Good study abroad programs...perferrably in Midwest

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<p>And perferrably from an LAC. Any schools come to mind?</p>

<p>More than anything, I want to go abroad; I'm fascinated by language and culture. I would like to study anthropology.</p>

<p>If I'm going to a place for language, I would want to be submersed in it.....not surrounded by all Americans, no offense to them. I lived with a host family for 1.5 weeks this summer in Spain, and I survived. :)</p>

<p>I really want to meet people. From all over. Make friends? Like Africa and the Middle East. South America may be more appropriate for Spanish, however.</p>

<p>I would also like to study in the UK at some ancient uni. Who wouldn't?</p>

<p>And $. hahahah. Um.....aid would have to be generous, especially if I want to go more than one place.....which I do. :)</p>

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<p>So you are wanting to study either in Africa or the Middle East?</p>

<p>Have you looked into CIEE? Checkout Amideast as well…</p>

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<p>Yeah, I think it would be really cool to study in somewhere like Iraq or Afghanistan, and a country in Africa. My only problem would be the language barrier, unless there are populations that speak Spanish (like in Morrocco).</p>

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<p>You are going to an extremely difficult time finding anyone (including your school) to allow you to study in Iraq or Afghanistan - especially if you plan on using financial aid. With that being said, there are MANY countries in North Africa and the Middle East that you could study in such as; Jordan, Israel, Oman, UAE, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudia Arabia, Egypt, Lebannon(depending on political situation), Syria (again, depending on political situation).</p>

<p>Are you interested in learning the language of the country where you want to study?</p>

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<p>possibly…I definitely want to learn more languages</p>

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<p>Check out CIEE. They have a few programs in the middle east and N. africa (Jordan, Egypt)</p>

<p>Also you can direct enroll in universities in the middle east and africa, so speak with your study abroad dept.</p>

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<p>Spanish is not widely spoken in Morocco.</p>

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<p>Oberlin comes to mind off the top of my head, but my advice is not to look for specific study abroad programs at a specific school, but instead check to see if the LACs you’re looking at will allow you to petition for outside programs that are not already “pre-approved” so to speak. Otherwise, many LACs have partnerships with programs like CIEE or SIT that actually administer the abroad programs. </p>

<p>And, seconding the above comment, Morocco is mostly Arabic & French.</p>

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<p>I’ve been reading on the internet that Arabic wouldn’t be very useful because there are so many dialects…and French would be more useful…true?</p>

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<p>There aren’t many ‘dialects’ of Arabic, there are many Arabic languages.</p>

<p>What you are saying is like saying that Spanish and French are ‘dialects’ of Latin.</p>

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<p>No I don’t agree keepittoyourself, there is only one Arabic language but it has many dialects. A different dialect does not mean it’s a different language, after all many European languages are just as fragmented - especially German which is completely different in Bavaria to the spoken German you will hear in the north.</p>

<p>In college you will learn MSA (Modern Standard Arabic), which is used for writing and news channels. It will take years of further study to understand one of the dialects, if you’re not prepared to do that then don’t bother with Arabic.</p>

<p>The major dialects: Maghrebi Arabic (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), Egyptian Arabic (Egypt and Libya), Gulf Arabic (Saudi, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Qatar), Levantine Arabic (Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon) and Iraqi Arabic.</p>

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<p>For an example of a dialect, would that be like Castilian and Catalan?</p>

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<p>I have to disagree with you here - the different Arabic languages/dialects are mutually unintelligible, which might be enough to push them into different languages rather than different dialects. The people from different areas of Germany can converse much more easily than can people from Iraq and Algeria. </p>

<p>I see your point about MSA, but it just seems to be serving as a rather presitigous lingua franca.</p>

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<p>Michigan State University has a huge study abroad program. I know it isn’t an LAC, but they do have something called RCAH, Residential College for the Arts and Humanities, which tries to model a small liberal arts college.</p>

<p>Anyway, MSU has over 400 study abroad programs covering almost every country in the world. If there is significant political unrest in a country, I know they do temporarily cancel programs, such as Egypt this past fall. As far as financial aid goes, there are tons of scholarships available both before you go and when you return. I recently studied abroad for a semester and only had to pay for my plane ticket and food.</p>

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<p>Sorry, have to jump in - Castilian and Catalan are distinct languages. Even though the line between a dialect and a language is very unclear, no one who has studied either imagines they are dialects of each other. Valenci</p>

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<p>Carleton College! About 70% of students study abroad at some point in their college career.
And their financial aid package is great! If you get financial aid, you can apply it towards study abroad.</p>

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<p>^ I didn’t apply to Carleton. :frowning: I wouldn’t have gotten in haha.</p>