Last April, the University of Southern California announced plans to eliminate its German department, stating that it wanted to shift resources away from European languages to Asian languages like ...

In an era of dwindling budgets, universities have identified language programs as an area for possible cuts. Languages with few students are being framed as luxuries that cannot be afforded during a ...

At Connecticut College, students explore intercultural communication skills as an integral part of liberal learning. All students are expected to study another language for at least two semesters; ...

The Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. citizens to add an important international and linguistic component to their educations by studying abroad. The award focuses on ...

University students of yesteryear read the classics. Aristotle, Euclid, Homer and Plato were part of the regular course of study. And students read these challenging texts in their original languages ...

Want to change the world? Another language can help you do that by engaging with today’s problems and developing tomorrow’s solutions. Want to have more job prospects, earn a higher salary, and get ...

A student who places out of the language requirement will never have to engage with language study at Harvard, devaluing what ...

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In just eight weeks, University of Delaware alumna Kiara Cronin went from not speaking any Swahili at all to testing at an intermediate proficiency level — a feat anyone who’s ever attempted to learn ...

For students working toward an A.B. degree at Princeton, the foreign language requirement is a core part of their undergraduate education. For those starting at the 101 level, the requirement ...

How do languages balance the richness of their structures with the need for efficient communication? To investigate, researchers at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, ...