Foreign Languages

Centers and Programs

• Center for Interpretation and Translation Studies (CITS)
• Center for Second Language Research (CSLR)
• Charlene Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole and Dialect Studies
• College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature (LLL)
  • Dept. of Second Language Studies (SLS)
• Confucius Institute
• Hawai'i English Language Program (HELP)
• English Language Institute (ELI)
• Korean Language Flagship Center
• Language Documentation Training Center
• Language Learning Center (LLC)
• National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
• Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center

Some of UHM's diverse language options are shown below, but these are not exhaustive lists.

• East Asian Languages
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korea

• Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures
  • Arabic
  • Cambodian
  • Chamorro
  • Filipino
  • Ilokano
  • Maori
  • Indonesian
  • Hindi
  • Samoan
  • Sanskrit
  • Tahitian
  • Thai
  • Tongan
  • Vietnames

• Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas
  • Classics: Greek/Latin
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
  • Spanish