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The words are "Finding Joy Signum University Annual Fund 2024-2025"" style="object-fit:contain;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/11/Untitled-3ai-Rectangle-300x169.png 300w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/11/Untitled-3ai-Rectangle-1024x576.png 1024w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/11/Untitled-3ai-Rectangle-768x432.png 768w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/11/Untitled-3ai-Rectangle-1536x864.png 1536w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/11/Untitled-3ai-Rectangle-2048x1152.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:70%"> <div class="wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-layout-6 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow"><h3 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;" class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://signumuniversity.org/news/find-joy-learn-the-things-that-you-love/" target="_self" >Find Joy: Learn The Things That You Love</a></h3> <div style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;" class="wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt">At Signum University there are myriad ways to learn what you love — Welcome to the 2024 Annual Fund Drive full of new programs, announcements, and opportunities. To continue provide our content and pay our staff, our 2024 Annual Fund Drive aims for $200,000 this year — will you be part of our university by… </p></div> <div class="wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-layout-5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><div class="wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size"><time datetime="2024-12-10T14:28:35-05:00">December 10, 2024</time></div> <a style="text-decoration:underline;" class="has-text-color has-foregroundmuted-color wp-block-read-more has-medium-font-size" href="https://signumuniversity.org/news/find-joy-learn-the-things-that-you-love/" target="_self">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text">: Find Joy: Learn The Things That You Love</span></a></div> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-signumsecondarymuted-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-signumsecondarymuted-background-color has-background is-style-wide" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" /> </li><li class="wp-block-post post-182917 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-announcement"> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:30%"><figure class="alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image"><img width="300" height="202" src="https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/11/AA-Gift-Cert-Website--300x202.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Words: Gift the Joy of Learning; Anytime Audit Gift Certificate $75. Background, a festively wrapped package with pine cones and gold ribbons." style="object-fit:contain;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/11/AA-Gift-Cert-Website--300x202.png 300w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/11/AA-Gift-Cert-Website--1024x691.png 1024w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/11/AA-Gift-Cert-Website--768x518.png 768w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/11/AA-Gift-Cert-Website-.png 1334w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:70%"> <div class="wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-layout-8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow"><h3 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;" class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://signumuniversity.org/news/anytime-audit-gift-certificate-holiday-promotion/" target="_self" >Anytime Audit Gift Certificate Holiday Promotion!</a></h3> <div style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;" class="wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt">Anytime Audits are a bundle of recorded lectures, handouts, and a discussion group from our traditional graduate level courses here at Signum University — just for fun, no credit, for the simple Joy of Learning! With a Gift Certificate, your giftee can choose any one of our Anytime Audit courses. That’s right, from now until… </p></div> <div class="wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-layout-7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><div class="wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size"><time datetime="2024-11-18T16:41:38-05:00">November 18, 2024</time></div> <a style="text-decoration:underline;" class="has-text-color has-foregroundmuted-color wp-block-read-more has-medium-font-size" href="https://signumuniversity.org/news/anytime-audit-gift-certificate-holiday-promotion/" target="_self">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text">: Anytime Audit Gift Certificate Holiday Promotion!</span></a></div> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-signumsecondarymuted-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-signumsecondarymuted-background-color has-background is-style-wide" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" /> </li><li class="wp-block-post post-182887 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-announcement"> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:30%"><figure class="alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image"><img width="300" height="296" src="https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/01/mythmoot-dragons-both-multi-color-600dpi-300x296.png" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="A blue European-looking dragon and a red-orange Chinese looking dragon have twined their tails in flight." style="object-fit:contain;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/01/mythmoot-dragons-both-multi-color-600dpi-300x296.png 300w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/01/mythmoot-dragons-both-multi-color-600dpi-768x759.png 768w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/01/mythmoot-dragons-both-multi-color-600dpi-1024x1012.png 1024w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/01/mythmoot-dragons-both-multi-color-600dpi-50x50.png 50w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/01/mythmoot-dragons-both-multi-color-600dpi-80x80.png 80w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/01/mythmoot-dragons-both-multi-color-600dpi-100x100.png 100w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/01/mythmoot-dragons-both-multi-color-600dpi-255x252.png 255w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:70%"> <div class="wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-layout-10 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow"><h3 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;" class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://signumuniversity.org/news/four-important-questions/" target="_self" >Four Important Questions</a></h3> <div style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;" class="wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt">What would it be like to study languages at Signum? If only we could get a glimpse into the minds of the Germanic Philology Department luminaries! With this in mind, I asked the Germanic Philology professors four very important questions: What’s your coolest story about being a polyglot? 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Quaale “The fact is, creativity itself is a messy business.” Have you ever been enchanted by the idea of a story, a really long story, and decided that you would like to write one yourself? Did you look at your stockpile of notions and say, “But how? 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Here's a sample word: niedersächsischen. No one would do that but Germans and their ancestors. I simply searched our media library on the word "German" and it came up along with some recognizable Germanic Philology textbooks and Wheelock's Latin, so there you go." style="object-fit:contain;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/german-18368_640-300x225.jpg 300w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/german-18368_640-255x191.jpg 255w, https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/german-18368_640.jpg 640w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:70%"> <div class="wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-layout-14 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow"><h3 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;" class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://signumuniversity.org/news/what-do-you-get-when-you-fall-in-love/" target="_self" >What do you get when you fall in love?</a></h3> <div style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;" class="wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt">I asked some language professors and preceptors, “How did you first fall in love with language learning?”  And not one of them objected to the phrasing “fall in love.”  Each of our language faculty have a full-on neural-net entanglement with languages that are beautiful relationships indeed. Dr. Paul Peterson reports that he first fell in… </p></div> <div class="wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-layout-13 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><div class="wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size"><time datetime="2024-07-26T09:27:13-04:00">July 26, 2024</time></div> <a style="text-decoration:underline;" class="has-text-color has-foregroundmuted-color wp-block-read-more has-medium-font-size" href="https://signumuniversity.org/news/what-do-you-get-when-you-fall-in-love/" target="_self">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text">: What do you get when you fall in love?</span></a></div> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-signumsecondarymuted-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-signumsecondarymuted-background-color has-background is-style-wide" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" /> </li></ul> <nav 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