Indiana University Bloomington

Language Study

Alsatian musician. Tia Trueblood.

IU offers over 40 modern languages.

11 Western Europe languages:

Students of Western Europe or the expanding European Union also have the opportunity to bridge the gap between East and West by studying Slavic or Uralic and Altaic languages, representing the entire geographical range of European tongues, from Finnish in the north to Turkish in the Mediterranean, as well as Ukrainian, Romanian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Old Icelandic, Albanian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Russian, and Arabic.

 

Resources for language study:

2009 National Institute for Summer Scandinavian Studies

Culture courses: May 11-15, 2009

Norwegian and Swedish language courses: May 18-July 10, 2009

2009 Summer Dutch Institute

Culture courses: May 11-15, 2009

Language courses: May 18-July 10, 2009

West European Conversation Hours

For additional language events, including film series, see the WEST IU Events Calendar.

WEST Movie Library

The WEST office houses over 600 feature films and 50 documentaries, as well as book titles and periodicals, all covering West European topics. Country publications on Belgium, Cyprus, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Sweden, and Norway are also available. We lend materials to teachers and may be able to acquire additional resources at your request. Browse our online list of library film holdings.

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships

IU Language Departments: