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Spanish Classes
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September 4 -
September 30, 2008 (twice/wk, 8 classes total) |
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Date/Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00-2:45 PM |
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Location: Music Makers
Conservatory, Helena |
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| For more information
or to register for a class, please contact: |
| Donna Uken - (406)
933-5368 |
| PO Box 377, Jefferson
City, MT 59638 |
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dduken@hotmail.com |
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| Desirée Tietje (406)
461-0761 |
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| About your teacher -
Donna Uken: |
Donna Uken,
a native of Montana, spent all of her school years in Tucson, Arizona,
where she was exposed to many different cultures at an early age. An
intrigue with Latin American art, music, and language led her to seize
her first opportunity to enroll in Spanish classes, at the 7th grade
level. As part of the junior high experience, a weekend bus trip to
Hermosillo, Mexico, provided the impetus to try to communicate with
other students in their native language. What an incentive that was! Her
love of Spanish continued through high school. She realized, upon
entering college, that there was an underlying fascination with language
development itself. While minoring in Spanish, she majored in Speech
Pathology, focusing her interest on language acquisition and disruptions
or delays of language learning in children. Since then, her teaching
career has been devoted to assisting children in special education with
language-learning disabilities. She currently holds a Nevada teaching
credential. Never has her love of Spanish been forgotten, however.
Attending the University of Arizona summer school in Guadalajara,
Mexico, in 1968, then participating in her first mission trip to Bolivia
in 1969, solidified her desire to make the learning of Spanish a
lifelong passion. Since then, Spanish courses have periodically been
taken and opportunities to travel to Latin America have been cherished.
For two years during her children’s preschool/early elementary years,
she taught Spanish classes at a Montessori school in Reno. Later, while
an elementary school special ed teacher, she participated in that
school’s enrichment program, teaching Spanish classes to second graders.
In 2002, her church in Reno, Nevada, decided to organize a mission trip
to Bolivia! After 33 years, Donna was excitedly returning to Bolivia,
this time to assist in hearing testing and the dispensing of hearing
aids. Her motivation for mission has led her to participate in
subsequent trips to Bolivia, in 2003, 2007, and 2008. Now, with Music
Lingua, has arisen a new opportunity to combine her interest in language
acquisition, her passion for working with children, and her love of
Spanish!
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