Foreign Language Studies

Language fluency is global fluency

Indiana University teaches over 80 languages—that’s more than any university in the United States. This means you can study everything from Arabic to Zulu and gain valuable insights into how other people and cultures see the world.

 

Language Flagships

Master a critical language

Indiana University supports a nation-leading three US government Language Flagship programs, which provide instruction in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), and Russian. These programs only for undergraduate students.

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Language Workshop

Learn through immersion

The Language Workshop is the most diverse program of its kind, offering eight weeks of intensive study in languages from Bosnian to Russian to Ukranian.

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Communicate with the world

All Hamilton Lugar School majors are required to take at least four semesters of language study. Here is a sampling of the more than 80 languages taught at Indiana University (divided by region):

  • Akan/Twi
  • Bamana
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Swahili/Kiswahili
  • Wolof
  • Yoruba
  • Zulu/IsiZulu

  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Vietnamese

  • Bosnian
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Polish
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Ukrainian

  • Azerbaijani
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • Hungarian
  • Kazakh
  • Kurdish
  • Kyrgyz
  • Mongolian
  • Pashto
  • Persian
  • Tajik
  • Tibetan
  • Turkish
  • Uighur
  • Uzbek

  • Bengali
  • Hindi
  • Sanskrit
  • Urdu

  • Haitian Creole
  • Quechua
  • Yucatec Maya

  • Arabic
  • Egyptian–Middle (Hieroglyphic)
  • Hebrew (Biblical and Modern)
  • Turkish

  • Burmese
  • Indonesian
  • Thai

  • Dutch
  • Greek (Classical and Modern)
  • Latin (Classical)
  • Norwegian
  • Yiddish

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