An unhappy rumor about Russian's critical language status: anyone out there know anything?

[Katie Evans]

Dear all,

I can confirm that this is true with the foreign service. Russian is no
longer considered a critical language and therefore you don't not get any
additional bonus points for it.

Here's the updated listing of critical language information from the State
Department website:

*Beginning with the June 2012 FSOT cohort*, Generalist candidates can
receive .17 bonus points for all languages listed
here<http://careers.state.gov/media/pdfs/language-points-2012>(pdf) if
they pass the telephone language test at a speaking level 3 after
passing the Oral Assessment. Candidates testing in the eight languages
eligible for higher bonus points need only a level 2 speaking ability (as
measured on the telephone test) to obtain the .17 language bonus points.
Only the following eight languages are eligible for higher bonus points:
Arabic; Chinese (Mandarin); Hindi; Persian (Dari); Persian (Farsi); Pashto;
Urdu; and Korean.

I'm not sure about scholarships or other grant programs through the state
department.

Katie

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Monnier, Nicole M.
<MonnierN at missouri.edu>wrote:

>   Dear all,
>
>  I just heard an unhappy rumor that Russian may be stripped of its
> critical language status. (My source is a student who had an internship in
> Moscow through the State Dept this summer.)
>
>  I am hoping that it is groundless, but wondered whether anyone out there
> had any information?
>
>  Troubled,
>
>  Nicole
>
>
>
> ****************************
> Dr. Nicole Monnier
> Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
> Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
> German & Russian Studies
> 428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
> University of Missouri
> Columbia, MO 65211
>
> phone: 573.882.3370
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