The Language Maintenance Tutorials are designed primarily to meet the needs of Columbia's graduate and professional school students. We offer conversation groups and individual tutorials with instruction focused on everyday spoken language at very competitive fees. Courses are designed to provide students with prior language proficiency the opportunity to maintain and advance their language skills. The tutorials are led by trained Columbia graduate students. The tutorials generally meet once per week for 10 weeks during the semester.

Please note these non-credit courses cannot be used to meet the language requirement nor can they substitute for regularly offered credit courses.

Registration for Fall 08  will be open from August 22nd to September 16th.

For highly requested languages (Arabic, English and Spanish) we recommend that you register as soon as possible
 

We offer tutorials* in the following languages:

Arabic**, Bengali, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Georgian, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Uzbek, Wolof, Zulu
 

*A minimum of two years of language education at college level is required for all the languages.
**Instruction is in MSA, but we can also try to find tutors for specific dialects. However, this is not always possible.

For other languages, more information about the program or advisement with respect to placement, please contact Pilar Valencia