US Military's Language School Draws Positive Attention

[@dulegumeni]

One correction to the above description is needed: The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) traces its roots to the eve of America’s entry into World War II, when the U.S.Army established a secret school at the Presidio of San Francisco to teach the Japanese language. Classes began November 1, 1941, with four instructors and 60 students in an abandoned airplane hangar at Crissy Field.

[@matildawolfram4687]

My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!

[@nasimdaryaa4947]

Hello :I am from Afganistan, good luck for US troops.

[@tawseeftaher9109]

@Gucci Potter needed to be

[@g.dillonnicholson1796]

God bless the Afghani People!

[@f00foo10]

U are bache baz

[@samanshp]

This didn’t age well

[@angelcrj]

so we just gonna ignore that theres a noose on the screen @ 3:31

[@zachgraham6543]

Angelcrj it's obviously part of an educational slide, so what about it?

[@parkerjeans5777]

In a combat zone this isnt so bad

[@edwnx0]

1:38 "Mandarian"

[@yaboyg2049]

🤣

[@Ping63ms]

Passif ocean

[@retcutter10]

Went through Russian language training (AFSC 203x1MA) in 1968. At that time school was at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. Instructors were all native-born speakers, with most classes never even taught in English. It was a 38-week course learning the language followed by a 14-week course at Goodfellow AFB learning what the USAF wanted us to do with it. The training was tough, but worth it with interesting work once you finally get into the field. (Spent last year as a linguist/analyst at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland.)

[@DrainTheWarp]

I leave for BMT in 24 days, I’m shipping as an Airborne Linguist (1A8X1). I hope I’m able to pick up Russian quickly, I already know a few basics as well as the alphabet.

[@pep590]

@@DrainTheWarp How has your Russian study at DLI going? How long till graduation?

[@pep590]

WE are a grateful nation for you Steven.

[@dmvgames731]

What was your level of fluency after the course

[@Karoke77]

It is indeed the most difficult language for native English speakers. Both the written and spoken language is "alien" to us.

[@jaidentrey7517]

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[@byronliu680]

Wow, they speak really well

[@MrSodaBelly]

I heard this job pays the most in the military! My friend has a bachelor degree in the medical field & is in the army and told me a 23 yr old E3 makes more than him starting at 80k a year lol

[@shaynac3965]

that is definitely not true lmao... i went here and am an e3. the MAXIMUM amount you get extra from any other enlisted is 400 a month. thats with max scores.

[@MrSodaBelly]

Shayna C: damn yikes I guess I’ll just stick to being a civilian making $2,400 a month then

[@shaynac3965]

well if youre airborne instead of a ground linguist, you could manage to get a couple hundred extra a month on top of that. the only other thing is that if you get a language like Arabic, you can test in mulitple dialects and get more money that way, because they count as "more" languages.

[@BlindVeganRescue]

That's made up nonsense. Maybe you mean the resigning bonus which was $60k in early 2000s for cat 4 Ling.

[@benalexender3046]

Thanks from Egypt 🇪🇬

[@badpony6845]

Prior to the DLIFLC this facility was known as DLIWC, Defense Language Institute, West Coast. I attended Serbo-Croatian training there in 1968, and returned in 1971 for a Russian language course. The training I received here went beyond just learning a language. This training taught me how to effectively study, which allowed me to complete a BBA in FInance in 2 1/2 years when I went to college after my military service.

[@pep590]

Excellent Steve. You did an outstanding job!

[@loganbrion1469]

Thank you for your service Steve. You are a real patriot!

[@helho3220]

we love you steve! thank you for reminding us that we love you.

[@benjackson7872]

Well that’s good. We need more bilingual and trilingual soldiers.

[@Fit_soldier]

How do I start right now my mos is 11b but I want to change that soon

[@JinxFromArcaneShow]

Btw reporter guy is Persian too, i didn't know Persian is harder than Chinese

[@felixleottau1730]

Hello,Iam an English teacher in Cartagena Colombia,and Also I Was a teacher at the Colombian Navy for 21 Years. Now I want to be a Spanish teacher at Lack Land air forces. What should I do?

[@ohyeahyeah7394]

Felix Leottau your English really isn’t that good though

[@Mrlingual1208]

Oh Yeah Yeah I assume your native language is English and you didn’t add a period to the end of your sentence. Although, the person above you did add a period. His English is fine your English is ass.

[@Ye-tf9im]

Felix Leottau i don’t think Spanish is even a option since it’s the 2nd most common language in the US

[@miguelsobrevilla7673]

When they learn how to take an x-ray. Cool.

[@onkila4699]

what if you are fluent at the languages you are signing up for ? do they still provide you extra classes to improve the translation skills or you take classes or you don't ? you just get assigned to a duty station ? if anyone with knowledge could let me know it would be cool. I'm considering this MOS

[@em4348]

Well, having a second language is beneficial, but you actually dont get to chose your job. Depending on your ASVAB and DLAB scores, the recruiters see what mos/rate/afsc you qualify for, and what the military needs most at the time and you go from there. I would reccomend talking to EVERY branch that your recruiting office has to offer, and make a decision from there. Best of luck to you.

[@nibirue]

They won't give you a language you already know. They pick your language.

[@brian-us6vw]

Imagine being fluent in the language in demand and you get put in somewhere else Lmfao. What a waste of resources IMO.

[@cevune-8652]

You probably don't exactly need this info any more, but for anyone who stumbles upon this: It's truly pretty much random. There is some consideration, for example a lot of people who have previous dabbling in Japanese ended up in Chinese or Korean (sometimes Tagalog). Likewise, people who successfully tested proficient in Spanish before hand were put into Portuguese or French. Some people got their number one choice, while others got their number 2. Sometimes you had two guys come in at the same time, one opted for chinese and Korean (in that order) and the other opted for Korean and Chinese (in that order) and both got their Number 2 choice, on the same day. Some people came in knowing an asian language and were put in a middle eastern language. Ultimately, there's some amount of juju regarding what you know, what you want, and where they think you'll best fit... but most of the time you just take what you get and nothing really influences it at all *But* there were also dudes who grew up speaking Korean and were put into Korean. And no you don't just get assigned a duty station, or provided extra classes, you go to school for 7-8 hours a day and have the same course of instruction as if you'd never heard Korean in your life. Makes it pretty easy for those gents, but then they also may need to un-learn some things they're used to or otherwise may need to learn some niche categories they never really dealt with before the DLI.

[@proudasiangirl576]

If you are fluent in a language, they do have refresher courses, which is what I took (this was the late 80s). You also have to be in a "slot" or a "position" that requires a designated language. For example, if you are assigned to a company that has 300 soldiers and 20 of the positions require a language, and if you are assigned to a certain language for your job, then you get sent. For example, I was in a PSYOP (Psychological Operations) unit for the Army Reserve. Our area of focus was Korea. Then we have certain MOS (stands for military occupational specialty) (meaning jobs in civilian term). They pay you to go to this language school. They cover everything, room, board and study.

[@ChibiSteak]

3:46 fin.

[@risky_m]

hehehe it comes in handy being a half egyptian half afghani service member

[@TriPham-j3b]

Language in foreign military is more than conventional language just like comparing IDE and radar technology ? They are so far as the universe distance of AU " astronomical units so for bssics language is for basics enough but for code breaker it need a lifetime or more for intel specialist like IS rating

[@ysmashimaro]

Please let your guardian watch 0:06 and 1:30. I will not argue with a deaf and blind.

[@em4348]

You mean someone who wears glasses, and the traditional art of tai chi/ tai ji quan?

[@barkntaylan890]

I can speak turkish and chinese how muck money do ı get on army

[@Ye-tf9im]

Chinese Digger 3 bucks

[@n0yn0y]

Approach the US embassy and inquire about it. For the more common languages, the US military prefers instructors to have degrees. Although, the less common languages may have lower requirements and higher salaries. Turkish may be very valuable

[@pep590]

What ocean did the commentator say? Would have been hard to recognize, if we didn't know better. :)

[@curthayashida7985]

Pacific Ocean

[@pep590]

@@curthayashida7985 Right and thanks. His accent was tough to comprehend on a few words.

[@hameedsamsor7236]

Afghanistan is not country of Farsi or other tribes it's just country of pashton because USA must learn pashto

[@f00foo10]

Afghanistan is the land of BACHE BIRISH

[@powderwigwoodenteethmf5037]

Chinese isn't that hard in my opinion. Vietnamese is much harder since there are so many accents. There are Vietnamese who can't understand each other but they speak the same language. I know because I can understand most accents in Vietnamese

[@daytrader1656]

Why don't you try learning to write Chinese? Vietnamese might have harder accents but the HUGE upside is that your not having to learn Chur Nom but having to learn Quoc Ngu instead.

[@nicolezhang8116]

Chinese itself is a collection of dozens of dialects that are mostly unintelligible to each other. You tell me.

[@em4348]

There are 5 tones in the chinese language, and over 200 dialects

[@nibirue]

Chinese really isn't hard.

[@joetyler835]

@@nibirue no language is hard. They are all easy. Yup

[@prestokrs1]

It's not hard to believe. 😅 One billion people speak Chinese. Someone should learn.

[@Milkbread12]

I’m really sorry but the first guys accent made me laugh. It was like he tried to sound the most American he could while speaking another language

[@futurez12]

I know, right? A lot of Americans seem to have real problems hearing the sounds of another language, either that or, in their arrogance, they don't care. I hear the same when they speak Spanish, it's painful.

[@pep590]

He is probably pretty new in the language. Where is your critique of the narrator of the video. His foreign accent was so strong too. I guess he was trying to sound the most unamerican he could.

[@pep590]

@@futurez12 Where is your critique of the narrator of the video? His foreign accent was so strong too. I guess he was trying to ne arrogant too. Let's hear how you sound in speaking Mandarin.

[@pep590]

@Oscar Duran Thank you Oscar for your decency sir.

[@illumination101]

If ur foingbto win the war dummies, ur goingbto have to learnt their language. Mostly pashtu. To wins the hearts and minds , u must have someone on our side to speak to them.

[@powderwigwoodenteethmf5037]

How long does a course last?

[@jcfailgamer7157]

depends on the one I'm trying to get Japanese and Korean so taking both at once I'll be their over a year and finish at E-4 if you went for German you might be their 4 months.

[@powderwigwoodenteethmf5037]

+JCfailgamer Ah ok. I'm trying to go for Russian. Hopefully they will put it on my contract along with airborne, or at least one of them. Do you know if it helps you get in DLI if you already speak multiple languages? I don't if it helps for someone wanting to sign a contract as an 35M or not. How about education and training such as AEMT?

[@em4348]

Russian is a 48 week course, assuming you dont get rolled into a previous course. Knowing multiple languages helps you with your DLAB as you would know how to conjugate, but I dont think prior experience is taken into account when assigning a language.

[@em4348]

@@jcfailgamer7157 There is no way you can learn Japanese and Korean at the same time. The DLI doesnt even offer it. Korean and Japanese are EACH 64 weeks/1.2 years. I do believe you can attend multiple times at different stages in your contract, but it would be physically impossible to learn two languages fluently at the same time. German is an 8 month course.

[@proudasiangirl576]

@@em4348 Totally agreed. DLI would not offer two difficult Asian languages at once. You would be completely consumed and submerged in that language alone.

[@nibirue]

Simplified Chinese really isnt that hard. Which is what assume they teach. I'm not sure you can teach all the dialects of Chinese so they're probably teaching the simplified one.

[@joetyler835]

Simplified is the written form, there's no simplified spoken form right

[@Jakedoxey]

They learn both the traditional and simplified versions. I go to DLI btw lol

[@shaynac3965]

went to dli. they teach both. youre expected to know both

[@proudasiangirl576]

@@joetyler835 Only written simplified.

[@ysmashimaro]

I really do not think Mandarin is the most difficult language in the world. Modern Chinese grammar is much simplified than before and is very similar to English grammar. What's more, the instructor's Tai chi sucks, it is like doing gymnastics.

[@em4348]

Mandarin is a specific dialect of Chinese, with over 3,000 characters. It is pretty difficult to learn not having any previous knowledge of the language. Why dont you pass your ASVAB and DLAB, attend the school, learn Mandarin, and get back to us :)

[@pep590]

@@em4348 Lol..Boom Emma! Awesome.

[@daytrader1656]

America is a multicultural society. Why not just get Chinese Americans to have them become Chinese linguist than train a laowai from scratch? This will cut the training time. There are millions of Chinese Americans that are already bilingual.

[@alexg-m6e]

デイトレーダー They already take many Chinese Americans, but that's not enough. These people must be willing to join the military with a 8 years commitment, they must meet all the requirements (high score on the ASVAB test, must be healthy enough). And it is not only about speaking the language fluently. You must be able to translate (you can be bilingual and a very bad translator, because making a good translation requires training) and you must also be able to understand and explain the cultural context. If you lived in America your whole life, you maybe don't know a lot of things about Chinese culture, politics, government, ... even if you are fluent in Chinese. So there is still a lot to learn and being a Chinese American doesn't make you automatically fit for the job, even if it can help a lot

[@kanadetachibana370]

Day Trader not a lot of ABCs are willing to join the military

[@em4348]

This is actually what the FBI does, it is called a contract linguist. Assuming you can pass the lengthy and in depth background check, get the top secret clearance, you can become a linguist without having to join the military or become an agent.

[@brian-us6vw]

The Asian in America don't really think of USA as home country but China as home country. That becomes a conflict of interest. Also they might have over sea assets which do not put USA interest in priority. This is coming from an Asian XD. And besides why would they join military when they get top grades and a good civilian job. Just saying possible reasons.

[@proudasiangirl576]

@@kanadetachibana370 I did, 10 years in the Army!

[@wullebulle123]

how the fuck is it possible that the Afghan war started in 2001 and the soldiers are beginning to learn the language 10 years later?

[@jcfailgamer7157]

new troops you enlist for 4 years and most get out

[@z123462075]

😆speak chinese

[@FULLtiltSENDER]

Lol they are definitely not fluent tho 😅

[@pep590]

They are still students, but will be soon. Do you understand the factual definition of fluency?

[@shaynac3965]

that first guy had terrible pronunciation.

[@SuperRip7]

He didn't learn the language as a child. They waited until he was as adult.

[@shaynac3965]

@@SuperRip7 yes i know lol. i went there as well. I was just remarking that the pronunciation is still quite rough.

[@pep590]

So how long has he been in the class? Maybe a only a few weeks. Say that after he had graduated, then it means something. The narrator of this video totally mispronounced Pacific ocean and Mandarin. Where's your critique of that and he's not even a student. Lol!

[@pep590]

@@shaynac3965 So how long has he been in the class? Maybe a only a few weeks. Say that after he had graduated, then it means something. The narrator of this video totally mispronounced Pacific ocean and Mandarin. Where's your critique of that and he's not even a student. Lol!

[@Eruptor1000]

Fluent?? lmao gtfo..