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The 2018 English-Speaking Union Annual Conference

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Setting English in Action for a New Century
New Orleans, LA
November 17-19, 2018
Wyndham Garden Baronne Plaza New Orleans
201 Baronne St, New Orleans, LA

The 2018 English-Speaking Union Annual Conference, hosted by the ESU New Orleans Branch, drew members from all over the country to the Wyndham Garden Baronne Plaza Hotel for an enjoyable and productive weekend November 17-19, 2018.  The conference, under the theme "Setting English in Action for a New Century" focused on plans for the upcoming centennial of the organization in 2020 and continued to refine the strategies to take the ESU into its second century of excellence promoting the English language as a catalyst for global understanding and good will. 

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Randy Cohen's Person, Place, Thing Podcast with Peter Gilliver, TLab Lecturer at Oxford

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The new podcast hosted at The English-Speaking Union is now available.

TLab presented Peter Gilliver, the legendary Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer — and instructor in the TLab Programs — at a live presentation of Randy Cohen's Person, Place and Thing at The English-Speaking Union in New York. Gilliver shared behind-the-scenes insights at the Oxford English Dictionary. "It's the short words that are the hardest," he told the ESU audience. Love? Death? No. Shorter. Run and go. "I worked on the verb to run and it took me nine months, and one of my colleagues spent over a year on the verb to go." Host Randy Cohen is best known as the original ethicist columnist The New York Times.

Download the podcast at the iTunes store or Listen here.

Join us for another TLab lecture by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust expert Darren Freebury-Jones on Monday, January 28 in NYC. Reserve now.

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ESU Immigrant Support Embarks on New Season

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The dawn of the new year, 2019, saw the resumption of two of the English-Speaking Union's most icon programs: the English in Action (EiA) and the Andrew Romay New Immigrant Center (ARNIC). To mark the occasion, the ESU held a special kickoff lunch on January 9 at the English-Speaking Union house to welcome new and returning program members and program instructor. ESU Executive Director Karen Karpowich spoke briefly applauding all the program participants for their initiative, counseling them not to fear making mistakes as they master the English language. Program manager Rona Weitz made brief remarks, introducing program and ESU staff.

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New Year's Message from The Chairman

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On behalf of the Board of Directors of the English Speaking Union of the United States it is my pleasure to extend hearty New Year's and holiday greetings to all of our members, and to all those who support the mission and the objectives of the ESU. 

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Happy Holidays

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