Language Training Grants
Grants that support intensive language instruction for the academic year, semester and summer programs.
| LANGUAGE TRAINING FUNDING | ||||
| Source | Grant Title | Field of Study | Notes | Deadline |
| American Council of Learned Societies/Luce Foundation | Language Grants to Individuals for Summer Study | Intensive summer language Study | Intensive summer study of the following East European languages: Albanian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, and Slovene. | See website |
| American Councils for International Education | Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program | Advanced Russian Language | Designed to improve participants' oral, listening, reading, and writing proficiency in Russian language to develop their knowledge of Russian history, politics, culture and society. | February 15, 2013 |
| American Institute for Yemeni Studies | Intensive Arabic Language Study | AIYS is accepting ONLY applications for research on Yemen in venues other than Yemen. At this time AIYS is NOT accepting applications for intensive Arabic study. | January 15, 2013 | |
| American Research Institute of Turkey | Fellowships for Intensive Advanced Turkish Language Study in Istanbul, Turkey | Turkish language | Fellowships for up to 15 advanced students to participatein the summer program in intensive advanced Turkish language at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul. | See website |
| Blakemore Foundation | Blakemore Freeman Fellowships | Asian languages | Awarded for one year of advanced-level language study in East or Southeast Asia in approved language programs. | December 31, 2012 |
| Boren Awards for International Study | Boren Fellowships | International language study | Fellowships for U.S. graduate students to add international and language components to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. | January 31, 2013 |
| Council of American Overseas Research Centers | Critical Language Scholarship | foreign languages | Group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to 10 weeks for U.S. citizen undergraduate, master ’s, and Ph.D. students. Part of U.S. government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical-need foreign languages. | See website |
| DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service | Intensive Language Courses in Germany | German language | Grants for graduate students at North American universities to attend eight-week intensive language courses at leading institutes in Germany. | December 15, 2012 |
| Fulbright-Hays Doctoral | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Program | International and foreign language education | Provides grants to fund individual doctoral students to conduct research in other countries in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of 6 to 12 months. | See website |
| Indiana University Bloomington | Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages | intensive language training | Intensive language training offered at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University. Foreign Language and Area Studies funding available to Princeton graduate students. Students must access website via Indiana University-Bloomington site. | March 1, 2013 |
| Istituto Italiano di Culture | Italian language | Scholarships to students who wish to study the Italian language and culture in Italy are offered through The Italian Cultural Institute in New York. The scholarships consist of free tuition at schools, academies, or centers where Italian is taught to foreigners in Italy. | See website | |
| Institute of Turkish Studies | Turkish language study | For graduate students in the social sciences or humanities for summer travel to Turkey for language study in preparation for graduate research at an established Ottoman or Turkish language facility. | See website | |
| Korea Foundation | Fellowship for Korean Language Training | Korean language | Awarded to researchers and graduate students studying Korean Studies subjects who wish to have an opportunity to take a language immersion program and learn Korean in a systematic manner at a university in Korea. | See website |
| Yale MacMillan Center | East Asian Studies Summer Language Mini-Grants | Japanese, Chinese, and Korean | Support for the summer language study of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Master’s students, Ph.D. students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and graduate students in the professional schools are eligible. | See website |
| Yale MacMillan Center | Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships | Foreign anguage studies | Available to graduate and professional school students whose academic work includes foreign language study and whose career plans include teaching, public service or business related to African studies, European studies, or Middle East studies. | See website |
