CLS Spark is a virtual initiative for U.S. undergraduate students to learn languages essential to America’s engagement with the world. Designed to leverage best practices in online language learning developed by the CLS Program during the pandemic, CLS Spark provides American students the opportunity to study critical languages virtually when they may not have access to studying these languages on their campuses. Participants will spend the summer learning either Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Russian through online classes and activities facilitated by native speakers at a host institution abroad.

• Arabic for students with no formal classroom experience learning the language;
• Chinese for students with no formal classroom experience learning the language;
• Korean for students with no formal classroom experience learning the language;
• Japanese for students with no formal classroom experience or one year of formal classroom experience learning the language; and
• Russian for students with no formal classroom experience learning the language.