Ever since we awkwardly (and unwittingly) sat down at the German table in the Rocky dining hall back in October (after a confusing ten minutes we excused ourself with our only German phrase, guten tag), we’ve had a somewhat strange relationship with the residential dining hall language tables. We understand–really nice for native speakers who miss their mother tongue, useful for aspiring linguists, another way for uber-competitive Princeton students to show off–but the little Lou Dobbs in us sometimes wants to shout out “English! We eat our food in English in America!”

But everything changed when we saw this week’s language line-up for Thursday night:

Rocky Language and Discussion Tables:

Thursday:

Romanian - 6pm

Spoken Latin – 615 (pdr)

Swedish – 6pm

Mime – 6pm

YES!!!!! Who’s pumped for dinner?! Let’s break down what makes this awesome: