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.
Language Options
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Dutch
- Filipino
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Persian (Farsi)
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
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.
Options with Live Tutoring Sessions
- Arabic
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- English (American)
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish (Latin America)
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.