Foreign Language
You live a new life for every language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.
– Czech Proverb
Open doors to new ideas, new experiences, and new opportunities: learn a language.
There are many life long advantages in being bilingual. Learning a foreign language will open a door to new ideas, new experiences, and new opportunities both in the workplace and in social life; and it will prepare students for success in the new global economy.
The Foreign Language Department offers courses in Chinese, Japanese, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Its dedicated faculty strives to help students acquire proficiency in foreign languages and enhance their understanding of other cultures and peoples.
What You’ll Study
- American Sign Language
- Chinese
- Chinese-Mandarin
- French
- Japanese
- Spanish
- Spanish for Spanish Speakers
Catalog
Visit our catalog for more information about the degrees and certificates, courses, and program learning outcomes for students majoring in a foreign language.
Careers & Salary
Careers
- Foreign Language and Literature Teacher
- Interpreter
- Translator
- Secondary School Teacher
Salary
- Low: $28k
- Average: $71k
- High: $190k
Program Mapper
Faculty
- Samanta de Frutos García
- Evelyn Gámez
- Karen Le Cornet
- Mihoko Terada Luther
Adjunct Faculty
- Hassan Ahmed
- Liya Ao
- Valeria Barragán
- Onisha Blagdon
- Chiang Horng Harn
- Natsuyo Higuchi
- Ana Maradiaga
- Estela Marquez-Alarcon
- Adrienne Merlo
- Brianna Moss
- Arturo Navarro
- Mutsumi Nobuhara
- Emi Okubo
- Ivon Saldana
- Juti Seshie
- Santiago Tamariz
- Wataru Watanabe
- Tanya Zeigler
- Dan Zhang
Foreign Language Department
Location: Humanities, Room 208
T: (714) 484-7169
Department Chair: Karen Le Cornet, klecornet@cypresscollege.edu and Mihoko Terada Luther, mluther@cypresscollege.edu