Anna Clune

I am a senior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a double major in Communications and Spanish and a minor in Portuguese. I am studying Communications to develop strong analytical abilities to understand all the aspects of communication through critical thinking and develop skills in public speaking, writing, research methods, and leadership. I have a strong passion for languages and different cultures. I am fortunate to have grown up in a bilingual Spanish household, and decided to pursue the Spanish major to further my fluency and knowledge of the Hispanic culture and language. I understand the importance of knowing multiple languages and decided to study Portuguese in college, which gave me the opportunity to spend part of my summer in Portugal furthering my language skills.

Spanish Instructor and nanny: Instruct a young girl in an immersion Spanish elementary school program. Help translate and immerse her in the Spanish language through her class work. Create engaging teaching methods for the 1st grade curriculum.

Substitue teacher: Watch over classes for absent teachers. Work as a teaching aid for children with learning disabilities when their personal teaching aids were absent.

University of Massachusetts Amherst: Graduating this May with a Bachelor of Arts in communications and Spanish and a minor in Portuguese.

University of Lisbon: Intensive Portuguese language course with special attention on the phonetics and prosody of the language.