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Housing & Residential Life

Language House

Mixed material building with a sign that reads Toni Morrison Hall

The Language House, Cornell's language immersion residence, provides a unique living-learning community that helps students become comfortably fluent in one of the languages offered for the academic year.  Languages for the 2024-2025 academic year include Spanish, French,  Mandarin, Korean and Russian. 

NOTE: The Language House is not a traditional Program House. 

Community Features 

  • Open to upper-level students 
  • 50+ residents 
  • Single and double rooms arranged in suites with shared bathrooms. Suites in Language House are gender-inclusive.
  • Lounges, study areas, shared kitchen spaces, a music practice room, and laundry facilities 
  • Bedrooms contain, for each occupant: an extra-long twin bed, a wardrobe and three-drawer bureau, a desk and desk chair, a desk lamp, a wastebasket, and a recycling bin
  • Wireless Internet access
  • Language House rooms in Toni Morrison Hall are temperature-controlled. 

Helpful Information and Important Links

Below are resources and guidelines to support your residential experience at Cornell University. Please review the tabs below and bookmark these pages to apply for housing, browse through meal plan options, find mail and package information, and explore the HILC community pages in CampusGroups.

The Language House Contact Information 

The Language House, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Questions? Contact us. 

Mail and Packages

Visit the Service Center website for student mail and package information.

Dining Options

How to Apply

 Log in to the Housing Portal.  Applications are available now through 11:59pm on February 25, 2024. Please log into the housing portal to apply.  Students will be able to access the Language House application with a link on their 2024-2025 Academic Year application, as follows:

  • Rising sophomores: link on the new Program House page after Blocking page of the General Room Selection application.
  • Rising juniors and seniors with a housing assignment: on the new Room Change page after the License page.
  • Rising juniors and seniors without a housing assignment: on the Welcome and Building Preferences pages of the Wait List application.

The deadline to apply is Sunday February 25, 2024 at 11:59pm.