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If you are a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ French Program alumni and not yet on our alumni email list, please contact worldlanguages@montclair.edu.<\/a> Or invite your professors to add you to their LinkedIn networks!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Oyin<\/p>\n

Oyin Otetubi<\/strong> is a former French student, Schmitt Scholar and Kermit Vogel Scholar. She recently interned for the State Department in France. Next up,\u00a0she’ll be enrolling at NYU to study Speech Language Pathology. Being a bilingual speech language pathologist is a terrific asset. Oyin may also take her new skills to Nigeria where, she says, there is a large need for these types of services.<\/p>\n

\"Jean<\/p>\n

My name is\u00a0Jean Rice<\/strong>. After completing the MAT-French program at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, I am delighted to say that I am now teaching French as an Adjunct Professor here at my alma mater. I fell in love with the French language as a young girl and have never stopped learning about French culture and civilization. I felt that my professors at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ State were experts in their fields who could not have been more enlightening and supportive to all of their students. The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is a world-class program and I now have students from diverse sections of the country–from New York to California–an indication of the enthusiasm and interest in the study of French.<\/p>\n

\"Jeff<\/p>\n

My name is\u00a0Jeffrey Welfel\u00a0<\/strong>and I completed my bachelor\u2019s degree in French at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ in 2009. I spent one year studying abroad in Grenoble, France at Universit\u00e9 Stendhal\u2019s Centre Universitaire d’Etudes Fran\u00e7aises, where my many credits transferred back to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ State. I also had the fantastic opportunity of participating in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s interactive summer program in Nice, France by soaking in everything the C\u00f4te d’Azur has to offer. After graduation, I taught French I, II, and III for two years in Fair Lawn. Itching to feed my travel bug and putting my language background to work, I taught varying levels of French in China as an instructor for four years at Shanghai University in the School of Foreign Languages. I have since returned back to the area and am currently teaching French at Westwood Jr\/Sr Regional High School and look forward to creating an enriching classroom environment that comes to life for all my students. I continuously encourage my students to recognize the importance of learning a foreign language and become model global citizens. I look forward to continuing to provide inspiration for others learning French as a foreign language. Without the exposure of quality faculty at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, I would not be where I am today. “L’homme qui sait deux langues en vaut deux<\/em>” Merci.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ French Program alumni and not yet on our alumni email list, please contact worldlanguages@montclair.edu. Or invite your professors to add you to their LinkedIn networks! Oyin Otetubi is a former French student, Schmitt Scholar and Kermit Vogel Scholar. She recently interned for the State Department in France. Next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":710,"parent":70,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-394","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4861,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394\/revisions\/4861"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}