Foreign Languages Capability Brochure

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Language Training Solutions

The Academic Programs division of the Graduate School offers a variety

of innovative language training solutions, from short-term immersion

to intensive and semi-intensive courses, in 30 languages and dialects. Inaddition to our popular evening and weekend open enrollment courses,

we offer customized solutions for organizations and agencies with specific

training needs.

Highly qualified language specialists work with organizations to identify

training needs, develop learning objectives, and design programs using

appropriate and innovative methodologies to maximize language

acquisition.

Translation and Interpretation

Services

With an extensive network of experienced and

academically trained instructors, the Graduate School

offers the highest quality translations, interpretations

and voiceovers by certified linguists. Our goal is to

provide translated documents that read as if written in

the target language, and clear and concise interpretation.

Whether you are looking for simultaneous

interpretation for a hearing, voiceovers for recorded

materials or legal document translation, the Graduate

Schools experienced project managers will assign the

most appropriate linguist with a background in yourfield to meet your needs.

Services Available

I Document translations

I Consecutive interpretation

I Simultaneous interpretation

I Voiceovers

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Examples of Customized Language Programs include:

I Intensive Arabic, designed for the U.S. Army, helped prepareparticipants for an overseas assignment by providing 200 hours oflanguage immersion over a six-week period.

I Russian for the Office of the Secretary of Defense provided weekly,small-group intensive training for officers and civilians in the Officeof International Security Policy/Eurasia.

I Small Group Chinese (Mandarin) and Arabic Classesfor the Officeof Naval Intelligence helped participants acquire the listening,speaking, writing and reading skills needed for their assignments.

I Spanish on the Hill, taught early mornings to accommodate fullpolitical calendars, has helped prepare more than one hundred

members of Congress and their staffers to communicate moreeffectively with their constituents.

I Spanish for Parking Enforcement Officers, provided to the D.C. Department of PublicWorks, taught critical terminology and phrases to assist officers in interacting with theSpanish-speaking community.

I Translation and Voiceoversfor the American Evolution exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Artprovided museum visitors and patrons highly professional recordings of exhibit informationin Spanish.

Critical Languages

Our innovative programs include training in critical languages and dialects in a variety of formats,from short-term immersion to longer-term, semi-intensive classroom training. Responding to increasingneed on the part of defense organizations, the school now offers customized iso-immersion programs incritical need languages including Arabic, Chinese, Pashto and Urdu.

Examples of Arabic dialects offered include:I IraqiI GulfI Levantine (spoken in Syria, Lebanon,

Palestine and Jordan)I Maghreb (spoken in Tunisia, Algeria,

Morocco and Western Libya)I Sudanese


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FacultyOur highly competitive selection process requires instructors to have a minimum of four years experience inlanguage acquisition training, in addition to appropriate academic training. The goal is to select effectiveinstructors who can also provide students with cultural contexts for the language and use personal experienceto present unique customs and traditions.

All of our language courses can be customized to meet your organizations unique needs and brought to yourlocation. Those marked with an asterisk are open to the public and are offered as regularly scheduled eveningand weekend sessions in our Washington, D.C. classrooms.

Representative Languages

Partial Client ListCorcoran Gallery of Art

Defense Information Services AgencyDepartment of Defense/PentagonDepartment of StateDistrict of Columbia Departmentof Public Works

National Maritime Intelligence CenterU.S. CongressWalter Reed Army Medical Center

The Graduate School is accredited by theCommission of the Council on OccupationalEducation (COE), a national accrediting bodyrecognized by the Department of Education.

AlbanianArabic (MSA and dialects)*Chinese (Cantonese)Chinese (Mandarin)*

CzechEnglish as a Second Language*Farsi*French*GaelicGerman*Greek (Modern)*

HebrewHindi*HungarianIndonesian

Italian*Japanese*Korean*LithuanianPashtoPolishPortuguese (Brazilian)*

Russian*Serbo-CroatianSpanish*Swahili

SwedishThaiTurkish*Urdu*Vietnamese

For further information, visit our Web site at graduateschool.edu or call us at (888) 744-GRAD.


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Proficiency in foreign languages is a distinct advantage in todays job market

and mission-critical for many organizations. With more than 45 years of

experience providing high-quality language training, we consistently design

and deliver instruction that leads to proven results for our participants. We

seek not only to facilitate language and cultural learning, but to ensure that

our participants leave our programs having acquired highly usable language

skills essential to their professional and personal objectives.

Our extensive curriculum, coupled with a world-class faculty, has further

enhanced our reputation as a premier provider of language training. During

the last decade, the Graduate Schools Foreign Languages program has helped

more than 110,000 students achieve their language learning goals.


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