by Tamara Cario | Oct 31, 2019 | News
By Tammy Cario If you had told 17-year-old Devin Clarke that by the time he was 30, he would have joined the Army, learned a new language in 64 weeks, deployed multiple times to the Middle East and been injured in a blast, he wouldn’t have believed you. “I wanted to...
by Tamara Cario | Oct 28, 2019 | News
By Tammy Cario Training for the military tends to follow the same model with little change. The old adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is alive and well in the military services. Language training at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, on the...
by Tamara Cario | Oct 22, 2019 | News
By Tammy Cario If linguists are the unsung heroes of the intelligence world, then language managers are the support that keeps them going. Command Language Program Managers are responsible for linguists once they arrive at their new station. They help the linguists to...
by Tamara Cario | Sep 26, 2019 | News
By Tammy Cario Tadeusz Haska’s story reads like a movie straight out of Hollywood. Between his parents’ early deaths, his experiences in World War II Poland and the harrowing escapes he endured, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center instructor’s...
by Tamara Cario | Sep 12, 2019 | News
By Tammy Cario Modern Standard Arabic, considered written standard for language across the Middle East, could be compared to the Queen’s English. When the students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center learn Arabic, they begin with MSA and then go...
