We recognize that many students at the university speak languages other than those we teach. We cannot offer credit in those languages, but many academic programs will allow students to demonstrate proficiency in order to fulfill their language requirement. We cannot verify the requirements of other programs, so students will need to confirm with their major advisor to determine if this is an option for the student. Please see below for options on how a student can pursue a language proficiency. 

Proficiency Through Secondary Study

If a student attended up until secondary school (high school) in a country that speaks the language, the student can send us a copy of their transcripts via email to worldlanguages@unt.edu and indicate that they would like to pursue obtaining a "proficiency through secondary study" waiver. These transcripts must show the student's full name, place of attendance, show years attended, grades, etc.) Once we recieve the appropriate materials, we can submit this information for review and request a "Proficiency Through Secondary Study" approval waiver form. Please note, if approved, this process can take ~8 weeks to complete before the proficiency is reflected onto a transcript. 

Proficiency Through Exam

If you wish to demonstrate your knowledge of a language with the proficiency testing option, you can request to take a test to determine your level of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. With your advisor's consent, we can try to connect you with resources to be tested in the language you speak, so you may have your requirement waived. Please note, we can only offer this option if we have a volunteer test administrator for the particular languange. Please see below for more information regarding this option. 

Please note the following:

• Our contact list of volunteer language testers changes depending on the testers' availability. Because all testers are volunteers, we can make no guarantees of whether we have a volunteer for a particular language and we cannot make a guarantee about their availability to administer test. 
• To inquire whether a particular language has a volunteer tester, please email worldlanguages@unt.edu
• The proficiency test may only be taken one time in each language.
• The student must be determined to be at an intermediate level or better in all four categories of speaking, listening, reading, and writing  by the test administrator for them to recieve the proficiency. 
• Students should plan to be tested early in their academic careers so that they are certain to fulfill any language requirements prior to applying for graduation. 
• Please note that because this process goes through several offices, processing of the results typically takes ~8 weeks to complete.
• Our volunteer test administrators may charge a fee at their discretion for administering the test.

In the past, we have had volunteer testers that included languages such as:

• Bengali
• Danish
• Dutch
• Fante
• Greek
• Hindi
• Igbo
• Lebanese
• Malayalam
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Punjabi
• Russian
• Serbian
• Swahili
• Thai
• Turkish
• Urdu
• Vietnamese
• Yoruba