Widening your language skills
Knowledge of a foreign language can be a valuable research tool, allowing you to access a wider range of books and journals. It can also help you make contact at international conferences and enhance your social skills.
We offer comprehensive facilities for language study to all students. The Language Centre based on University Park, provides a number of language courses in conjunction with the Graduate School. These are generally for research students although postgraduate students on taught causes may also attend the evening classes if there are spaces available.
The courses on offer include:
- an Inter-Faculty Language Programme offering modules in eight languages – Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Spanish — with levels ranging from beginners (stage 1) to near native speaker competence (stage 6)
- evening classes in a range of languages at beginner’s or post-beginner’s level, currently in French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish
- a course in German for Academic Purposes for research students from the School of Humanities, designed to equip students with sufficient reading skills to be able to use materials in the target language for research purposes
The Language Centre also houses a Self-Access Centre, dedicated to supporting language learning. The Self-Access Centre is an ideal environment for independent study and houses an archive of over 1,800 audio and video tapes in 30 languages. Open to all staff and students, the Centre provides:
- reference materials in 30 languages
- 24 audio-visual workstations for watch videotapes and TV broadcasts or listen to audiotapes in a variety of languages
- multimedia facilities for interactive learning, including over 100 CD-ROMs and graded Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) grammar exercises
For more information about the range of courses and facilities on offer, please visit www.nottingham.ac.uk/language-centre