Anne Briggs
Portuguese Immersion Program
The application for Summer 2025 is now open. APPLY NOW
Immersion Programs take place during the summers in Vermont. The 7- and 8-week programs are designed for beginning to advanced language learners. High school graduates to 80+ years old are eligible.
Graduate Programs can be completed over four summers in Vermont, or in one summer and an academic year abroad or online, depending on the language. We enroll about 400 graduate students.
Our dedicated faculty are some of the world’s leading academic professionals, and our students graduate with some of the highest levels of proficiency. Here’s why:
We Take the Language Pledge®
Only Middlebury offers the Language Pledge®, in which you pledge to communicate only in language while here. In a community of motivated learners and supportive faculty, this creates a 24/7 immersion environment.
We Live in Language
You’ll exponentially grow your language skills in whichever program you choose. And you’ll put your language skills to work outside of the classroom as well, participating in all kinds of cocurricular activities.
We Share a Commitment
Each summer, we welcome students from all walks of life and all parts of the world, ages 18 to 80+. One thing they all have in common is the potential and the desire to succeed.
Since 1915, Middlebury Language Schools has been one of the nation’s preeminent language learning institutions featuring programs in 12 languages in Vermont and English in California. Together we create one of the most effective language-learning environments each summer.