Testimonials

From Immersion to Graduate, Meet Determined Italian School Student, Amalia Mahoney

agjackson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-10T09:00:00-0500

For Florida native Amalia Mahoney, the complete immersion environment that our program offered was key. After completing an immersion summer at Level 2, the support and reassurance of Italian School faculty and staff gave her the confidence to keep studying and take on the graduate program.

Middlebury Language Schools: A Summer Experience Like No Other

Patrick Culver — 2025-11-04T09:00:00-0500

Incumbent Gold Ancient Mariner, Capt. Patrick Culver retired in 2023. His next adventure? Our 7-week School of Spanish.

Meet 8-week Russian Immersion Student: Maxwell Goodman

agjackson@middlebury.edu — 2025-09-29T09:00:00-0400

As a historian, violinist, and someone with Belarusian roots, Max Goodman’s choice to attend the Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian felt personal. He was already deeply invested in Russian culture and history, and Middlebury uniquely combined that motivation with the academic structure and immersive intensity he needed to grow.

Meet 8-week Chinese Immersion Student: Mark Roose

agjackson@middlebury.edu — 2025-09-08T09:30:00-0400

For level-1 Chinese immersion student Mark Roose, our instructors’ personal investment in his success made all the difference. He went from never having studied Chinese, to being able to carry on full conversations by the end of the program.

Learning a Second Language: Adventures at Middlebury Language Schools

Colby Bittner — 2025-07-21T09:00:00-0400

Colby Bittner reflects on her 8-week summer as an immersion student at our School of Japanese, concluding: “It wasn’t all fun and games, and it certainly wasn’t easy, but I might dare to say that I have not only grown as a person from my experience at the summer program; I have also gained an appreciation and love for learning languages that will last a lifetime.”

Meet 7-week Portuguese Immersion Student: Chelsea Maxwell

agjackson@middlebury.edu — 2025-07-14T09:00:00-0400

With the consistent support of her classmates and the dedicated faculty and staff of our Portuguese School, Chelsea Maxwell saw her language skills improve every day. She can now confidently hold a conversation or read a book in Portuguese.

Meet (3 time returning) 8-week Chinese School Immersion Student: Zoe Snell

agjackson@middlebury.edu — 2025-06-23T08:00:00-0400

For Penn State student Zoe Snell, who returns for her third summer at our 8-week Immersion program in Summer 2025, coming to study at the Chinese School was the best decision [she] ever made, for both personal and academic reasons.

Meet 8-week Russian Immersion Student: Henry Brooks

agjackson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-04T07:19:25-0500

Our incredible bilingual assistants ensured Henry Brooks’ summer at our 8-week School of Russian was both academically and personally triumphant.

Meet 7-week German Immersion Student: Kimberly Barnhart

agjackson@middlebury.edu — 2024-09-19T09:54:30-0400

Kimberly Barnhart, Academic Dean and French Teacher at The Sharon Academy, shares about her summer at the German School.

Middlebury Program is a Haven for Language Integration

Anna Brashear — 2024-09-05T11:18:06-0400

Middlebury College, located in upstate Vermont, is the home to the Middlebury Language Schools, where Anna Brashear ’15, along with other Vassar College students, spent her summer in a full immersion language program studying advanced German at the German School.