<p>After much thought and discussion I've decided that I want to study foreign languages. I was wondering if there is any school which specifies in foreign languages or at least what are some school that have good foreign language departments? May of the schools I've read about just have a department but not a very impressive one. Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>There are a ton of schools with great language programs, so it depends on whether you're looking for big/small, where in the country (or out of it), what kind of environment you're looking for, how good your grades are, etc. But if you have a solid GPA/test scores and are looking for a LAC, Middlebury has a particularly renowned reputation for fantastic language departments.</p>
<p>Since you say you are interested in "languages," you might like the Three Languages major at the University of Delaware. I think that all large state universities offer a wide variety of foreign languages but I think the Three Languages major is unique (and interesting!)
Foreign</a> Languages & Literatures: French Studies, German Studies, Italian Studies, Russian Studies, Spanish Studies, and Three Languages
Delaware has courses in Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Greek...</p>
<p>I'd suggest picking a language you want to learn and going to a country that speaks it for school. If you are not already fluent in a language, your prospects with a major in a foreign language are pretty dim. Do you know what you want to do with your language skills? Multilingual skills are certainly in demand in many places, but you really need either native fluency in the second (and third, fourth, etc.) language or some other strong selling point in order for your language skills to be valuable to an employer. I believe that in most fields an employer would greatly prefer someone with knowledge and skills in his particular field (or related fields) and 60-80% fluency (which, for many languages, can be attained in about 3-12 months in country with some work and language classes during the trip) than someone with 90-100% fluency and a few additional years of grammar and culture classes (which the person of 3-12 months probably learned while over there anyway).</p>
<p>What type of languages are you interested in studying? Asian? Slavic?</p>
<p>A lot of smaller LACs have strong language programs. I specifically chose my college, Wellesley, because I felt they had a strong language program. Now I'm studying Japanese and Russian. </p>
<p>The best way to really learn a language is to immerse yourself in it. Look at schools that have good study abroad programs, or consider a school overseas.</p>
<p>Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, MI. I think everyone is required to study abroad there and it would have been my top choice if I was going into foreign languages or another international based program. It's a small, pretty college and well respected in Michigan.</p>
<p>Georgetown has a strong language program</p>
<p>Middlebury is supposed to be good for languages.</p>
<p>Dartmouth has a unique/good language program.</p>
<p>You can pretty much go anywhere. State flagships would be great for this. Just make sure that they have the languages you're interested in. Studying 2 languages, with study abroads in each would be fun. I don't think it would be that great in getting you a job, but it would be damn fun.</p>
<p>Kalamazoo, a LAC in Michigan, has about 80-90% of its undegrads spend time abroad. Since immersion really helps in achieving fluency, you might want to look at this school.</p>