Online Language Training for AF Officers

Air University officials are offering active-duty company grade officers an opportunity to study a foreign language online at no cost. The university maintains a curriculum of 28 foreign languages through the Rosetta Stone Online Language Learning Center. Squadron Officer College, the Air University college for development of lieutenants and captains, is making all of its 920 licenses available servicewide. Company grade officers can either learn a new language or brush up on an existing one. Students will have up to one year to complete a course. To apply, officers must first receive permission from their supervisor, then go to the Squadron Officer College Web site and click on the Rosetta Stone link. Once there, register for the course and submit the Defense Language Institute language assessment survey. Students will then receive log-in information via e-mail. The site is at at http://soc.maxwell.af.mil/soc_dirs.htm.