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EU Languages offered at IU

Most languages spoken in EU member states are taught at IU

Indiana University offers one of the broadest ranges of European languages in the United States, regularly offering 17 of the 23 European Union’s official languages, all official languages of the three candidate countries, and other languages spoken by minorities in the EU. The list of languages below is designed to guide you to the department or program that offers these languages at IU.

Official EU Languages:

Czech	Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, SWSEEL
Dutch	Department of Germanic Studies, SDI
Estonian	Department of Central Eurasian Studies, BALSSI
Finnish	Department of Central Eurasian Studies
French	Department of French and Italian
German	Department of Germanic Studies
Greek (Modern)	West European Studies, SWSEEL
Hungarian	Department of Central Eurasian Studies, SWSEEL
Italian	Department of French and Italian
Latvian	BALSSI Only
Lithuanian	BALSSI Only
Polish	Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, SWSEEL
Portuguese	Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Romanian	Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, SWSEEL
Slovene	SWSEEL Only
Spanish	Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Swedish	Independent Study with Dr. Gergana May

Official Languages of Candidate States:

Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian	Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, SWSEEL
Icelandic (Modern)	Independent Study with Dr. Rex Sprouse
Macedonian	SWSEEL Only
Turkish	Department of Central Eurasian Studies

European Free Trade Area (EFTA):

Norwegian

Department of Germanic Studies

Other Languages Spoken by Minorities in the EU:

Albanian	SWSEEL Only
Catalan	Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Russian	Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, SWSEEL
Ukrainian	Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, SWSEEL
Welsh	Independent Study with Dr. Kevin Rottet
Yiddish	Department of Germanic Studies, SWSEEL

In addition to language courses during the fall and spring semesters, IU offers many intensive summer language classes. IU annually sponsors the Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL), and regularly hosts the Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI), and the Summer Dutch Institute (SDI). The exact list of languages offered at these summer institutes changes yearly, as do the locations for BALSSI and SDI. Please check their websites for more information.

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