Since 1991, the Melikian Center has offered summer intensive language and culture training through the Critical Languages Institute (CLI). The Melikian Center has interviewed CLI faculty about the language they teach, what drew them to teaching, and about teaching a language online. You can watch these short interviews by clicking on an CLI faculty member's name that is displayed in red.

Albanian - Linda Mëniku, University of Tirana in Albania.

Armenian - 1st Year - Gohar Harutyunyan, Yerevan State University in Armenia.

Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian - Jakov Causevic,  American Councils for International Education in Belgrade, Serbia.

Hebrew - Alvina Hovhannisyan

Indonesian - Nyoman Riasa, Ngurah Rai University and APBIPA Bali in Denpasar, Indonesia.

MacedonianBorce Arsov, Institute for Macedonian Language "Krste Misirkov" at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia.

Persian - 1st Year - Maryam Sadeghi

Persian - 2nd Year - Hassan Hussain, University of North Georgia in Dahlonega, Georgia. 

Polish - Agnieszka Mielczarek, University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, Poland.

Russian - 1st Year - Elena Doludenko, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

Russian - 1st Year - Irina Drigalenko, Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Russian - 1st Year - Natalia Khan, Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 

Russian - 2nd Year - Marina Sari Ad-Din, St. Joseph University of Beirut and Lebanese American University in Lebanon.

Tatar - Alima Salakhutdinova

Turkish - Nilay Sevinc, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Ukrainian - Olena Tanchyk, Donetsk State University of Management in Mariupol, Ukraine,

Uzbek - 1st year - Saodat Adilova, Nizami Tashkent State Pedagogical University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.