The 2020 National Examinations in World Languages (NEWL) for Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian have been postponed until May.
- Alumni UpdatesIn 1996, Thomas Burns decided to take his study of the Russian language to the next level by spending a semester in St. Petersburg and what is now the Russian Language and Area Studies Program. Since then, he's lived and worked in several other countries while building his career as a visual storyteller. Today, he is based in Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Across the GlobeShe speaks four languages. Her top five tips could help you start learning one too.
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When Kyle Spawn decided to study abroad in Moscow in 2018, he already knew a thing or two about living in Russia.
- Alumni HighlightCaroline and Liza haven’t met yet, but the nearly two-year-olds have been destined for friendship since before they were born. Their moms, Laura Carll and Tatyana Movshevich, have helped them become pen pals, shipping care packages between London and Erie, Pennsylvania. (The toddlers are not yet ready to write their own letters, but they do enjoy remote playdates through video calls.) Nurturing their daughters' friendship was a natural next step for the moms, best friends who have known each other since Ms. Movshevich's high school exchange year in America. Liza's mom met Caroline’s mom on her first day of high school in 2004, in Blandon, Pennsylvania, shortly after the school assembly that introduced Ms. Movshevich as an exchange student visiting from Russia.
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WASHINGTON — American Councils’ leadership met with Russia's Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, and representatives from the Russian Embassy to discuss U
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When the outgoing Kyrgyz ambassador to the US invited me to join him at his farewell reception in January, I gladly accepted.
- Across the GlobeIsabella Palange shares an update from her experience on the Russian Overseas Flagship Program, hosted at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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What story do you tell the most when people ask, "What was your program like?" - Alumni UpdatesAlumni Highlight
When a speaker presented on NSLI-Y at her school in Texas, Morgan was immediately intrigued. She had enjoyed studying Greek and Latin but wanted a new challenge.
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The US Department of Education's Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad awarded $240,840 to American Councils to provide scholarships to advanced students of Russian and Persian.