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![]() Army Training and Doctrine Command, told DLI's Globe magazine that technology alone would never replace human interaction. In addition to classroom training, the institute also publishes Language Survival Kits tailored to specific countries for use in the field and has created a set of CD-ROM disks, Countries in Perspective, so that the troops can put them into their laptops and “educate themselves," the commandant said.Īfter a visit to the Institute in March, General William Wallace, commander of the U.S. Mansager said DLI also teaches a separate class on world religions to help understand foreign cultures. ![]() "We often do what we call an isolation-immersion exercise using a specially built kitchen where we provide the raw ingredients, and students - with faculty help - will cook, for example, a Korean meal." Nearly every aspect of international culture is covered in the courses, including cuisine, he said. For example, one instructor could teach Arab history in Arabic while another could lecture about Spanish art history in Spanish. Mansager said nearly all the instructors are native-born speakers, enabling them to offer side-by-side cultural training. The institute soon will welcome a group of Danish officers who will receive Pashto language training. The languages considered the most difficult - Arabic, Korean, Chinese and Japanese - require 18 months of instruction. Russian, Farsi, Pashto and Dari take a year. French, Italian, Spanish and German take about six months to teach. The commandant explained that 70 percent to 80 percent of the graduates become signals-intercept specialists, 15 percent go into intelligence and 5 percent become foreign area officers, advising military commands on international political-military issues.Ĭourse length is determined by language difficulty for native speakers of English, he explained. Arabic attracts the highest number of students, closely followed by Chinese and Korean. ![]() With that in mind, he said, about 3,500 students are receiving training at the Presidio of Monterey, with the Air Force representing the largest contingent of uniformed personnel - around 1,300. defense commitments range from Bosnia and Kosovo to Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, with missions that might change rapidly from combat to peacekeeping and training, according to Mansager. From 2003 to 2004, he served as political-military division chief of the Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan.Ĭultural and language expertise are critical goals now that U.S. officer to attend the Polish Command and Staff College in Rembertow, Poland, in 1994. Mansager, a West Point graduate, studied Polish and Russian at DLI in 1993 and was the first U.S. The event featured international cuisine as well as dancing and theatrical performances representing the cultures of the 24 languages currently being taught there. The commandant recently spoke to USINFO after hosting the annual “Language Day" at the DLI Foreign Language Center in Monterey. Defense Language Institute (DLI) has trained tens of thousands of military and civilian students, and "we have found that culture and language are inseparable," says U.S. troops now involves teaching cultural sensitivity as well as the languages needed for a widening array of global missions. Monterey, California – Language education for thousands of U.S.
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