Summer Language Learning Opportunities
Keep honing your language skills beyond the summer months. Explore diverse options, including online and in-person programs, both locally and abroad. With a wide range of opportunities available, the journey to language fluency continues year-round.
The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program partners with universities and nonprofits around the globe to provide cohorts of U.S. students an opportunity to study the language and culture in a country/location where the target language is commonly spoken.
8-10 week programs with a minimum of 15 hours per week of formal learning with extracurricular activities designed to supplement the formal curriculum, including regular one-on-one meetings with native speaker language partners for conversational practice, as well as cultural activities and excursions designed to expand students’ understanding of the history, politics, culture and daily life of their host country.
Outcomes
Requirements
No prior knowledge
Two years of study required
CLS Spark is a virtual initiative for U.S. undergraduate students to learn languages essential to America’s global engagement. Designed to leverage best practices in online language learning developed by the CLS Program during the pandemic, CLS Spark allows American students to study critical languages virtually when they may not have access to study them on their campuses. Participants will spend the summer learning Arabic, Chinese, or Russian through online classes and activities facilitated by native speakers at a host institution abroad.
Requirements and outcomes
The Indiana University Language Workshop is one of the most affordable programs of its kind in the country and undergraduate and graduate funding is also available.
Arizona State University’s Critical Languages Institute supports intensive language programs in 14 languages.