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Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (English: National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations),[1] abbreviated as INALCO, is a French university specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. Its coverage spans languages of Central Europe, Africa, Asia, America, and Oceania.
It is also informally called Langues’O (IPA: [lɑ̃ɡz‿o]), an abbreviation for Langues orientales.
Inalco offers undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education courses that allow students to:[3]
These courses can lead to careers in intercultural communication, business and intercultural relations, as well as language teaching and multilingual computing.
Compared to other French universities, many programs at INALCO show high failure rates, i.e. high proportions of students failing the course in their end-of-year exam.[4][5] This is particularly true among students specializing in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Arabic, historically the largest departments of INALCO.
Here is an example: A table [citation needed] showing approximate student numbers and rates of success or failure in the Department of Japanese Studies' first, second, and third years.