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A selection of language courses advertised in State Magazine by the SLS in July 1997. The School of Language Studies (SLS) [13] offers instruction in more than 70 languages and proficiency testing in over 100 languages. Enrollments may be 8–44 weeks, depending on the difficulty of the language and the individual's proficiency objectives.
The National Security Education Program (NSEP) is a U.S. federal government initiative to enhance U.S. national security and economic competitiveness by increasing “critical-need” foreign language skills, cultural understanding, and regional expertise within the U.S. federal workforce.
The Defense Language Institute (DLI) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) educational and research institution consisting of two separate entities which provide linguistic and cultural instruction to the Department of Defense, other federal agencies and numerous customers around the world.
The intensive language class teaches absolute beginners the basics of Korean including hangul, counting, and basic conversation. By the end of the course students are able to read, write, and carry out everyday conversations at a Novice-Low level. Classes are twice a week for 2.5 hours over the course of ten weeks, adding up to fifty hours of ...
It is the standard grading scale for language proficiency in the United States's federal-level service. It was originally developed by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR), which included representatives of the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, based at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center (NFATC).
The languages are broken into tiers based on their difficulty level for a native English speaker as determined by the Defense Language Institute. The category into which a language is placed also determines the length of its basic course as taught at DLI. To qualify to pursue training in a language, one needs a minimum score of 95.
Each course typically runs for two weeks or less, except for the basic training of new hires (designated "CIA 101"), which lasts several weeks, and language courses, which run between 21 and 44 weeks. CIA officers receive training throughout their agency careers, and course offerings are continuously updated to keep pace with current events.
The Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) is an unfunded organization comprising various agencies of the United States federal government with the purpose of coordinating and sharing information on foreign language activities at the federal level.