<p>I’m going to be a first year next year and would like to take a new foreign language. I’d like to study Turkish, but I recently realized Brown doesn’t offer it. I found a page on the Center for Language Studies website briefly mentioning [Independent</a> Language Studies](<a href=“http://www.brown.edu/Departments/CLS/about/independent.html]Independent”>http://www.brown.edu/Departments/CLS/about/independent.html), but it’s pretty vague.</p>
<p>Could anyone describe what an independent language study usually involves?</p>
<p>Finding someone to teach you and getting a few people interested to start a GISP.</p>
<p>Only out of curiosity Jack, why Turkish? It’s an interesting region, especially from a geopolitical standpoint, but it’s seldom that I see someone who wants to learn it as their foreign language of choice at college (which in turn leads to few schools teaching it, as you see with Brown). Is there any reason specific to your life that you chose Turkish or is it purely out of curiosity?</p>
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Even better would be learning it through the CLS program. What beats learning Turkish in Turkey for free?</p>
<p>[Critical</a> Language Scholarship Program](<a href=“http://www.clscholarship.org/]Critical”>http://www.clscholarship.org/)</p>
<p>@jackbenimble4:
same here! except in Amharic, which most people rarely even know about…
good luck to you!</p>