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FLAS: Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions Document (PDF)
Consult this document for answers to many FLAS-related questions.

Q: I am applying for a FLAS summer award. How can I find an appropriate language program?

A: Summer awards must be used for intensive language training: 140-180 contact hours over a period of 6 weeks. The following is a list of previously approved summer language programs and other resources to begin your search:

Arabic

• Advanced Arabic at the American University in Cairo, Egypt
• American Association of Teachers of Arabic (Summer Program Listings)
• Arabic at the QASID Institute for Classical Arabic in Amman, Jordan
• Beginning Arabic at Middlebury College
• Beginning Arabic in summer session language courses at UNC-Chapel Hill
• Summer Intensive Arabic Program at the Al-Diwan Center in Cairo, Egypt

Aymara

• The University of Chicago

Creole (Hatian)

• Florida Consortium for Latin American Studies' Haitian Summer Institute

French

• Cours de Civilisation Francaise de la Sorbonne
• Institut Catholique de Paris
• Universite Catholique de l'Ouest

Gallurese

• Universita' Degli Studi di Cagliari

German

• Goethe-Institut Gottingen
• Middlebury College
• GLS Berlin

Greek (Modern)

• The Athens Center

Guarani

• Asunción, Paraguay through the Instituto de Lingüistica Guaraní del Paraguay (IDELGUAP) of the Universidad Evangélica, Facultad de Lenguas Vivas

Indonesian

• Indonesian at the Universitas Sam Ratulangi at Manado (UNSRAT)

Irish-Gaelic

• Oideas Gael
• Harvard Summer School

Italian

• Babilonia Language School
• Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri

Kiswahili

• Intermediate Kiswahili at the Yale University Program in Kenya

Maya (Kaqchikel)

• Antigua (Guatemala) through Tulane University
• Antigua (Guatemala) through The Ohio State University

Maya (Yucatec)

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan

Maya (Various)

• Centro Maya de Idiomas

Mixtec

• Oaxaca, Mexico through San Diego State University

Nahuatl

• San Agustmn Oapan, Guerrero, Mexico through Yale University
• Zacatecas Institute for Teaching and Research in Ethnology

Portuguese

• Associagco Cultural Brasil Estados Unidos (ACBEU), Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), through the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Harvard University
• Instituto Brasil Estados Unidos in Rio de Janeiro through the University of Florida
• The Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Rio de Janeiro through Harvard University
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais through the University of Texas at Austin
• Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza (Brazil) through the University of Arizona - (520) 626-7171
• University of Texas at Austin - (512) 471-4936
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Vitsria-Vila Velha in Espmrito Santo (Brazil) through the University of Kansas

Quechua

• Escuela Andina de Postgrado, Cusco (Peru) through The University of Michigan

Quechua (Bolivian)

• Cochabamba (Bolivia) through Cornell University
• Cochabamba (Bolivia) through Florida International University's Andean Studies

Quechua (Ecuadorian)

• Rmo Napo (Ecuador) through Arizona State University's Andes and Amazon Field School

Scots-Gaelic

• Sabhal Mor Ostaig

Shuar

• Rmo Napo (Ecuador) through Arizona State University's Andes and Amazon Field School

Swedish

• Uppsala International Summer Session

Turkish

• Ohio State University Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Vietnamese

• Advanced Vietnamese at the Vietnam National University for Social Sciences and Humanities

Waorani

• Rmo Napo (Ecuador) through Arizona State University's Andes and Amazon Field School

More Latin American Language Resources

• CLASP Language Teaching Committee Report, Summer 2007 Listings (DOC)

More South Asia Language Resources

• NC Center for South Asia Studies: "Languages & FLAS"
• South Asian Summer Language Institute (SASLI)

More Middle East Language Resources

• Middle East Studies Association (Summer Program Listings)

More General Language Resources

• University of Minnesota CARLA Searchable Database of Less Commonly Taught Languages

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