MIDDLEBURY, Vt. June 28 marked the beginning of the Middlebury Language Schools, known internationally for their full immersion approach to language teaching. This summer the Language Schools will welcome over 1,600 students and 300 faculty and staff to both the Middlebury College campus and online to study Abenaki, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The School of Japanese launched a Master’s in Japanese, and the School of Abenaki will host their first in-person two-week program with 24 students–after holding their inaugural session remotely in 2020.
Due to the pandemic, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and Russian will operate online this summer. The School of Hebrew will have both online and in-person programs, while the remaining schools will all operate on the Middlebury campus in Vermont. Classes will be conducted online for the first week for all programs while in-person program participants complete the arri