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    13 June 2014 | POSTED BY Newsroom Staff

    How Do Mormon Missionaries Learn Foreign Languages? NPR Explains

    A piece from National Public Radio (NPR) details how missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints learn languages at the faith’s missionary training center in Provo, Utah.

    NPR’s story focuses on a class of missionaries learning Mandarin Chinese. These young men and women will head out to their assigned areas of service after only nine weeks of study—a small time frame, NPR notes, compared with the U.S. military’s 64-week course in Mandarin taught at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.

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