International Languages

Explore different cultures and you’ll better understand your own.

How Do You Say... Welcome!

Bienvenue! Bienvenido! Whether you want to enroll in language courses for personal growth, as an elective, or you've decided to pursue a foreign language as a major, Coastline courses are suited to meet your needs.

You may opt for our Distance Learning and Telecourse instruction or the traditional classroom format. Students interested in observing one of our classes can arrange a classroom visit to witness interactive student learning and innovative teaching methods. Coastline also offers Study Abroad opportunities!

Available Programs

International Language Courses at Coastline

• Arabic
  Faculty
  

  • Amer El-Ahraf aelahraf@coastline.edu
• Chinese
  Current Courses
  Elementary Chinese 1: Chinese C180
  The course will develop the fundamental ability to both comprehend and converse in daily spoken Chinese. Early reading and writing skills, as well as Chinese customs and culture are introduced. This class is an online course - no travel to campus is required.
  
  Elementary Chinese 2: Chinese C185
  Continuation of Chinese C180. Designed to develop the student's fundamental ability to both comprehend and converse in daily spoken Chinese. Sentence patterns, vocabulary and pronunciation are emphasized. Reading and writing skills are continuously introduced as well as appreciation and understanding of Chinese customs and cultures in China, Taiwan and elsewhere. This class is an online course - no travel to campus is required.
  
  Online Resources
  Practice more Pinyin
  More tools for learning Chinese
  Tools for learning Mandarin
  Chinese Culture
  Chinese Music
  How to have a Chinese name
  
  Dictionaries
  http://zhongwen.com/zi.htm
  http://chineselanguage.org/
  
  Faculty
  

  • Jingfang Satow jsatow@cccd.edu

  Jingfang Satow has been a Chinese instructor at Coastline College since 2005 and has taught all levels of Chinese for over eight years. She initiated the study abroad program and took students to China in 2002, 2005, and again in 2009 through Coastline. Jingfang also developed and taught the first online Chinese class at Coastline. She has always been interested in working with projects which promote Chinese language and culture. Since 2006 she has been serving as a development team member for OLLI (Open Language Learning Initiative), a $2.8 million Sino-American software based E-Language project sponsored by the U.S. Department and the Chinese Ministry of Education, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Jingfang is native Chinese and has a M.A. in Linguistics.
• French
  Faculty
  

  • David Fuchs: dfuchs@coastline.edu
• Japanese

  Faculty

  • Hiromi Takahashi htakahashi1@coastline.edu
• Spanish
  Faculty
  

  • Julie Alweheiby jalweheiby@coastline.edu
  • Sandra Basabe sbasabe@coastline.edu
  • Donna Marques dmarques1@coastline.edu *Dept. Chair
  • Citlalli Perez-Gutierrez cperezgutierrez@coastline.edu
  • Petra Petry ppetry@coastline.edu
• Vietnamese
  Coastline College's Le-Jao Center has offered a unique program of the Vietnamese language, the first of its kind in California and in the United States since 1986. Classes at different levels for beginners, business people, and advanced students who desire a major in Vietnamese studies are available daytime and evenings as well.
  
  Students who take courses in the Vietnamese language program can fulfill a lower General Education requirement in the section of Humanities.
  
  For more information concerning the Vietnamese program, please contact the following:
  David Nguyen dnguyen@coastline.edu
  Dung Tran dtran@coastline.edu
  Dr. Son Kim Vo svonovember30@yahoo.com
  
  Faculty
  

  • David Nguyen dnguyen@coastline.edu