Graduate Students Association in collaboration with the Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the French and Italian Department.
The event will be followed by a refreshment.
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Melissa Sigrist, graduated from the Ohio State University in Foreign Language Education with a specialization in French. Apart from fluency in French, Melissa also speaks German and Japanese.
After being an educator for many years, Melissa switched tracks and embarked on a career in the travel industry. Since 2013 she has been a Tour Leader for an international travel company, Women Traveling Together, based in Annapolis, MD. Her work includes traveling with small groups of women all over the world and training new tour leaders.
For Melissa, foreign languages have always been a tool for creating connections with people of other cultures, in the US and abroad. In this talk, she will provide her perspective on how studying foreign languages has helped her in her own career and opened new opportunities. Further, Melissa will speak about how learning a foreign language has been an enriching personal experience, allowing her to better understand people who experience life differently and teaching her to be comfortable with her own vulnerabilities while speaking in a foreign tongue.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures at cllc@osu.edu or 614-292-4361 to leave a voicemail. Requests made by Thursday, March 9th 2023 will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
