Source Languages Summer Schools

Please see below for a list of source languages summer schools, for the summer of 2025.

Ancient Greek

• Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Greek Summer School (takes place every second year) https://www.doaks.org/events/byzantine-studies/greek-summer-school (from intermediate to advanced levels, gives 10 scholarships that cover food and accommodation, but not travel expenses - the program for 2026 is not announced yet)

• Gennadius Library Medieval Greek Summer Session (takes place every second year). The deadline this year is January 15, they have 12 scholarships ( costs of tuition, School fees, housing, required travel within Greece, and museum and site fees. International airfare to and from Greece, meals, and incidental expenses are the participant's responsibility), program lasts 1 month and expects students to be from intermediate to advanced level.  https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/programs/gennadius-library-medieval-greek-summer-session

• Trinity College Dublin International Byzantine Greek Summer School (IBGSS)—Deadline May 15: https://www.tcd.ie/classics/byzantine

• JACT Greek Summer School 27 July to 9 August 2025 (applications open mid January) https://www.greeksummerschool.org

Latin

• University College London Summer School in Classics: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/open-days-outreach/summer-schools/london-summer-school-classics-2024
•  JACT Latin Summer Camp: https://latincamp.co.uk
• University of Bologna summer school in classical languages: https://ficlit.unibo.it/it/didattica/summer-e-winter-school/summer-school-in-classical-languages
• Oxford Latinitas: 2-week online intensives: https://www.oxfordlatinitas.org/2-4-week-intensives

Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian

Located in Bosnia:

• Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Language and Culture | Sarajevo, Bosnia:  https://www.summerschoolsineurope.eu/course/bosnian-croatian-serbian-language-and-culture

• Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Summer School and Winter School "ČITAM I PRIČAM", Sarajevo | Bosnia: https://www.lingvisti.ba/bsc-school/bosniancroatianserbian-summer-school (https://www.lingvisti.ba/bsc-school/bosniancroatianserbian-winter-school)

Located in Serbia: 

• Belgrade Summer School of Serbian Language 2025 | Belgrade, Serbia: https://www.srpskijezik.edu.rs/index.php?id=2200&jzk=en

• Summer School of Serbian Language and Culture | Nis, Serbia: https://learn-serbian.filfak.ni.ac.rs/summer-school-of-serbian-language-and-culture

• International Summer School of Serbian Language, Culture and History | Novi Sad, Serbia: https://letnjaskolasrpskogjezika.com/timetable_of_activities.php

Located in Croatia: 

• Croaticum Summer School of the Croatian Language and Culture | Zagreb, Croatia: https://croaticum.ffzg.unizg.hr/?page_id=1103

• The International Summer School of Croatian Language and Culture “Zoranic's Arcady” | Zadar, Croatia: https://www.unizd.hr/eng/research/summer-schools

• Three-Week Croatian Summer Course: https://www.voxcroatica.com/en/courses/three-week-croatian-summer-course/4

There is also a Balkan Language Initiative intense summer prorgame to learn different Balkan languages in different Balkan countries: https://www.studyabroad.americancouncils.org/bli

Arabic

See this list: https://sites.google.com/view/summerarabicstudy/the-big-list-of-programs

• The Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) Program at Jordan University of Science and Technology: https://www.just.edu.jo/Centers/LanguageCenter/Pages/summerprogram.aspx (m-ibnian@just.edu.jo)

• Language Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington (Deadline January 31): https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-language-workshop/overview/immersion/arabic/index.html (languageworkshop@iu.edu)

• Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies (June 23-27, 2025)—deadline March 3, 2025: https://hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies/

• Arabic Summer Sessions 2025, Wissem Arabic Language Institute: wial.info@gmail.com

• International Arabic Education Programs in Rabat, Morocco: https://www.qalamcenter.com/academics/programs/intensive-arabic-programs (https://www.qalamcenter.com/arabic-language-center-contact-us)

Ottoman Turkish

• ANAMED Ottoman Summer School (to take place June 22-July 25, 2025— applications will open in February): https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/summer-programs/

• Ibn Haldun University, Ottoman Summer school, June 30-August 15, 2025 (applications started in December, but continue): https://summer.ihu.edu.tr/tr/osmanli-turkcesi-yaz-okulu

Persian

• Indiana University Bloomington (online June 9-August 1, 2025) Deadline: January 31, 2025. Options: First-Year Persian or Second-Year Persian:           https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-language-workshop/overview/online/persian/index.html

• Ibn Haldun University, Persian Summer school (June 30-August 15, 2025—apply as soon as possible) https://summer.ihu.edu.tr/en/persian-summer-school

• Keep checking also: https://saadifoundation.ir/en/news/4869/persian-language-summer-school

Russian

• Tallinn Summer School (Estonia), 2025: https://summerschool.tlu.ee/russian-language/
• Russian Language Summer School in Tbilisi, Georgia, 2025: https://russian-courses.com/ 
• Institute of Russian Language and Culture,  Lomonosov  Moscow State University (The information about the 2025 Summer School will be published in February 2025): https://en.irlc.msu.ru/study_at_irlc/russian_language_summer_school 

Hebrew

• https://uhaifa.org/program/summer-intensive/

• Hebrew University in Jerusalem  (no info yet)

• https://www.runi.ac.il/en/schools/rris/resources-services/summer-hebrew-...

Armenian

• Dumbarton Oaks / HMML Summer School—Introduction to Classical Armenian Deadline: February 24 https://hmml.org/programs/intro-armenian/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGxEr5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHY47otM-ZQCbzY2XpPS5YOrY54iC6Y88pKcXqnhP7SAvhbeTSY93b1iVpQ_aem_QN5jc5ilnFRSGhp-TZA3jQ

Syriac

• Beth Mardutho. June 16-July 3, 2025 (Beginning Syriac and Intermediate-Advanced Syriac) https://bethmardutho.org/summer-language-courses