Seeking Fluent Arabic Volunteers for International Dialogues
Learning Life seeks fluent speakers of Arabic in metro Washington D.C. to help with language interpreting from English to Arabic and vice versa for our Citizen Diplomacy Initiative(CDI).
CDI engages lower-income American families in Washington D.C. in live internet dialogues and project collaborations with lower-income families in other nations to nurture more caring and capable global citizens. We are currently completing a photovoice project which is engaging nine families in DC, Dakar (Senegal) and Jerash (Jordan) in photo-taking in answer to the question “what is the past, present and future of your community?”
Our live dialogue interpreters translate the families’ and Learning Life moderator’s words as they proceed with their live dialogues during the course of their project together. The dialogues typically occur via Skype in public libraries in DC 1-2 times per month on Saturday or Sunday early afternoons DC time, and after dinner in Jerash, Jordan. The time commitment is about 4-6 hours per month, or 2-3 hours per dialogue, including about 1.5 hours for the live dialogue (where the live language interpreting happens) plus preparatory and reflective discussion in English before and after the dialogue led by a trained Learning Life moderator.
This volunteer opportunity is a valuable way to practice your live interpreting skills while helping to nurture mutual understanding between Americans and Arabs through an innovative citizen diplomacy program. Fluency is a must, and native Arabic speakers are preferred.
Interested volunteers should contact us at email@learninglife.info. Please include your resume, and a brief email explanation as to how you learned to speak Arabic fluently.
Thank you for your interest!
Watch: Third Citizen Diplomacy Initiative Video!
Learning Life’s third video about our Citizen Diplomacy Initiative is now out! This video is 3 minutes long, and features our founder, Paul Lachelier, explaining CDI’s project-based learning and photovoice project.
This video was put together by Andrew Jorgensen, a talented senior in film and video studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Andrew interned with Learning Life this spring semester, and this video is one of four he produced. All our videos are on our Youtube channel. Click here to see the videos.
Learning Life’s Citizen Diplomacy Initiative engages lower-income American families in live internet dialogues and project collaborations with lower-income families in other nations to nurture more caring and capable global citizens. Learn more here.
Watch: Second Citizen Diplomacy Initiative Video!
Learning Life’s second video about our Citizen Diplomacy Initiative is now out! This video is 4 minutes and 41 seconds long, and features our founder, Paul Lachelier, explaining Learning Life and the Citizen Diplomacy Initiative.
This video was put together by Andrew Jorgensen, a talented senior in film and video studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Andrew interned with Learning Life this spring semester, and this video is one of four he produced. Here is the first video Andrew produced. Stay tuned for the third and fourth videos!
Learning Life’s Citizen Diplomacy Initiative engages lower-income American families in live internet dialogues and project collaborations with families in other nations to nurture informed, skilled, connected and caring global citizens. Learn more here.
Get Notice of DC Live International Virtual Exchange Meetings
Are you using or interested in using live international virtual exchange (LIVE) to advance education, development, or civil society engagement? Learning Life, an educational nonprofit based in DC, is working to establish periodic meetings of live, international, virtual exchange practitioners and other interested parties in the Washington DC metro area. Details about the planned meetings follow below.
If you would like to be notified of these meetings, contact Paul Lachelier at paul@learninglife.info with your name and email address.
Name: DC LIVE Dialogues, or DC LIVE
Purpose: To facilitate communication, sharing and collaboration between LIVE practitioners, researchers, teachers, participants, funders, journalists, and others working in international education, development or civil society arenas in metro Washington DC.
Proposed Structure: (1) networking for first 15-20 minutes to allow everyone to arrive, (2) 2-3 minute updates (news, what’s going well, challenges, resources, collaboration opportunities) from a representative of each participating organization, (3) open discussion, (4) announcements.
Day & Time: First meeting will be on Thursday, July 20, 4:30-6pm. Contact Paul Lachelier at paul@learninglife.info for location details.
CDI engages lower-income American families in Washington D.C. in live internet dialogues and project collaborations with lower-income families in other nations to nurture more caring and capable global citizens. We are currently completing a photovoice project which is engaging nine families in DC, Dakar (Senegal) and Jerash (Jordan) in photo-taking in answer to the question “what is the past, present and future of your community?”