Category: Language Training

Language training programs, both domestic and abroad.

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Lang. Training: CLS Spark – New Critical Language Scholarship Opportunity

Deadline: May 26, 2022

We are pleased to share information with you about CLS Spark — a pilot initiative providing funded virtual opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to learn languages essential to America’s engagement with the world. Designed to leverage best practices in online language learning developed by the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Program (CLS) during the pandemic, CLS Spark provides American students the access and opportunity to start their language learning journeys even when these critical languages may not be offered on their campuses or when they may have responsibilities that limit their ability to go overseas. Participants will spend an academic year learning either Arabic, Chinese or Russian through online classes and activities facilitated by native speakers at a host institution abroad. A program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program and CLS Spark are part of a U.S. government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity.

The CLS Spark program will be offered in academic year 2022-2023 with approximately 18 hours of virtual language instruction offered per month, as well as monthly cultural activities.  

You can learn more and apply at: https://clscholarship.org/apply

Applications are due Thursday, May 26, 2022 by 8:00pm EST.

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Lang. Training: Online Summer Russian Course (Tufts University)

Dates: May 25 – July 1, 2022

An intensive elementary Russian language course will be offered by the Russian
program at Tufts University this June.  The link to the course information is
here:
https://universitycollege.tufts.edu/courses/browse/intensive-elementary-russian#section-29257

It is open to high school students, college students, and the community. The
course is virtual and runs in both synchronous and asynchronous formats. With
any questions, please write to Marina.Aptekman@tufts.edu.

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SRAS Study Abroad Info Sessions

Event Dates: April 7 and April 12, 2022

Please join SRAS info sessions to discuss your future study abroad program! We will go over funding and scholarship opportunities as well. 

SRAS is gearing up for summer programs in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Batumi, Georgia as well as online from Warsaw, Poland. We are also accepting applications for fall programs in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, as well as Chisinau, Moldova. Both programs will include intensive Russian-language study as well local cultural and travel programs that will introduce students to the unique peoples, cultures, and identities of these locations. 

We will also have our Security and Society in the Information Age program in Warsaw, Poland this fall, a particularly pertinent program looking at European security and global security issues. 

With so many students now in our Bishkek location, we’ve taken the opportunity to update and expand our Vegan and Vegetarian Guide to Bishkek, our guide to Fitness, Training, Gyms, and Jogging in Bishkek, and several other resources, now all linked from our giant SRAS Guide to Living in Bishkek.

Elsewhere on our Family of Sites, we have new articles on the Kyrgyz State Opera and Ballet Theater, a profile of Turkmen poet Magtymguly Pyragy, and a book review of This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia.

Lastly, we are heartened to report that all our friends and colleagues at Novamova, our partner school in Ukraine, are still safe. If you would like to donate to help them, please click here. 

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Lang. Training: Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (UW Madison)

Deadline: April 1, 2022

The Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) is an eight-week summer intensive language program for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals. Language courses are supplemented by a rich program of cultural events, excursions, and a weekly academic lecture series.

Course offerings each summer are dependent on student interest and enrollment. Typical course offerings include Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek. Languages are generally offered at the beginning and intermediate level, although advanced level courses may be offered with sufficient student interest. Additional languages, such as Kyrgyz or Azerbaijani, may also be offered with sufficient interest.

CESSI was founded in 2011 by a consortium of international and area studies centers at major U.S. universities. Since its creation, CESSI has been hosted by the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

CESSI is part of the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI), which offers training in more Less Commonly Taught Languages than any other university in the U.S. For more information, visit the WISLI website. Sign up to receive information from WISLI here.

Kazakh language courses through CESSI also qualify towards fulfilling the UW Russian Flagship Kazakh language requirement.

For more information, click here.

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Job Posting: Concordia Language Villages, Lesnoe Ozero

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Lesnoe Ozero now has opportunities for employment or volunteer work in an immersion environment for ALL language levels. Please feel free to forward this email, and if there are any questions, please feel free to pass along my email: ravitch@cord.edu .
Please note that Concordia Language Villages is an isolated congregate living environment and thus requires a variety of Covid mitigation strategies, including vaccines and testing for all, as well as masking in certain settings.

NEW THIS YEAR! Option 1: Volunteer, July 12-July 30 or July 12-August 14 – Novice high+ proficiency preferredIn this pilot program, volunteers will receive a week of orientation, including training in language teaching, camp counseling, and language training specific to their area of volunteer responsibility (e.g. leading gardening activities, working in our camp cafe, etc.) They will then spend part of the day leading activities in their area of volunteer responsibility and the rest of the day assisting regular staff in language classes, and being immersed in Russian language. Room, board, and transportation from the Minneapolis airport to the program in Bemidji, MN are included, but volunteers are responsible for their own travel to the Minneapolis airport. Volunteers must be at least 18yo and have completed a year of college or the equivalent.NOTE: We cannot provide support for J-1 visas for volunteersApplication link for Volunteers

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Study Abroad: AUCA-Bard College Study Abroad Program (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

Deadline: April 1, 2022

Bard Abroad is excited to announce the introduction of a Russian Language Track through the AUCA-Bard Study Abroad Program in Kyrgyzstan. This track is open to students with at least two years of college-level Russian.

Although more than 30 years have passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Bishkek remains largely a Russian-speaking city, with Russian used as the common language between the many groups of people that call Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia home. Students will have the opportunity to use Russian in and out of the classroom, in home-stays, with student peers, and in daily life. With a rich history and culture of its own, a shared-Soviet experience and common customs and cultural traditions which transcend borders, Kyrgyzstan is a fascinating place to study Russian (outside of the European context) and experience post-Soviet society.

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Lang. Training: Intensive Russian/Russian Cinema Courses (Stony Brook University)

Deadline: Open

1) Stony Brook University will offer the following online summer courses: Contemporary Russian Cinema (in English), 6 weeks. Intensive Elementary Russian I, II (2 semesters), 8 weeks. Both courses start on May 24. You can write me for more information and/or check StonyBrook.edu/summer

2) Stony Brook is offering an ACE (Accelerated College Education) program in Russian for high school students across the US. The possible courses include Elementary Russian and Russian for Heritage Speakers. This program allows students from high schools that offer Russian to receive university credit for their high school courses.

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Lang. Training: Center for Language Studies Summer Program (Beloit College)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The 39-year-strong Center for Language Studies language program at Beloit College will offer in Summer 2022 Chinese, Japanese and RUSSIAN languages, first through fourth year college level!

We remain committed to a world-class summer language immersion experience for students, while remaining safe and reliable. Our superb instructional team is already planning an engaging, interactive and exciting program in-person. 

Dates in 2022: 

June 18th through August 5th

Session 1: June 18th – July 12th

Session 2: July 12th – August 5th

 Students earn 8 US undergraduate credits for the full 7-week

program!

For details: www.beloit.edu/cls, or write to Olga Ogurtsova at ogurtsov@beloit.edu 

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Lang. Training: Russian Summer Language Intensive in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Bard College)

Deadline: March 4, 2022

Bard Abroad is excited to announce a new Russian Summer Language Intensive to be held at the American University of Central Asia, Bard’s longstanding partner in Central Asia. The program combines intensive Russian study with an academic course, taught in English, to contextualize Central Asia’s historical, cultural, and contemporary ties to Russia and the former Soviet Union.

For more information, click here.

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