Welcome to the Northwest Language Center

Helping Western Washington Communicate with the World

The Northwest Language Center (NLC) at Everett Community College is dedicated to providing high-quality instruction and other world-languages services to individuals of all ages. As Snohomish County's #1 resource for language and cross-cultural training, the NLC offers:

• a wide variety of language classes at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels
• customized on-site (at your place of business) language fast-track Spanish language training for occupational purposes using the Command Spanish® methodology
• conversational and travel classes for adults at the EvCC campus
• children's classes at local elementary schools
• cooking classes
• study-abroad programs in Germany, Spain and Mexico
• translation services
• interpretation referral services
• educational and entertaining cultural events, such as our Paella and Flamenco Festival

Whether you are taking our classes and workshops to earn a promotion at your workplace, for CEUs (Continuing Education Units), for clock hours or for personal reasons, our programs are the key to your success in language learning.