MSI Press Blog

Not much time available today. We are all sick here with something we are calling simply "the crud." It is definitely unpleasant -- and tenacious. But I can take a couple of minutes to answer a couple of questions that have come my way this week about the JDLS: Yes, it is on the shelves of the Library of Congress. Yes, the articles are available online (see information below). Currently, the latest issue is the only one where all articles are available, but we are working to make all articles in all issues downloadable at very lost cost. Yes, we are still reviewing submissions for Volume/Issue 9. Yes, it is possible for an institution to subscribe to the journal. Contact orders@msipress.com. (See information below.) --- We now have available for individual purchase each of the feature articles from issue 8 of the journal at a very accessible price and will make the feature articles available from other issues as time goes on. Check our  webstore  to see what we have at any gi

      Perhaps the most extraordinary and unique feature of the JDLS is the personal story at the start of each journal. In the latest journal, Dr. Cornelius Kubler of Smith College (and great fame in the Chinese-teaching field) delves into all the things he did and experienced that led him to near-native proficiency. Like many highly proficient speakers of less commonly taught languages, he had experience as a child with commonly taught languages. He grew up in a German-speaking family in Daytona Beach, Florida, and studied Spanish, French, and Latin in high school and Esperanto and Italian at the Y. Yes, he writes, "never in the world would I have imagined that I would end up majoring in Chinese and linguistics, test twice in Chinese at the S-4/R-4 level in the civil and foreign service of the U.S. State Department and use Chinese as my primary professional language throughout my two careers as a State Department official and college professor."  You can read the full articl