What is the definition of CRITICAL LANGUAGES?

Critical Languages

Why study CRITICAL WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES?

Why study Urdu?

http://urducouncil.nic.in/education/index_list.htm

http://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/content/uw_students/2005_PDFs/2005%20-%20Urdu.pdf

Why Study Farsi?

http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=8503

Why study Swahili?

http://www.glcom.com/hassan/

Swahili Language is Crucial

Why study Chinese?

1.www.chinesechildren.org/Newsletter%5CWindow%20to%20China/WTC_01_2006.pdf

2.www.clarktranslations.com/about_chinese.htm

3.www.asiasociety.org/pressroom/edu-chinese_language.html

4.searchwarp.com/swa320096.htm

5.www.buzzle.com/articles/the-importance-of-knowing-the-chinese-language.html

6.www.unimelb.edu.au/HB/areas/ACHINES.html

• Links to help practice Chinese
  
  1.www.learn-chinese-language-online.com/
  
  2.www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm
  
  3.www.chinapage.com/learnchinese.html
  
  4.www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html
  
  5.www.mandarintools.com/
  
  6.www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/
  
  7.www.zhongwen.com/
  
  8.acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinlng2.html
  
  9.www.chinavista.com/experience/fable/fable.html
  
  10.www.wellesley.edu/Chinese/Chinese-Fables/title/title_page.html

SCHOLARSHIPS and FUNDING AVAILABLE

us.fulbrightonline.org/documents/fulbright_language.doc

http://uah-globalstudies.blogspot.com/2008/10/critical-languages-scholarship-program.html

http://www.kennesaw.edu/foreignlanguage/critical.html

http://www.baylor.edu/pr/news.php?action=story&story=51020

http://www.carla.umn.edu/articulation/critlang.html

http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/wlc/critcourses.htm

http://www.tfla.info/advocacy/Critical_languages_grants.pdf

Critical Languages (from www.temple.edu)

http://www.topix.com/city/denton-tx/2008/05/unt-junior-to-study-arabic-in-tunisia-this-summer-on-critical-language-scholarship

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/dec/22/schools.secondaryschools

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/funding-review.html