Green Mountain College
Arabic, Chinese, French and Spanish

Jack Gish, student
Middlebury, VT
I don’t think I ever really felt uncomfortable; I felt like everybody was in the same boat as me. We all had some difficulty, not being able to speak in our first language - but as soon as we started class and I realized we were learning things in one day that took months to learn in high school, that’s when I really embraced it and tried to learn all I could. I made a ton of friends. I still talk to lots of them. I ended up being able to skip 3 grades in Spanish - and it wasn’t just me. There were definitely people who were skipping grades in school.
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Information on this site describes the MMLA 2008 session. It remains posted in order to give browsers an understanding of our inaugural session. Details for the MMLA 2009 session will be posted this fall.
All 2008 summer camps will be June 28-July 26 at the following sites:
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts *
Arrival Time: 1 p.m.- 4 p.m., Sunday, June 28, 2008
Students: Middle and High School
Languages: Chinese (Year 1 or 2), French (Year 1-4), and Spanish (Year 1-4)
* Note: this program is offered jointly by the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. To apply for a summer camp at Hampshire College, contact the Center for Talented Youth at www.cty.jhu.edu.