jnmandal Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6104 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Swahili
| Message 1 of 3 31 May 2010 at 7:35pm | IP Logged |
US Government program to encourage "critical language" learning:
http://www.clscholarship.org/
Its limited to college students but for those of us still at school, it seems like a
great program. I was just wondering if anyone had any personal knowledge or experience
with the program or knew anything about its admissions.
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snomadic Newbie United States Joined 5304 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: Swedish
| Message 2 of 3 02 June 2010 at 10:13pm | IP Logged |
I have had a few friends go through the program (Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, respectively)
and they all had very positive things to say. Contrary to what you might expect, there
isn't a great deal of flag-waving or pressure to join the State Department or other parts
of the government. The programs vary significantly in style, but all seem pretty
awesome.
One of them wrote a blog on her experience: http://mysummerinturkey.blogspot.com/
Edited by snomadic on 02 June 2010 at 10:15pm
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jnmandal Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6104 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Swahili
| Message 3 of 3 08 June 2010 at 6:26pm | IP Logged |
Thanks snomadic
The blog gave me some good insight into the program. I am definitely putting an
application in for the 2011 program, but I'm still curious about their admissions
process.
Did any of your friends do the beginner programs? I don't have any significant background
in the languages they offer, but I want to try for the Urdu program.
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