Posted on Dec 17, 2022
Is it true while attending DLI, midway through you are sent to a country speaking your TL for two weeks as “in country training”?
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Heading to DLI soon.
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** EDIT ** - Apparently they DO send a number of students overseas .. according to their site, "approximately 700 students" each year. See comments below. However, it's not everyone since they have thousands of students each year.
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I'm familiar with multi-day events where they do immersion training as a field training exercise, but that's done at Ft. Ord - not in another country.
They are conducted very similar to what you'd expect in a MOUT exercise (i.e., urban training environment) with play actors speaking only the targeted language.
DLI DOES offer to send a few of the top students overseas, budget allowing, but I don't believe it's open to the entire class.
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I'm familiar with multi-day events where they do immersion training as a field training exercise, but that's done at Ft. Ord - not in another country.
They are conducted very similar to what you'd expect in a MOUT exercise (i.e., urban training environment) with play actors speaking only the targeted language.
DLI DOES offer to send a few of the top students overseas, budget allowing, but I don't believe it's open to the entire class.
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COL Randall C.
Ok ... found this tidbit when I looked over DLI's site:
Since 2005, some of the DLIFLC’s best performing students have had an opportunity to travel on three to six week long in-country (OCONUS) immersions. During in-country immersions students attend more than thirty hours per week of classroom language and culture study at the host institute and participate in daily out-of-class activities and weekly field trips and excursions.
So far, DLIFLC has conducted immersions in Egypt, Jordan, Korea, China, Russia, Ukraine, France, Costa Rica, Turkey, and the Philippines. Approximately 700 students go on an in-country immersion each year. Many of those students note that the in-country experience has been irreplaceable, both in terms of the language training and the cultural understanding that it has helped them gain.
Since 2005, some of the DLIFLC’s best performing students have had an opportunity to travel on three to six week long in-country (OCONUS) immersions. During in-country immersions students attend more than thirty hours per week of classroom language and culture study at the host institute and participate in daily out-of-class activities and weekly field trips and excursions.
So far, DLIFLC has conducted immersions in Egypt, Jordan, Korea, China, Russia, Ukraine, France, Costa Rica, Turkey, and the Philippines. Approximately 700 students go on an in-country immersion each year. Many of those students note that the in-country experience has been irreplaceable, both in terms of the language training and the cultural understanding that it has helped them gain.
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COL Randall C. thank you sir! That is a really amazing opportunity and good motivation to be too in your class.
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There are programs know as LET - think it stands for Language Enhancement Training, if I remember correctly - where the unit may send you to a language school in a country where the language is spoken. Usually for two weeks. This is something the unit pays for after you've already trained at DLI.
I'm certain DLI is not coordinating international travels for thousands of students across multiple branches of the military, along with passports, visas, and country clearance requests.
I'm certain DLI is not coordinating international travels for thousands of students across multiple branches of the military, along with passports, visas, and country clearance requests.
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