International Languages

Explore different cultures and you’ll better understand your own.

How Do You Say... Welcome!

Bienvenue! Bienvenido! Whether you want to enroll in language courses for personal growth, as an elective, or you've decided to pursue a foreign language as a major, Coastline courses are suited to meet your needs.

You may opt for our Distance Learning and Telecourse instruction or the traditional classroom format. Students interested in observing one of our classes can arrange a classroom visit to witness interactive student learning and innovative teaching methods. 

Available Programs

International Language Courses at Coastline

• Arabic

  Current Courses

  View Arabic Courses in the Coastline Catalog

  Faculty

  Amer El-Ahraf aelahraf@coastline.edu

• Chinese

  Current Courses

  View Chinese Courses in the Coastline Catalog

  Online Resources

  • Practice more Pinyin
  • More tools for learning Chinese
  • How to have a Chinese name

  Dictionaries

  Pleco - World's Best Chinese Dictionaries

  Faculty

  Jingfang Satow jsatow@cccd.edu

  Jingfang Satow has been a Chinese instructor at Coastline College since 2005 and has taught all levels of Chinese for over eight years. She initiated the study abroad program and took students to China in 2002, 2005, and again in 2009 through Coastline. Jingfang also developed and taught the first online Chinese class at Coastline. She has always been interested in working with projects which promote Chinese language and culture. Since 2006 she has been serving as a development team member for OLLI (Open Language Learning Initiative), a $2.8 million Sino-American software based E-Language project sponsored by the U.S. Department and the Chinese Ministry of Education, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Jingfang is native Chinese and has a M.A. in Linguistics.

• French

  Current Courses

  View French Courses in the Coastline Catalog

  Faculty

  • David Fuchs: dfuchs@coastline.edu *Dept. Chair
• Japanese

  Current Courses

  View Japanese Courses in the Coastline Catalog

  Faculty

  • Mika Sawada msawada2@cccd.edu
  • Hiromi Takahashi htakahashi1@coastline.edu
• Spanish

  Current Courses

  View Spanish Courses in the Coastline Catalog

  Faculty

  • Julie Alweheiby jalweheiby@coastline.edu
  • Sandra Basabe sbasabe@coastline.edu
  • Donna Marques dmarques1@coastline.edu
  • Citlalli Perez-Gutierrez cperezgutierrez@coastline.edu
  • Petra Petry ppetry@coastline.edu
• Vietnamese

  Coastline College's Le-Jao Center has offered a unique program of the Vietnamese language, the first of its kind in California and in the United States since 1986. Classes at different levels for beginners, business people, and advanced students who desire a major in Vietnamese studies are available daytime and evenings as well.

  Students who take courses in the Vietnamese language program can fulfill a lower General Education requirement in the section of Humanities.

  For more information concerning the Vietnamese program, please contact the following:

  • David Nguyen dnguyen@coastline.edu
  • Dung Tran dtran@coastline.edu
  • Dr. Son Kim Vo svonovember30@yahoo.com

  Current Courses

  View Vietnamese Courses in the Coastline Catalog

  Faculty

  • David Nguyen dnguyen@coastline.edu
  • Thomas Tran ttran861@occ.cccd.edu