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  • 17th TRW Member of the Month: Tech. Sgt. Jayson Franklin

    The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at Presidio of Monterey is responsible for training all Department of Defense linguists. The school provides courses for 14 languages with training ranging from 36 to 64 weeks.

  • Student becomes the teacher

    Sixty-four weeks or 2,240 hours of schoolwork is the average length of the Chinese mandarin class at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center on the Presidio of Monterey, California.

  • Learning languages virtually

    Geographically detached from Goodfellow Air Force Base is the 517th Training Group. This group is responsible for training Airmen as linguists and also developing Airmen’s skills and core values.

  • Planning for the future of learning

    Presidio of Monterey, Calif. is taking the initiative with the Foreign Language Design Sprint and digging deeper into the science of learning to help improve the way their students learn.