Welcome to the language testing information page for Humanities-affiliated languages! Below you are able to select or filter the language(s) you want to learn more about the placement or proficiency exam process. A placement test is designed to evaluate your level of knowledge in a language so that you can enroll in said language. A proficiency test will help towards assessing your mastery of a language to be exempt from taking courses for certain foreign language requirements (College of Arts & Sciences 1st year foreign language requirement, JSIS, CISB, Linguistics, etc). Some hosting departing will have one test for placement and proficiency, some will have various options.
If you do not see the language you are interested in, it is either not part of a Humanities-affiliated department or a language not taught at the UW. To see the full list of languages taught at the UW, please look at the UAA page on testing in world languages at UW.
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American Sign Language (ASL)
Hosting Department: Linguistics -
Arabic
Hosting Department: Near Eastern Languages & Civilization -
Bengali
Hosting Department: Asian Languages & Literature -
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
Hosting Department: Slavic Languages & Literatures -
Bulgarian
Hosting Department: Slavic Languages & Literatures -
Chinese (Mandarin)
Hosting Department: Asian Languages & Literature -
Czech
Hosting Department: Slavic Languages & Literatures -
Danish
Hosting Department: Scandinavian Studies -
Estonian
Hosting Department: Scandinavian Studies -
Finnish
Hosting Department: Scandinavian Studies -
French
Hosting Department: French & Italian Studies -
German
Hosting Department: German Studies -
Greek (Classical)
N.B.: Modern Greek language assessments are housed in the Jackson School of International Studies. For more information, contact jsisadv@uw.edu.
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Hebrew (Biblical)
Hosting Department: Near Eastern Languages & Civilization -
Hebrew (Modern)
Hosting Department: Near Eastern Languages & Civilization -
Hindi
Hosting Department: Asian Languages & Literature -
Indonesian
Hosting Department: Asian Languages & Literature -
Italian
Hosting Department: French & Italian Studies -
Japanese
Hosting Department: Asian Languages & Literature -
Kazakh
Hosting Department: Near Eastern Languages & Civilization -
Korean
Hosting Department: Asian Languages & Literature -
Latin
Hosting Department: Classics -
Latvian
Hosting Department: Scandinavian Studies -
Lithuanian
Hosting Department: Scandinavian Studies -
Norwegian
Hosting Department: Scandinavian Studies -
Persian
Hosting Department: Near Eastern Languages & Civilization -
Polish
Hosting Department: Slavic Languages & Literatures -
Portuguese
Hosting Department: Spanish & Portuguese Studies -
Romanian
Hosting Department: Slavic Languages & Literatures -
Russian
Hosting Department: Slavic Languages & Literatures -
Sanskrit
Hosting Department: Asian Languages & Literature -
Slovenian
Hosting Department: Slavic Languages & Literatures -
Spanish
Hosting Department: Spanish & Portuguese Studies -
Swedish
Hosting Department: Scandinavian Studies -
Turkish
Hosting Department: Near Eastern Languages & Civilization -
Ukrainian
Hosting Department: Slavic Languages & Literatures -
Urdu
Hosting Department: Asian Languages & Literature -
Uyghur
Hosting Department: Near Eastern Languages & Civilization -
Uzbek
Hosting Department: Near Eastern Languages & Civilization -
Vietnamese
Hosting Department: Asian Languages & Literature