ENGLISH FOR HERITAGE LANGUAGE SPEAKERS
Native speakers of critical languages are in high demand in the U.S. government. EHLS trains advanced English speakers to be effective communicators and strong candidates for federal jobs.
All EHLS participants receive a full scholarship from the National Security Education Program (NSEP) that includes tuition and a living stipend.
The 2020 EHLS Program is open to native speakers of:
Arabic | Korean | Somali |
Azerbaijani | Kurdish | Tajik |
Balochi | Kyrgyz | Tamashek |
Bambara | Mandarin | Thai |
Dari | Pashto | Turkish |
Hausa | Persian Farsi | Urdu |
Hindi | Punjabi | Uzbek |
Kazakh | Russian | Vietnamese |
The application for the 2020 program is now available at apply.iie.org/ehls.
The deadline to apply is July 5, 2019.