Located on the second floor of the Olin Language Center, the Language LAB provides extensive and bright study space and learning resources for students. Equipped with a full computer lab, foreign language texts to borrow, networked-printer, and games from around the world, we are open 7 days a week to provide support to Bard language students.
LAB - Center for Language, Attention, Belonging
The Language LAB has become a student-led research space where, through language, researchers approach ideas of human communication across linguistic and cultural boundaries, with meaningful questions and the desire to expand upon them—often alongside faculty. Student researchers are multilingual, motivated, and passionate about how these ideas of communication are challenged in the age of AI. They are encouraged to make a difference on campus and are willing to engage with technology, not as a means of cognitive surrender, but rather a catalyst or call to action.
LAB - Center for Language, Attention, Belonging
The Language LAB has become a student-led research space where, through language, researchers approach ideas of human communication across linguistic and cultural boundaries, with meaningful questions and the desire to expand upon them—often alongside faculty. Student researchers are multilingual, motivated, and passionate about how these ideas of communication are challenged in the age of AI. They are encouraged to make a difference on campus and are willing to engage with technology, not as a means of cognitive surrender, but rather a catalyst or call to action.
In the Language Lab
Our Staff - Fall 2026
Our staff are available during office hours to help you.
Learn more about our staff in their bios below.
Do not hesitate to write or talk to them any time.
“We are all storytellers. We live in a network of stories.
There isn't a stronger connection between people that storytelling.”
—Jimmy Neil Smith
Student Projects - Spring 2026
Japanese, Korean, and the Microcosms of Formality - Zoe Gibson and Yashii Velsey
Wikidata as a Tool to Improve Accessibility in Low-Resource Languages: Dari Representation - Mehria Reshta
Conceptualizing Indigeneity: Using Linguistic Research and AI to Imagine the Lakota Language - Hadi Aftab
When AI Speaks for Us: Cognitive Surrender and Language Production - Nia Beradze and Nia Jorbeandze
Accessibility
We are dedicated to making language learning available to all students regardless of learning needs, disability, or preferences. All office interns work to gather multimedia resources from around the world for language students. If you need any assistance accessing material we have collected, or need help finding material available in a different way, please stop by the office and we’ll be happy to work with you to fit your needs.