How Peace Corps Volunteers Learn Languages Fast

✌️Every day, all around the world, Peace Corps volunteers use languages to help those who need it the most. How do they do it? Let’s find out!

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Intro
0:19 - What Is the Peace Corps?
1:45 - What Does a Peace Corps Volunteer Do?
2:43 - Why Are Languages Important?
3:47 - What Languages Do They Learn?
5:23 - The Invitation
6:17 - Arrival Language Testing
9:12 - What Happens If You Fail?
12:14 - Pre-Service Training
15:49 - Going Solo!
16:24 - Alone in Moldova…
16:54 - Alone in Burkina Faso…
17:44 - Teaching English in Kyrgyzstan…
19:13 - The Grande Finale

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🎬 Video Clips:

President John F. Kennedy's University of Michigan Speech
https://youtu.be/ydTaoZ9JSGk?t=90

Two years living in rural West Africa | My Peace Corps Story
https://youtu.be/ndnPvk1jpn0?t=34

MY PEACE CORPS EXPERIENCE! What it's really like as a Peace Corps Volunteer?!? (Living in Africa)
https://youtu.be/K0Sy4XxImOM?t=20

Peace Corps Armenia 27 Group Pre-service Training
https://youtu.be/UFnEWzzS3FA?t=434

What Does the Peace Corps Do? - Not What You Think... | Peace Corps Experience
https://youtu.be/Cd35TbpzNas?t=72

WIKITONGUES: Lorenzo speaking K'iche' Mayan
https://youtu.be/7zQSfU5HkUc?t=11

PEACE CORPS LANGUAGE LEARNING
https://youtu.be/SQL7ekb83GE?t=70

https://youtu.be/fpOPhsoiqTk?t=141

Peace Corps Language Testing (LPI) Explained
https://youtu.be/QR0JOLO8_pA?t=66

Peace Corps Pre-Service Training (PST)
https://youtu.be/gnK1yqTrusc?t=49

What Does the Peace Corps Do? - Not What You Think... | Peace Corps Experience
https://youtu.be/Cd35TbpzNas?t=130

https://youtu.be/fpOPhsoiqTk?t=203

Beginning of Pre-Service Training | Peace Corps Thailand Vlog #3
https://youtu.be/Xh1S2uqLeRY?t=140

Peace Corps Senegal: Swearing-In Oath
https://youtu.be/r_6VEaZnSoo?t=62

https://youtu.be/fpOPhsoiqTk?t=440

Two years living in rural West Africa | My Peace Corps Story
https://youtu.be/ndnPvk1jpn0?t=34

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🖼 Images:

Special thanks to https://www.peacecorps.gov/ for photos of Peace Corps volunteers!

“Madagascar Peace Corps volunteers swearing in, April 2006” by Unknown is licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

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