<p>Does anyone have any experience in taking languages that aren't offered at Georgetown? I know they have a system to take classes at other local universities, but is it actually used? If anyone has any experiences, I would greatly appreciate it.</p>
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<p>What langauages do you want to take that aren't offered at Georgetown? I can't think of many that aren't. We do have a consortium agreement with the other DC schools (American, GW, Howard, Catholic, maybe a few others too), but I don't know that any of them offer languages that Georgetown doesn't. We have: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque, German, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Polish, Ukranian, Hebrew, Latin, Greek (ancient and modern), Hindi, Swahili, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Farsi(Persian), and Sanskrit. I'm probably forgetting a few also. I'm curious...out of all of those, what do you want to take that's not offered?</p>
<p>I personally would have loved to take Dutch or a Scandinavian language (which were offered at my other possible school choice). But obviously nothing could beat Georgetown's international/language programs in general, so it won out :)</p>
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<p>I remember reading a story in the Hoya about someone who took American Sign Language at Gallaudet and that was her foreign language. I think she also picked up French Sign Language too.</p>
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<p>Is Modern Greek offered at Georgetown?</p>
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<p>Niomi: Where were Scandinavian languages offered?</p>
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<p>Alhambra, UCLA has them</p>
<p>And Jonathan1, yes, there is modern Greek at Georgetown</p>
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<p>People use the Consortium all the time. It's not uncommon to see Georgetown students taking courses at GW, for instance, or to see AU kids in GU classrooms.</p>
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<p>For your entertainment, to Alhambra and Niomi, who seem interested in Scandinavian Languages -</p>
<p>They have Scandinavian languages at Concordia College in Moorhead Minnesota. Three years of Norwegian plus Danish and Swedish as requested by students.
<a href="http://www.cord.edu/dept/scandstudies/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cord.edu/dept/scandstudies/</a></p>
<p>University of Minnesota has Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish in the GSD department. And modern Icelandic!
<a href="http://www.gsd.umn.edu/programs.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.gsd.umn.edu/programs.php</a></p>
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<p>Georgetown doesn't offer Pashto (an Afghan language).</p>
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<p>GU doesn't have American Sign Language, but I didn't really want to cntinue that one anyway. :D</p>
<p>Wow. I know this thread is really, really old, but I have a question about this. I know Galludet is the famed deaf university in DC. Is that part of the consortium if I ever DID want to continue ASL?</p>
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<p>Yes. It is. Read dzleprechaun's post above.</p>
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<p>Actually, I'm in charge of the undergrad linguistics society, and we're trying to get ASL classes for the fall. There are a few linguistics grad students who are studying ASL, so we're trying to convince them to start up a class as an elective in the fall. It's such a pain to travel all the way to Gallaudet (it's pretty far away), but people do do it. I will keep you posted and let you know if we're successful!</p>
<p>Also, GW offers a bunch of free weekly language class at night, in all kinds of less popular languages, as well as some of the embassies, and Georgetown just stared up a Tagalog class!</p>
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