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Daily Illini, 5 March, 1999,
Mike Gunderson Daily Illini reporter
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Organizers are looking for anyone who speaks a foreign or uncommon language to help teach at the Festival of Languages. The festival is scheduled March 27 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The festival, which originated in France, will have about 50 languages represented. People who attend the festival can learn to say “I love you” in a different language or just appreciate another means of communication, according to Dennis Keefe, festival organizer and director of the Very Intensive International Preparation Program.
“It's good to get American and international students together,” said Keefe. “I bet there is one person running around campus who speaks Eskimo.”
The festival features languages spoken throuĝout the world as well as sign language and Pig Latin. Anyone interested in teaching a language at the festival is encouraged visit the Festival of Languages Web site at “www.linguafest.info”.