What are the Category 3 languages?
Category III languages – 48 week-long courses:
- Persian Farsi.
- Russian.
- Tagalog.
What are Category 4 languages?
The darkest countries on the map represent Category 4 languages, those that take the longest for Americans to learn: Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. FSI literature refers to these as “super-hard languages.”
Does DLI make you fluent?
That’s where the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center comes in. It’s one of the world’s foremost language schools that can make you fluent quickly, whether you’re learning Arabic, Farsi, Pashto or Mandarin Chinese. The DLIFLC teaches 17 foreign languages in Monterey, California.
How difficult is DLI?
No matter what language you are learning, it is going to be insanely fast-paced and difficult. If it’s a more difficult language, they may spend a month on basic alphabet and sounds, but once you’ve got that down, they pour on the vocabulary.
Is there a category 5 language?
Category V – It usually takes 88 weeks or 2200 hours to reach S-3/R-3 proficiency in these languages. This small group of “super-hard languages” includes Chinese (Mandarin), Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic.
Is DLI a college?
The Defense Language Institute (DLI) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) educational and research institution consisting of two separate entities which provide linguistic and cultural instruction to the Department of Defense, other federal agencies and numerous customers around the world.
Can civilians attend DLI?
The institute is situated on the Presidio of Monterey, (POM), California. Civilians and veterans may attend DLIFLC when language proficiency is a condition of his/her employment in one of the above organizations. The employee’s supervisor must document the requirement and eligibility.
What language is best for CIA?
Although the CIA undoubtedly employs language officers in nearly all foreign languages, the NCS has particular interest in individuals with fluency and cultural awareness in:
- Arabic.
- Korean.
- Pashto.
- Chinese.
- Dari.
- Russian.
- Persian/Farsi.
- Somali.
What foreign languages does the CIA want?
The list of in-demand languages by the nation’s intelligence agen- cies is constantly in flux as the world situation changes. Currently, all three agencies—FBI, CIA, and NSA—consider Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Pashto, Russian, and Urdu as critical, but national security needs are certainly not limited to these languages.
How many languages do you need to know to join the CIA?
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Many Americans don’t learn a second or a third language from birth, let alone a language that the CIA or U.S. Foreign Service might want.
What language does the FBI look for?
We consider nine languages critical to our investigations—Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese. But FBI linguists may also be called upon to provide foreign language and cultural expertise in many more languages.
What language is most in demand by the CIA?
Listed as “mission critical” by the CIA. Spanish speakers are in high demand across the job market. It has many dialects and is the native language of 30 countries. It’s estimated that more than 399 million people speak some form of Spanish with 32.4 million in the United States.