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Learning Dutch is more than just learning a language—it opens a window to the creative, ethical, and moral debates of our times. While the US debates gay marriage, legalization of drugs, prostitution, terminal care, pension, and healthcare reform.

Germany is Europe’s strongest economy and plays a central role in current issues such as the environment, migration, and 21st-century globalization. A major force in international business, engineering, and science, it is a leader in innovation and creativity.

Finnish is spoken by over five million people in Finland and is one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages spoken in Europe. It’s a member of the Uralic language family, closely related to Estonian and very distantly to Hungarian.

Norway is the best place to live in the world when it comes to life expectancy, education, and income. A vibrant, multicultural society and one of the most democratic countries in the world, Norway is also one of the happiest places. Not only is it safe, but it also has breathtaking nature.

The Swedish language, which has nearly 10 million speakers, helps you communicate with people in Sweden and inhabitants from throughout the Scandinavian countries of Norway and Denmark, Swedish-speaking Finland, and islands in the Baltic Sea, like Åland.

Russian is the native language of some 150 million citizens of the Russian Federal Republic, and of a very large population of emigres in other countries around the world, including the United States. It is one of the five official languages of the United Nations and ranks with English, Chinese.

You’ll start with classical Attic Greek, the dialect spoken and written in Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries BC: a language of tragedy, comedy, oratory, history, and philosophy. With a knowledge of the basic grammar and vocabulary of Attic, you can later go on to read the epics.

Latin, the language of the ancient Romans, has served as a means of communication for well over 2,000 years. It was not only one of the two chief languages of one of the world’s major civilizations. But also an international language for centuries after Rome’s fall: a language of science, reli...