[EDLING:7] US: DLI Beefs Up Language Skills

[Francis M. Hult]

Military.com

DLI Beefs Up Language Skills

Basic language programs at DLIFLC fluctuate with changing international 
situations and DOD's needs. In the post-9/11 era, the largest training program 
is no longer Russian, but Arabic. What has really changed at the DOD level, and 
thus at the institute itself, is the realization that the nation's armed forces 
need linguists capable in many less commonly taught languages, Hanagan said. 

"If someone had told me six years ago that we would be teaching languages such 
as Urdu, Kurdish, Uzbek or Hindi, I would have told them they were crazy," said 
Hanagan. A list of most-needed linguists is issued each year by DOD.

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