HUDSON, Wis. – Concordia College of Moorhead hosted a Norwegian “mini-village” in the Hudson Middle School cafeteria Saturday.
The free event was held to promote the Concordia Language Villages program, which offers language immersion camps in 15 languages at its permanent site near Bemidji, Minn., and at other lakeside camps and resorts around Minnesota.
The Turtle River site near Bemidji is home to seven authentically built, year-round village facilities (Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian and Spanish).
“We are builders of globally minded communities and guides to world fluency. Our cultural immersion programs in the North Woods of Minnesota engage our participants in learnful play to develop language proficiency,” says the program’s website,
www.concordialanguagevillages.org
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The event at Hudson also featured area residents of Norwegian heritage who had products to sell or skills and information to share.
Guests had the opportunity to learn some Norwegian words through games and activities, to experience Nordic culture and to taste authentic Norwegian food.
