Training MIT Students To Become Global Citizens

This project will create a Very Fast Track (VFT) in Chinese and Japanese that will compress into as little as six months what now takes two years of language training. Prof. Miyagawa will do so by tapping the best of MIT's engineering, neuroscience, and educational technology expertise. The VFT will allow students to fulfill MISTI's language requirement, making it possible for them to go abroad as interns as early as after their freshman year instead of having to wait until their sophomore or junior year. Many of the VFT students will go on to study more language and attain fluency unimaginable in the present program. The applications developed with CSAIL and others will also be applicable to several languages.