At one point or another, most Middlebury students will walk up the stairs in Proctor Dining Hall and sit down for lunch in the Redfield Dining Room. There, they’ll take off their coats and backpacks, sit down at one of the round tables, and immerse themselves in an experiential part of the college’s robust foreign language learning curriculum. For five days a week, Language Tables are open and bustling amid the midday lunch rush, with eight core languages and the occasional Swahili or ASL table running each week.