Stanford University Language Programs

The Stanford Language Center has been offering the highest quality language instruction and assessment since its establishment in 1995. With course offerings in more than forty languages, Stanford Language Center’s programs are proficiency-oriented and standards-based. Stanford’s language programs emphasize doing rather than knowing so that you learn to speak, listen, read, and write in ways that are immediately useful in a real-world setting.

Language programs at Stanford University are housed in the language departments (East Asian Languages, French and Italian, German Studies, Slavic, and Spanish and Portuguese) as well as through the Center itself (Arabic, Hebrew, Swahili, as well as an array of additional less-commonly taught languages) have committed themselves to impart to you a set of second language literacies