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From http://niu.edu/clasep/specialevents/burmese/

Northern Illinois University is offering the world’s first distance learning course on Burmese, a language spoken by the majority of people in Burma/Myanmar. This course offers students the flexibility of studying the language from anywhere over the internet. All instruction will be live and conducted by Professor Tharaphi Than.

This course assumes no prior knowledge of the language. At the end of the course, students will be able to engage in everyday conversations and use the language for travel--from hiring a taxi to asking for a visa extension. Students will also learn how to read and write basic, colloquial Burmese. The course will be taught in English and Burmese.

Class size is limited to 15 people. This is a non-credit bearing course, designed for professionals and for community college students in Illinois who want to enroll in a minor in Southeast Asian Studies at NIU and apply for FLAS funding.

For full details go to http://niu.edu/clasep/specialevents/burmese/