Intensive Language Programs

"But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home. They must be sought abroad."
- James Joyce, Dubliners

This page describes intensive programs in Slavic and East European languages as well as in the languages of the Republics of the former Soviet Union. The listings include those programs offered in U.S. (and some Canadian) colleges and universities as well as in programs abroad. This is a free service provided by AATSEEL to such programs.

Each language has its own page, and programs are divided into the following categories: Summer Programs in the U.S., Summer Programs Abroad, and Semester/Year Programs Abroad. Information is added to this page as it is received, so check frequently for updates.

If your program is not listed and you would like it to be included, email Elizabeth Psyck the internet address and name of your program. Due to time limitations and the fact that this is a volunteer-supported effort, text descriptions of programs can no longer be posted.

Albanian	Armenian	Azeri	Belarusian	Bosnian	Bulgarian	Chuvash	Croatian
Czech	Dari	Estonian	Georgian	Hungarian	Kazakh	Kirgiz	Latvian
Lithuanian	Livonian	Macedonian	Moldovan	Polish	Romanian	Russian	Rusyn
Serbian	Slovak	Slovene	Tajik	Tatar	Turkmen	Ukrainian
Uyghur	Uzbek	Yakut	Yiddish

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Albanian |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs in the U.S.

• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute

Programs Abroad

• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute



Semester/Year




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Armenian |Back to Language Index


Summer

Programs in the U.S.

• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program
• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute
• Advanced Armenian from Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute
• ASPIRANTUM -Armenian School of Languages and Cultures, Erevan.



Semester/Year

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program
• Arizona State University.



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Azeri |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison based on student demand



Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program



Semester/Year




Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

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Belarusian |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program



Semester/Year




Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

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Bulgarian |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.



• University of Pittsburgh. Russian and East European Summer Language Institute

Programs Abroad

• International Center for Bulgarian Studies (ICBS). University of Veliko Turnovo

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Chuvash |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program



Semester/Year




Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

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Czech |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• Beloit College Center for Language Studies. Intensive Language Program
• Beloit College Center for Language Studies. Intensive Language Program


• UCLA Summer Czech Program.



Programs Abroad

• Ajoda Language School
• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program
• Charles University. Faculty of Philosophy. Summer Prague University
• Charles University. Institute of Slavonic Studies
• Charles University. Institute of Linguistic and Professional Training (Prague)
• Lexia International (Prague)
• Ohio State/Palacky University (Olomouc)
• Penn-in-Prague
• Prague Economics University. Central European Studies Program



Semester/Year




Programs Abroad

• Ajoda Language School
• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program
• CET Academic Programs. Jewish Studies in Prague
• Charles University. Institute of Czech Studies. Czech Language Seminar for Foreigners (Prague)
• Charles University. Institute of Linguistic and Professional Training (Prague)
• Lexia International (Prague)
• Masaryk University's Central European Studies Program (Brno)
• National Registration Center for Study Abroad (NRCSA
• Prague Economics University. Central European Studies Program



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Dari |Back to Language Index



Summer

Programs Abroad

• American University of Central Asia




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Estonian |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• Indiana University Baltic Studies Summer Institute
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Washington Baltic Studies Summer Institute
• University of Wisconsin, Madison Baltic Studies Summer Institute

Programs Abroad

• Baltic International Summer School

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Georgian |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• University of Chicago Summer Language Institute: Intensive Georgian
• Indiana University Summer Language Workshop





Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program. Tbilisi State University
• ASPIRANTUM -Armenian School of Languages and Cultures, Erevan.





Semester/Year




Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

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Hungarian |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• Beloit College Center for Language Studies. Intensive Language Program
• Columbia University. Intensive Hungarian.
• Indiana University Summer Language Workshop
  
• University of Pittsburgh. Russian and East European Summer Language Institute

Programs Abroad

• Debrecen Summer School (Hungary)
• Lexia International (Budapest)
• National Registration Center for Study Abroad (NRCSA). Hungary Homestudy (Budapest)
• University of Pecs. Hungarian Summer School and Hungarian for the Entire Family.



Semester/Year




Programs Abroad

• Bard College. Institute for International Liberal Education (Budapest)
• CIEE - Council on International Educational Exchange (Budapest)
• Lexia International (Budapest)
• University of Pecs. Hungarian Language Semester Program.

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Kazakh |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program (Kazakh State University of International Relations and World Languages (Almaty)
• Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan) Summer School in Russian and Eurasian
  Studies (SSRES)



Semester/Year




Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program (Kazakh State University of International Relations and World Languages (Almaty)

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Kirgiz |Back to Language Index



Summer

Programs in the U.S.

• Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison based on student demand

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program
• American University of Central Asia



Semester/Year




Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

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Latvian |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• Indiana University Baltic Studies Summer Institute
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI)
• University of Washington Baltic Studies Summer Institute
• University of Wisconsin, Madison Baltic Studies Summer Institute

Programs Abroad

• Baltic International Summer School



Semester/Year




Programs Abroad

• University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire (UWEC)/Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies

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Lithuanian |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• Indiana University Baltic Studies Summer Institute
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Washington Baltic Studies Summer Institute
• University of Wisconsin, Madison Baltic Studies Summer Institute

Programs Abroad

• Baltic International Summer School

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Livonian |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs Abroad

• Baltic International Summer School

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Macedonian |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute



Programs Abroad

• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute

Semester/Year






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Moldovan |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program



Semester/Year




Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

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Polish |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• Arizona State University. Critical Languages Institute


• University of Pittsburgh. Russian and East European Summer Language Institute

Programs Abroad

• Summer Practicum at the Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan)
• The Catholic University of Lublin. Summer. Summer School of Polish Language and Culture
• IKO-The Institute of Polish Language for Foreigners
• International School of Polish Language and Culture in Krakow
• Jagiellonian University (UJ). Summer School of Polish Language and Culture (Krakow)
• Lexia International (Krakow)
• National Registration Center for Study Abroad (NRCSA). Poland Homestudy (Warsaw)
• Nicolas Copernicus University. Summer School of Polish Language and Culture (Torun)


• University of Silesia. School of Polish Language and Culture (Katowice)
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Semester/Year




Programs Abroad



• The Catholic University of Lublin. Summer. Summer School of Polish Language and Culture
• International School of Polish Language and Culture in Krakow
• Jagiellonian University (UJ). Polonia Institute (Krakow)
• Lexia International (Krakow)
• Nicolas Copernicus University. Center of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners (Torun)

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Romanian |Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.



• University of California, Los Angeles



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Russian Back to Language Index



Summer




Programs in the U.S.

• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute.
• Beloit College Center for Language Studies. Intensive Language Program
• Bryn Mawr College. Summer Russian Language Institute
• Columbia University. The Russian Practicum.
• Concordia Language Villages.
• Five College Center for the Study of World Languages
• Harvard Summer School. Russian
• Indiana University Summer Language Workshop
  
  
• Middlebury College Russian School
• The Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Summer Intensive Russian Program
• Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. Political Russian


• Portland State University, Intensive First & Third-Year Russian


• Rutgers University. Intensive Elementary Russian.
• University of California, Berkeley. Elementary Intensive Russian
• University of California, Los Angeles.
• University of Chicago. Summer Language Institute
• University of Michigan. Summer Language Institute
• University of Pittsburgh. Russian and East European Summer Language Institute
• University of Virginia. Summer Russian Language Institute
• University of Washington. Intensive Summer Russian
• University of Wisconsin Intensive First, Second and Third Year Russian
• Yale University/St. Petersburg State University. Intensive Russian

Programs Abroad

• Learn Russian in the EU/Daugavpils University (Daugavpils, Latvia)
• ACLI - Advanced Critical Language Institute for Russian Immersion.
• American University of Central Asia
• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute.
• ASPIRANTUM -Armenian School of Languages and Cultures, Erevan.
• Baikal National University, Irkutsk.
• ACTR/ACCELS --BRLI (Business Russian Language and Internship Program). Moscow International University and Russian State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg
• ACTR/ACCELS --RLASP (Russian Language and Area Studies Program). Moscow International University, Russian State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, and The CORA Center for Russian Language Study (Vladimir)
• Alphabet School of Languages (St. Petersburg)
• AMBergh Management. Study Russian in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg)
• Bard College. Institute for International Liberal Education/Smolny College (St. Petersburg)
• Boston College. Dostoevskij Graduate Summer Program in St. Petersburg
• CIEE - Council on International Educational Exchange (St. Petersburg)
• Colgate University. Moscow Study Group
• Echo Eastern Europe Russian and Ukrainian School (Kiev, Ukraine)
• Dickinson College. Russian Language Immersion Program (Moscow and St. Petersburg)
• EducaCentre. Russian language courses
• Extra Class Language Centre
• Indiana University. Study Tour in St. Petersburg
• Interlingua-West (Voronezh)
• International Institute of Russian Language and Culture. Summer School of Russian Language and Area Studies (Tver)
• Interuniversity Centre Canada (St. Petersburg, Moscow)
• Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
• Liden and Denz Language School in St. Petersburg
• Language Link (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd)
• Lingua Service Centre (Nizhny Novgorod)
• LinkInMinsk.com
• Moscow Institute for Advanced Studies/ International University of Moscow
• National Registration Center for Study Abroad (NRCSA). Russian Homestay (Moscow)
• Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan) Summer School in Russian and Eurasian
  Studies (SSRES)
• Nevsky Institute of Language & Culture (St. Petersburg)
• Novosibirsk State University. Summer Program for Studying Russian.
• Omsk State Pedagogical University. Russian Language Training Program
• ProBa Language School in St. Petersburg.
• "Enjoy Russian," Russian Language School in Petrozavodsk (Karelia, Russia)
• Russian Language and Culture School. International University (Moscow)
• Russian Language School Durbe (Riga, Latvia)
• Echo Eastern Europe Russian and Ukrainian School (Kiev, Ukraine)
• Rutgers University, Rutgers in Russia. (St. Petersburg)
• School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS) (Various locations)
• Serendipity-Russia (Vladimir)
• Tallinn Pedagogical University. Russian Language Summer School
• Texas Tech University. Summer Program (St. Petersburg)
• University of Arizona. Russian Abroad
• University of Kentucky CORA Program (Vladimir)
• VIP Education Centre. School of Russian Language in Dubna
• Wyoming-Saratov Initiative. Wyoming-Saratov Student Exchange Program
• Ziegler & Partner. Russian Language Courses at Moscow State University



Semester/Year




Programs Abroad



• Learn Russian in the EU/Daugavpils University (Daugavpils, Latvia)
• Baikal National University, Irkutsk.
• ACTR/ACCELS --BRLI (Business Russian Language and Internship Program. Moscow International University and Russian State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg
• ACTR/ACCELS --RLASP (Russian Language and Area Studies Program). Moscow International University, Russian State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, and The CORA Center for Russian Language Study (Vladimir)
• Adventures in Education's "Petro-Teach" Teaching Program in St. Petersburg High Schools
• Alphabet School of Languages (St. Petersburg)
• AMBergh Management. Study Russian in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg)
• Arizona State University
• Bard College/St. Petersburg State University program at Smolny College
• Boston University Division of International Programs. Moscow Internship Program
• CIEE - Council on International Educational Exchange (St. Petersburg)
• Colgate University. Moscow Study Group
• Echo Eastern Europe Russian and Ukrainian School (Kiev, Ukraine)
• Eastern European Study Abroad.
• EducaCentre. Russian language courses
• Grint Centre for Education and Culture
• Interlingua-West (Voronezh
• Interuniversity Centre Canada (St. Petersburg, Moscow)
• Liden and Denz Language School (St. Petersburg, Moscow)
• Middlebury College. C.V. Starr Middlebury College School in Russia (Irkutsk, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Voronezh)
• Language Link (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd)
• Lingua Service Center (Nizhny Novgorod)
• LinkInMinsk.com
• Moscow Institute for Advanced Studies/ International University of Moscow
• Nevsky Institute of Language & Culture (St. Petersburg)
• ProBa Language School in St. Petersburg.
• The School of Russian and Asian Studies
• Serendipity in Russia (Vladimir)
• Stony Brook University Semester and Academic Year Exchange Program to St. Petersburg, Russia
• Tver InterContact Group Language Schools
• University of Arizona. Arizona Russian Abroad
• University of Kentucky CORA Program (Vladimir)
• VIP Education Centre. School of Russian Language in Dubna
• Voronezh State University. Russian-language courses.
• Wyoming-Saratov Initiative. Wyoming-Saratov Student Exchange
• Ziegler & Partner. Russian Language Courses at Moscow State University



Programs in the U.S.



• Portland State Russian Flagship Program
• UCLA Russian Flagship Program

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Rusyn |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs Abroad

• Studium Carpato-Ruthenorum International Summer School for Rusyn Language and Culture at Presov University, Presov, Slovakia.

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Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs in the U.S.

• Arizona State University. Critical Languages Institute
• Indiana University Summer Language Workshop
  
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Pittsburgh Russian and East European Summer Language Institute

Programs Abroad

• Arizona State University. Critical Languages Institute
• Azbukum. Centre for Serbian Language and Culture (Novi Sad, Belgrade)
• Centar za strane jezike. Croatian Language Course in Dubrovnik
• University of Kansas. Summer School of Croatian Language and Culture (Zagreb, Dubrovnik)
• Northwestern University. Dubrovnik Summer Study Abroad Program
• Radionica. Summer School of Serbian Language and Culture (Valjevo)
• University of Novi Sad. International Summer School
• University of Zagreb. University School of Croatian Language and Culture

Semester/Year

Programs Abroad

• Centar za strane jezike. Croatian Language Course in Dubrovnik

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Slovak |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs in the U.S.

• University of Pittsburgh Russian and East European Summer Language Institute

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Slovene |Back to Language Index

General Information: Society for Slovene Studies

Summer

Programs Abroad

• University of Ljubljana. Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language

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Tajik |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs in the U.S.

• Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program. Samarkand State University
• American University of Central Asia

Semester/Year

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program. Samarkand State University

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Tatar |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs in the U.S.

Programs Abroad

• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute.
• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

Semester/Year

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program
• Arizona State University.

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Turkmen |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs in the U.S.

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

Semester/Year

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

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Ukrainian |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs in the U.S. and Canada

• Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute
• Indiana University Summer Language Workshop
  
• University of Alberta, Edmonton. Ukrainian Through its Living Culture (Lviv)
• University of Pittsburgh. Russian and East European Summer Language Institute

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program. Ivan Franko State University (L'viv) and Taras Shevchenko National University (Kiev)
• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute.
• Cornell in Odessa
• Eastern European Study Abroad.
• Greifswald Ukrainian Summer School


• University of Alberta. Ukrainian Through its Living Culture (Lviv)
• University of Alberta. Ukrainian Travel-Study Program (Lviv)
• University of Kansas. Summer Program Abroad (L'viv) 
• Echo Eastern Europe Russian and Ukrainian School (Kiev, Ukraine)

Semester/Year

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program. Ivan Franko State University (L'viv) and Taras Shevchenko National University (Kiev)
• EESA- Eastern European Study Abroad (Kharkiv, Kyiv, Ukraine and Moscow, Russia)
• Echo Eastern Europe Russian and Ukrainian School (Kiev, Ukraine)

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Uyghur |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs in the U.S.

• Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Uzbek |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs in the U.S.

• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute.
• Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison based on student demand

Programs Abroad

• American University of Central Asia
• Arizona State University. Critical Language Institute.
• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program. Alisher Navoi Language Institute (Tashkent)

Semester/Year

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program. Alisher Navoi Language Institute (Tashkent)

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Yakut |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

Semester/Year

Programs Abroad

• American Councils ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program

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Yiddish |Back to Language Index

Summer

Programs in the U.S.

• The Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture (New York University and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)