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

[Goldberg, Stuart H]

...but this list actually has Russian on it. Can you send us a link to the page from which the .pdf can be accessed? 

Regards, 
Stuart Goldberg 

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From: "Katie Evans" <evan0280 at UMN.EDU> 
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 2:34:59 PM 
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] An unhappy rumor about Russian's critical language status: anyone out there know anything? 

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 (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 




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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 

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