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The Language Capital of the World''Monterey, California has trademarked the appellation "Language Capital of the World." A celebration of this distinction is held in the city yearly. The idea originated in 1994 when local scholars reviewed the distinctive resources of the community. The Defense Language Institute managed by the United States Army is the largest language teaching and learning facility in the world. Full time members of the Armed Forces, Federal Government employees and others come for courses that vary from several months to over a year. The pedagogy depends on the language offered and its difficulty in relation to English. The Middlebury Institute of International Studies incorporates second language into all its graduate programs on the Master degree level and is the pioneer institution in the United States in preparing conference interpreters, those who simultaneously or consecutively interpret (oral) language for communication between speakers. The Naval Post-Graduate School has scholars from armed forces from around the world who contribute cultural and linguistic resources. California State University, Monterey Bay began in 1993 with a mission of global integration and a strong commitment to language learning. It is among the ten most diverse universities in the United States despite its relatively recent creation. Online telephone interpretation for medicine, law enforcement, and emergency response was developed locally and has become a major market bound only by connectivity and cost. Although languages are taught in schools, colleges, universities, heritage community programs at levels from pre-school through doctoral degrees, nowhere else concentrates the resources beyond what has grown in Monterey from the days of the Army language Schools of World War II to today. The city takes efforts to make these resources known and recognizes that dissemination of the locus of strength in language learning is a priority overlooked elsewhere.The festival for 2015 was cited in the Monterey Herald and other local publications.ref>.