Foreign Culture Guide9.0 - App Store

The Foreign Culture Guide app, formerly known as CLREC Navy Global Deployer, is a Ready Relevant Learning tool to help Sailors meet cultural awareness and language familiarization requirements. It offers Sailors and their families detailed information on language, history, geography, people, ethnic groups, religious institutions, and social norms for more than 150 countries and territories.

WHAT’S INCLUDED?
-- Every Deployment a Global Engagement (EDGE) Courses - Cross-cultural learning to prepare for overseas assignments and interactions with people from foreign countries
-- Cultural Orientation Training (COT) Courses - Culture specific video-based training
-- Culture Cards - Quick reference guide for each country’s language and culture
-- Professional Etiquette Guide - Executive summary of a country’s culture
-- Language Guides - Links to online foreign language familiarization
-- Language Phrases - Frequently used phrases with audio
-- Language Jumpstart Guides - Basic information on each specific language and its grammar

Whether you are an experienced traveler returning to a foreign port, a new Sailor going abroad for the first time, or simply interested in learning about other cultures and places, the Foreign Culture Guide app has the resources you need!

Version History -- 29 countries and regions added
-- New and updated Autonomous Language Acquisition, Enhancement, and Sustainment Guides
-- New and updated content and links
-- Updated training content for countries around the world 9.0 Sep 30 -- Bug fixes and stability updates 8.1 Apr 6 -- Updated training content for 29 countries
-- Updated content and links
-- New and updated Culture Cards and Professional Etiquette Guides
-- New and updated Autonomous Language Acquisition Guides and foreign language phrases 8.0 05/30/2025 -- New name
-- Training content for 12 new countries: Belarus, Canada, Estonia, Greenland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, South Africa, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela
-- Updated content for 18 countries
-- New Cultural Orientation Training (COT) courses, now available on Navy e-Learning
-- New and updated Culture Cards and Professional Etiquette Guides
-- New and updated Autonomous Language Acquisition Guides and foreign language phrases 7.0 07/26/2024 - Training content for 30 new countries
- New Cultural Orientation Training (COT) courses, now available on Navy e-Learning
- New and updated Culture Cards and Professional Etiquette Guides
- New and updated Autonomous Language Acquisition Guides and foreign language phrases 6.0 05/10/2023 -- 16 new countries/regions added: Argentina, Bangladesh, Brunei, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India (Southern Micro Region), Japan (Northern Micro Region), Marshall Islands, Morocco, Norway, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, United Kingdom
-- Updated training content for 14 countries/regions with Electronic Training Jacket (ETJ) completion credits
-- New Cultural Orientation Trainings (COT), now available on Navy e-Learning
-- New and updated Culture Cards and Professional Etiquette Guides
-- New and updated Autonomous Language Acquisition Guides and foreign language phrases

-- Bug fixes 5.0 06/27/2022 -- Six new countries
-- Updated content for 28 countries
-- New and updated Autonomous Language Acquisition Guides
-- Bug fixes and stability updates 4.0 07/16/2021 -- EDGE basic and advanced cross-cultural courses to prepare for deployments to Overseas Fleet Concentration Areas
-- Cultural Orientation Training (COT) in conjunction with short-term deployments
-- More countries added: Cameroon, Niger, and Serbia
-- Completed EDGE and COT courses can be recorded in your Electronic Training Jacket directly from the app
-- Bug fixes 3.0 02/21/2020 -- Now 57 countries and territories (added 30 this update)
-- Re-organized to enhance the user experience
-- Additional common language phrases added
-- Navy EDGE Culture Shock, Cross-cultural Competence and 8 nation-specific training videos added
-- Bug fixes 2.1 12/18/2018 -- Revised and Expanded in 2018
-- Information on 25+ countries!
-- Links to resources for studying 100+ languages
-- Reduced app size delivers information only on the country a Sailor needs
-- Supports requirement for Navy Total Force cultural awareness and language familiarization
-- Updated user interface
-- Bug fixes 2.0.11 02/16/2018 Bug fixes.
Performance improvements.
Corrected duplicate slide in South Korea OCAT 1.9.5 11/29/2017 1.6.13 02/03/2017