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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Linguistics

Swahili

Celebrating International Education Week with a Taste of Language

International Education Week is an annual event that aims to celebrate global education, cultural exchange, and scholarship as well as to raise awareness about the breadth of international education activities and resources available in our community. This event is sponsored by International...

Celebrating Outstanding Achievement: Two Swahili Students Win Prestigious Scholarships!

We are thrilled to announce that two of our students, Robert Herbolich and Natalie Klunke, have been awarded highly competitive scholarships. Robert has been awarded the prestigious Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). This will provide him with a unique opportunity to travel to Tanzania where he...

An undergraduate student awarded scholarship to study Swahili

One of our students, Melanie Rohla, was recently awarded the 2018 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Swahili this summer. Melanie Rohla, a junior studying Environmental Science and Global Studies, will take intensive Swahili courses in Arusha, Tanzania for 8 weeks...

Swahili

Swahili is spoken and understood by approximately 46 million people in large parts of East Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and parts of Somalia and the Congo.

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Linguistics

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Urbana, IL 61801

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