DLIFLC News
Resiliency: no longer a one-size-fits-all solution
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center has faculty and staff from 93 different countries, a wide mix that brings with it a variety of cultures with unique characteristics and habits. Throw in the U.S. military staff and students, which has its own brand of idiosyncrasies, and you get a ... Read More
Neuroscience and memory: simple methods for a complex problem
Every instructor since the beginning of time has asked how they can help their students understand and remember the material ... Read More
Veterans Day ceremony held at Presidio
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held a Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 7, on the Presidio of Monterey ... Read More
DLIFLC graduate returns to talk languages with Human Intelligence students
The majority of the students at DLIFLC are linguists. Their job is to be involved in language every day ... Read More
Air Force takes a novel approach to cryptolinguist training
Language training at DLIFLC has seen a sea of change, none stronger than the Air Force’s Linguist Next program ... Read More
HMX-1 gets a little help from the language community
HMX-1’s mission is to fly the President, the Vice President and other VIPs on short-range flights. Those flights can happen ... Read More
Surviving World War II as a polyglot
Tadeusz Haska’s story reads like a movie straight out of Hollywood. Between his parent’s early deaths, his experiences in World ... Read More
Entire Levantine class aces final exam
“I feel sometimes that the benefit that technology provides is not utilized,” said Ayman Alqasem, a Levantine Arabic instructor at ... Read More
Naturalization Ceremony at DLIFLC
“The American language and the accent were very different from what I had learned at school,” said DLIFLC Associate Professor ... Read More
Record attendance at CLPM workshop
More than 250 members of all four branches of the services and Department of Defense civilians attended a three-day Advanced ... Read More
Marines’ holistic approach improves graduation rate
The holy grail of any big company is numbers. It’s a matter of practicality. The best outcome happens when numbers ... Read More
IWTC Monterey Dedicates Navy Yard to Senior Chief Shannon Kent
Information Warfare Training Command Monterey dedicated its command training stage area in honor of Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon ... Read More
Warrior, Linguist, Ranger, Educator
Peterson’s determination to do something different with his life led him to work with the 75th Ranger Regiment ... Read More
From Myanmar to Monterey; CLD gets new director
“We want to make it easier for people to take initiative for their own professional development. If people want to ... Read More
Linguist at the Berlin Wall: Henry Klaput’s podcast story
After graduation in 1960, Henry was stationed in Berlin. He wasn’t sure he would get the chance to use his ... Read More
Air Force steps up recruiting linguists
“The Air Force linguist corps has some unique challenges,” said Trefflich, chief military language instructor at the Korean schoolhouse, and ... Read More
DLIFLC gains new assistant commandant
Air Force Col. Stephanie R. Kelley accepted responsibility as the assistant commandant of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center ... Read More
