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DLI Lingo
by DLIFLC
DLIFLC is a multi-service, foreign language school for DoD members, foreign military students, and civilians working in the federal government and various law enforcement agencies. In our podcasts, you'll get to hear the experiences of DLIFLC graduates and faculty who have traveled the world with their language skills as behind-the-scene witnesses to history while it was unfolding.
Episodes
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Getting to know your students
Much of the student experience here is shrouded in mystery, largely because of the unique nature of DLIFLC. Institutions that focus entirely on language are few and far between, let alone a military language institute that teaches to a high level of proficiency. The pace is rapid, the intensity...
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Getting to know your FAOs
Foreign Area Officers comprise less than 5% of the student body at DLIFLC in Monterey. Each branch of the military has a different pathway to get their FAOs qualified for service and each member has a unique story to tell. Listen in as four student officers share their experiences.
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Getting to know your MLIs
Military Language instructors are a special breed. Bringing them together often involves raucous fun and joking. This episode of Getting to know DLIFLC is no different.
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Getting to know your instructors
With 1,800 instructors who come from 93 different countries, DLIFLC can feel like working at the United Nations. This is your chance to get to know three of them in this episode of Getting to know DLIFLC.
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Getting to know your leaders
There's been a lot of turnover in the front office over the last year. Here is your chance to get to know DLIFLC's newest command group in this conversational podcast that takes you from books vs movies to worst jobs, bell-bottoms and floppy disks.
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Resiliency: Learning To Fail
One of the most important aspects of resiliency when you are hit with curveballs in life is being able to get back up and keep moving. It’s not an easy habit to develop in this technologically advanced world, when it seems like the only effort involves a three-minute musical montage in a movie or...
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Resiliency: Taking Care of Yourself
In a world where big ideals like “mission” and “battle buddy” are your career, it is a challenge to take time for yourself. That thought might even be accompanied by guilt, because the core values of your branch simply don’t mention self-care in the list of priorities. But as the saying goes, you...
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Resiliency: Building Community
Science tells us that community, or positive relationships, helps get us through when times are tough. But what does that look like? The Marine Corps Detachment senior enlisted leader, Master Gunnery Sgt. Willy Pascua, has some great insights into how his Marines have weathered the pandemic. He...
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Resiliency: Courage In The Arena
Coming out of 2020, resiliency is THE buzzword. But what does it mean? And more importantly, how can you apply it when your world has gone crazy? Courage in the Arena, the first in a series of four episodes, explores how one former DLIFLC student developed grit and determination to make it…
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A Hero's Journey: Instructor Edition - Tehran, Iran
There's an old Czech proverb that says, “Those who know many languages live as many lives as the languages they know." Our instructors embody that proverb, none more than Persian Farsi faculty Ali Ghassemi. Listen to his story in our final podcast of the series, "A Hero's Journey: Instructor...
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A Hero's Journey: Instructor Edition - Madrid, Spain
Sometimes learning a new language comes down to what motivates you. For Spanish instructor Lucia Artacho, it was, as she describes it, "dancy" music that helped her.
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A Hero's Journey: Instructor Edition - Shaanxi Province, China
The effects of poverty on education are well-documented. But because education is one of the few ways out of poverty, it leads to a cycle that is difficult to break. For Edward Wang, a Chinese Mandarin instructor at DLIFLC, it was one he knew well, thanks to the extremely poor and rural area…
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A Hero's Journey: Instructor Edition - Baghdad, Iraq
Baghdad wasn't always a war-torn city. To hear native-born Atoor Lawandow tell it, the Iraqi city is the center of the world. For more about Baghdad and how Atoor's journey brought her to Monterey, listen to the latest episode in our podcast, DLIFLC Lingo.
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A Hero's Journey: Instructor Edition - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Kamola Umarova was born and raised in Uzbekistan, speaking both Uzbek and Russian with her family. A former Army linguist herself, Kamola talks about life before and after the Soviet Union, and what brought her to DLIFLC.
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A Hero's Journey: Instructor Edition - Seoul, Korea
Curtis Powell is part of the 5% of instructors at DLIFLC who aren't native speakers. That means Curtis is so good at his second language that he can teach others to speak it at a high proficiency. From Maryland to Seoul, South Korea to DLIFLC, listen as Curtis tells his story.
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A Hero's Journey: Instructor Edition - Basra, Iraq
In 1985, Lana Al Mudhaffar and her family moved from the peace of northern England to a war zone in Basra, Iraq. Over 30 years later, Lana shares her experiences living in Iraq and the journey that led her to DLIFLC.
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Special podcast: 30th Anniversary of the Romanian Revolution
30 years ago this December, Ceausescu's brutal regime abruptly ended in a public execution. Two-time DLIFLC graduate Branko Marinovich was a foreign area officer with the embassy at the time of revolution.
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Oh the Place you Can Go (with DLI) - The Iranian hostage crisis Part 2
When the Navy called for a Persian Farsi linguist to deploy to the Persian Gulf and cover the Iranian revolution in late 1979, the only options Tom Chesno had to offer were three Airmen who had just finished their schooling. This is their story.
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Oh the Places you Can Go (With DLI) - The Iranian hostage crisis Part 1
On the outset of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/1979, there were only a few Persian Farsi military linguists ready to jump into action. Michael Ruhm, Michael Sherman and Don Huntington, recent graduates of Persian Farsi, were working for Tom Chesno, when the embassy hostage crisis began.
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Oh the Places you Can Go (with DLI) - From Army Ranger to teacher
As if it being a military linguist wasn't challenge enough, Sgt. First Class Matthew Peterson took it a step further by becoming an Army Ranger. Now he's back at DLIFLC for a third round, this time as a Military Language Instructor, passing on his Pashto knowledge and experiences in Afghanistan.
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Oh the Places you Can Go (with DLI) - Brushes in history with the Soviet Union
John Sullivan served 4 years in the Army as a Russian linguist in the late 70s and early 80s, a time when the Soviet Union was alive and well and very active. Some of the historical events John brushed up against back then still reverberate today.
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Oh the Places you Can Go (with DLI) - Reunited: A Podumentary
Jerry Spivey and Vinnie Zinck began their Army careers during the Vietnam era. Back then, the draft was alive and well, their unofficial title was "lingies," and Asian languages were a hot commodity. This is their podumentary.
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Oh the Places you Can Go (with DLI) - The Berlin Wall Story
Henry Klaput didn't start his military career with plans to become a linguist. It wasn't until 1961 that Henry found himself stationed in Berlin, freshly graduated from DLIFLC. Here is one man's account of life as a Russian interpreter at Checkpoint Charlie when the Wall went up.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
DLIFLC is a multi-service, foreign language school for DoD members, foreign military students, and civilians working in the federal government and various law enforcement agencies. In our podcasts, you'll get to hear the experiences of DLIFLC graduates and faculty who have traveled the world with their language skills as behind-the-scene witnesses to history while it was unfolding.
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