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US Department of State Critical Language Scholarships

  

Fall Deadline (November).

Highly competitive. The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Each summer, CLS provides rigorous academic instruction in fifteen languages (Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu) that are critical to America's national security and economic prosperity.

For more information:  https://clscholarship.org