Center for Languages, Cultures, & Regional Studies (CLCRS)

We asked Dr. Chouairi, head of the Arabic Department how to say Beat Navy in Arabic. #GoArmy #BEATnavy #USMA #__

#TBT Every year in September, NYC hosts its annual Steuben Parade. West Point Cadets from the #German Forum along with Lieutenants from the German Armed Forces ...Universities and the Thersian Military Academy in Austria typically march in this parade to support German-American relations. This year’s parade was moved to a virtual event due to COVID-19, so check out the photo below to see the West Point, German, and Austrian team before the 2019 Steuben Parade. See more

One of our many outstanding West Point Department of Foreign Languages capstone projects in the works. Looking forward to Projects Day 2021 in April!

Faculty Friday: #Portuguese Our Brazilian Exchange Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Andre Luiz Melo Franco instructs Portuguese at #USMA. LTC Melo Franco graduate...d from the Brazilian Army Military Academy at Agulhas Negras - Brazil in 1999 and entered the #Infantry Branch. As a Lieutenant, he served as a platoon leader, a Military Police platoon leader and as an instructor of the Basic Course in the Brazilian Army Military Academy. In 2005, he graduated in Strategic Management of Human Resources in the Rio de Janeiro Federal Rural University. After completing the Captain’s Career Course in 2007, then-Captain Melo Franco was assigned to the 34th Jungle Infantry Battalion, where he started his contact with the Brazilian Amazon. In 2009, Captain Melo Franco was assigned to the United States Mission for the Referendum at Western Sahara (MINURSO), where he acted as a Military Observer and as the Mine Action Coordination Center Operations Officer. In 2011-2012, he was assigned once more for the Military Academy, where he acted as a Company Tactical Officer and as the Advanced Course Operation’s Officer. In 2013-2014, the then promoted Major Melo Franco went back to the Brazilian Amazon, at that time assigned as the Headquarter Company’s Commander of the 17th Jungle Infantry Brigade. In 2015-2016, he attended the Brazilian Army Staff Course and, following the completion, he was assigned as the Operation’s Officer at the Amazon Military Command Operation’s Coordination Center. Lieutenant Colonel Melo Franco awards and decorations include: Reconnaissance Platoon Badge, Jungle Operation’s Planning Badge, Victory Medal, Medal of the Peacemaker, Brazilian Army Service Medal, Two Crown Marshall Hermes Medal, United Nations Service Medal (MINURSO), Brazilian Amazon Service Medal and others international decorations.

May 2019: Rockstar cadets brief Dean of the Academic Board-West Point in our favorite West Point Department of Geography & Environmental Engineering auditorium after returning from West Point Department of Foreign Languages Semester Abroad! #tbt #opentheworld

"Hail Alma Mater dear! To us, be ever near..." #OnThisDay Nov. 19, 1911, the West Point Alma Mater was sung before the Army-Navy Game of 1911 for the first tim...e in the (new) Cadet Chapel. In 1908, Cadet Paul Reinecke, Class of 1911, was walking the area as a yearling and, attempting to pass the time, began writing a furlough song to the tune of Treue Liebe, an old German folk song composed by Friedrich Kuecken in 1827. It was a tradition at the time to sing furlough songs at Battle Monument when firsties were away from the Academy. Although it was sung at the 1909 Graduation Hop, Reinecke’s song faded away until the 1911 Army-Navy Game, and it was subsequently sung at the Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 1912, earning its place in the hearts of all West Point Graduates thereafter. Today, the Alma Mater is sung at all major West Point events, including Awards ceremonies, Founders Days and of course at every West Point Football game, where the victor's alma mater is played last. Listen to one of our favorite renditions of the West Point "Alma Mater," entitled "Sing Second"--performed by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Gaynor and the West Point Glee Club at the Cadet Chapel - filmed at West Point by then-CDT Austin LaChance '17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTKWdoJClhA #OTD #SingSecond