CA’s New World Languages Café Offers Free, Friendly Way to Learn New Languages, Increase Fluency

Whether it is in English, en français, en español, or in Arabic, Farsi, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and other languages, there can be a table with friendly faces and good conversation at Columbia Association’s (CA) new World Languages Café.

The World Languages Café provides monthly evenings of conversation, food and culture for people to speak a language they know or are learning, increase their fluency by speaking and listening, meet others who enjoy learning languages, pick up useful phrases to use when traveling — or even to recall a childhood language.

These gatherings are free and are appropriate for adults, as well as college and high school students. They will be held on the fourth Wednesday of the month — upcoming dates are March 27, April 24, May 22 and June 26 — from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Wegmans Café, located at 8855 McGaw Road in Columbia. People are invited to come upstairs and join the language table of their choice, whether they want to drop in or stay the entire time. On their way up, people can purchase a drink, snack or dinner to bring with them.

Language tables are hosted by native speakers who will facilitate conversation; these gatherings are not grammar or vocabulary classes.

Check ColumbiaAssociation.org/Multicultural each month for the languages that will be offered at the upcoming session. Languages for March 27 will be announced soon on the website. For more information, contact International@ColumbiaAssociation.org or call 410-715-3162.