Language Learning
The Summer Abroad Program: Khmer Language and Culture is an intensive eight-week training in Khmer language and culture held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
This database and website, compiled by the University of Wisconsin, is an inventory of all US institutions offering instruction in Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) of Asia with particular attention to institutions offering distance learning options.
Babbel is an online language learning platform that offers interactive lessons and exercises to help learners improve their Indonesian language skills through vocabulary, grammar, and conversation practice.
The Blakemore Foundation offers language fellowships to support advanced study of East and Southeast Asian languages, providing financial assistance to graduate students, professionals, and individuals pursuing language immersion programs.
The Boren Awards provide scholarships and fellowships for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study critical languages in countries critical to U.S. national security, with a focus on fostering linguistic and cultural expertise.
Columbia and NYU students can freely cross-register for these courses and will receive credit at their home institution. Languages offered at their respective institution are Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Filipino.
The Critical Language Scholarship Program offers fully-funded language immersion programs for undergraduate and graduate students to study critical languages in countries around the world.
DARMASISWA is a scholarship program offered to all foreign students from countries that have diplomatic relations with Indonesia to study Bahasa Indonesia, art and culture. This program is organized by the Ministry of Education and Culture (MoEC) in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA).
Duolingo is a popular language learning app that gamifies the learning process, offering bite-sized lessons, quizzes, and rewards to engage learners in a variety of languages, including Vietnamese and Indonesian.
Mondly is a language learning platform that uses augmented reality technologies to create immersive language learning experiences for the languages: Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, and Tagalog.
The SEAlang Library was established in 2005. It provides language reference materials for Southeast Asia. SEAlang is a collaborative effort between CRCL and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS).
SEALC and GETSEA sponsor the facilitation of virtual conversation groups for all of the Southeast Asian languages regularly taught in North America: Burmese/Myanmar, Indonesian, Khmer, Tagalog/Filipino, Thai, and Vietnamese. This resource is open to undergraduate and graduate students.
Take a Southeast Asian language class via distance this Fall. Anyone is welcome to apply for and enroll in the courses listed below so long as they fulfill the specific requirements of the institution offering the language course.
The Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) is an eight-week intensive language training program for undergraduates, graduate students, professionals, and non-traditional students. Languages offered include Burmese, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Thai, and Vietnamese.
USINDO Summer Studies program is a specially designed language and cultural immersion that is distinct from most. It entails an intensive 10-week language and cultural studies fellowship held from May to August in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.