The Deck is usable art for language & culture learning. We start from the real world of everyday life, reflecting the people, places, and things of our community as the starting place for language learning. Language is local.In all of our work building bridges between languages and cultures, we’ve realized that learning a language is an ongoing, nonlinear, dynamic process. It’s not a matter of doing it right, but doing it well. This is the difference between literacy and fluency. Literacy is