Language Certificates

Would you like to more clearly demonstrate your foreign language ability to employers? Some IR students do this by earning a minor (or even a double major) in a foreign language. But you can also do this through a free BYU Language Certificate that will be included on your official transcript. Language certificates help employers recognize exactly how proficient you are: They will know that you spent 18-24 months in France mastering the language, not just sightseeing, or that your three years of BYU Spanish prepared you far more than three years of high school Spanish.

Language certificates are currently available in the following languages:

Arabic	Cebuano	Chinese	Czech
Danish	Dutch	Finnish	French
German	Haitian Creole	Indonesian	Italian
Japanese	Korean	Lao	Norwegian
Portuguese	Russian	Serbian/Croatian	Spanish
Swedish	Tagalog	Thai	Vietnamese

Requirements for a certificate:

Take three classes—1 language, 1 culture, 1 literature—from a list of approved classes. You probably already took at least one of these as part of your IR requirements.
An oral proficiency interview.
A written proficiency test.

Passing either test with a proficiency rating of at least Advanced Low qualifies you for a language certificate, which will appear on your official BYU transcript.

Find out more about language certificates: https://cls.byu.edu/programs/certificate/about