HMX-1 gets a little help from the language community

HMX-1 gets a little help from the language community

By Tammy Cario If linguists are the unsung heroes of the intelligence world, then language managers are the support that keeps them going. Command Language Program Managers are responsible for linguists once they arrive at their new station. They help the linguists to...
Surviving World War II as a polyglot

Surviving World War II as a polyglot

By Tammy Cario Tadeusz Haska’s story reads like a movie straight out of Hollywood. Between his parents’ early deaths, his experiences in World War II Poland and the harrowing escapes he endured, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center instructor’s...
Entire Levantine class aces final exam

Entire Levantine class aces final exam

By Tammy Cario Modern Standard Arabic, considered written standard for language across the Middle East, could be compared to the Queen’s English. When the students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center learn Arabic, they begin with MSA and then go...