Expand your horizons – learn a world language with Mizzou Academy!

Welcome! We are so happy you have decided to embark on or continue your world language learning journey with Mizzou Academy. There are over 7,000 languages spoken globally. This means you have almost endless potential to learn new languages and make new connections. We’ve found the more you learn about languages, culture, and the world, the distance between people and place becomes smaller.

Learning another language is far more than gaining a few new phrases. A world language learner is someone who is studying a language beyond their home language. Truly studying language means learning about both communication and culture. As you learn new languages, you will be able to communicate with more people, build bridges, understand nuance in culture and literature, and be a more mobile global citizen.

Global citizenship is the idea that all human beings are interconnected as members of a world community who share space, experience, and common bonds. At Mizzou Academy, we have students from over 40 different countries of origin. We commend you on your interest in world languages,  and we would be thrilled to count you among our global learning community.

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Language Options

Our World Language courses begin the first of each month.

Prerequisites: Our World Language courses must be taken in sequential order. For example, you must take Spanish 1A before proceeding to Spanish 1B. If you are unsure of which level to enroll in, please work with our counselor to review transfer credits and other factors that might influence which course you take.

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Options with Live Tutoring Sessions

Partnership with Rosetta Stone Education

Through an exciting partnership with Rosetta Stone Education, we are able to offer 21 World Languages with the following features:

• Immersive environment: Students will spend all their time on the course immersed in the target language, so they will get used to interacting within the focus language and using it. Students  acquire the structures by modeling real communicative situations.
• Self-paced courses: Mizzou Academy suggests a weekly course load to finish in 20 weeks, but students can tweak this schedule to fit their own pace and schedule and finish earlier.
• Scaffolding: Our content is structured in a way that what students learn, prepares them for the next lesson. Progress is built on solid ground.
• Practice: Rosetta Stone’s speech recognition tool enables students to practice their pronunciation in a stress-free context. In some of our courses, students also have the opportunity to interact with native speaking tutors.
• Mobile-friendly: Students can either work on a laptop or desktop, and also through a mobile app. 
• Trusted approach: Mizzou Academy and Rosetta Stone Education have been used by thousands of learners around the world as a trusted resource to expand and deepen language learning.

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Latin Studies

In addition to the World Languages options above, we also offer four levels of Latin. These courses were developed in-house by our talented faculty. 

Studying Latin is a meaningful scholarly pursuit. Below are four highlights among many more to study Latin.

• Latin is a rich, layered language that can be a joy to study.
• Latin helps improve English vocabulary and comprehension, as close to 2/3 of English words are derived from Latin.
• Scholars in medicine, law, and the sciences have all cited benefits to studying Latin.
• Latin undergirds the Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, etc.

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World Languages Course Options

World Language

American English 1A American English 1B American English 2A American English 2B American English 3A American English 3B American English 4A American English 4B Arabic 1A Arabic 1B Arabic 2A Arabic 2B Dutch 1A Dutch 1B Dutch 2A Dutch 2B Filipino (Tagalog) 1A Filipino (Tagalog) 1B Filipino (Tagalog) 2A Filipino (Tagalog) 2B French 1A French 1B French 2A French 2B French 3A French 3B French 4A French 4B German 1A German 1B German 2A German 2B German 3A German 3B German 4A German 4B Greek 1A Greek 1B Greek 2A Greek 2B Hebrew 1A Hebrew 1B Hebrew 2A Hebrew 2B Hindi 1A Hindi 1B Hindi 2A Hindi 2B Irish 1A Irish 1B Irish 2A Irish 2B Italian 1A Italian 1B Italian 2A Italian 2B Italian 3A Italian 3B Italian 4A Italian 4B Japanese 1A Japanese 1B Japanese 2A Japanese 2B Korean 1A Korean 1B Korean 2A Korean 2B Latin 1A* Latin 1B* Latin 2A* Latin 2B* Mandarin Chinese 1A Mandarin Chinese 1B Mandarin Chinese 2A Mandarin Chinese 2B Mandarin Chinese 3A Mandarin Chinese 3B Mandarin Chinese 4A Mandarin Chinese 4B Persian (Farsi) 1A Persian (Farsi) 1B Persian (Farsi) 2A Persian (Farsi) 2B Polish 1A Polish 1B Polish 2A Polish 2B Portuguese 1A Portuguese 1B Portuguese 2A Portuguese 2B Russian 1A Russian 1B Russian 2A Russian 2B Russian 3A Russian 3B Russian 4A Russian 4B Spanish 1A Spanish 1B Spanish 2A Spanish 2B Spanish 3A Spanish 3B Spanish 4A Spanish 4B Turkish 1A Turkish 1B Turkish 2A Turkish 2B Vietnamese 1A Vietnamese 1B Vietnamese 2A Vietnamese 2B