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Modern Languages project highlighted in new film release

This Friday sees the launch of “To say goodbye”: an animated documentary film based on the Spanish Civil War oral histories of “Los Niños”, which will have its premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival on 28th September. This film highlights the significant work of Alicia Pozo-Gutierrez from the Department of Modern Languages and others involved in this project. See the film website for more details. Continue reading →

Modern Languages project highlighted in new film release

This Friday sees the launch of “To say goodbye”: an animated documentary film based on the Spanish Civil War oral histories of “Los Niños”, which will have its premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival on 28th September. This film highlights the significant work of Alicia Pozo-Gutierrez from the Department of Modern Languages and others involved in this project. See the film website for more details. Continue reading →

New academic year, new language?

Why not start a new language this year and add to your employability? You can take a language module as an option through the Curriculum Innovation programme – choose from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. To find out more, follow the Curriculum Innovation or Language Module links. Do tell us if there is a language you would like to learn that we don’t yet offer. Continue reading →

New academic year, new language?

Why not start a new language this year and add to your employability? You can take a language module as an option through the Curriculum Innovation programme – choose from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. To find out more, follow the Curriculum Innovation or Language Module links. Do tell us if there is a language you would like to learn that we don’t yet offer. Continue reading →

BBC World Service news in 33 languages

News and analysis from around the world can be accessed online in English and 32 different other languages from the BBC World Service website. The written news reports and audio files can be accessed via PC or mobile devices, including smartphones, and saved locally for you to use again. Use these resources if you want to receive up to date news in your own language or if you want to improve a language you are learning by following news and current affairs from different regions. Continue reading →

BBC World Service news in 33 languages

News and analysis from around the world can be accessed online in English and 32 different other languages from the BBC World Service website. The written news reports and audio files can be accessed via PC or mobile devices, including smartphones, and saved locally for you to use again. Use these resources if you want to receive up to date news in your own language or if you want to improve a language you are learning by following news and current affairs from different regions. Continue reading →

Learn English with the BBC World Service

The BBC World Service offers a whole range of English language learning materials online. Learning English pages contain, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation activities alongside interactive quizzes, news and current affairs and the site’s long-lived soap cartoon, Flat Mates, which lets the audience decide the story-line. Use the site too for specialist areas such as business or sport-based language and to acquire a phrase a day. Continue reading →

Learn English with the BBC World Service

The BBC World Service offers a whole range of English language learning materials online. Learning English pages contain, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation activities alongside interactive quizzes, news and current affairs and the site’s long-lived soap cartoon, Flat Mates, which lets the audience decide the story-line. Use the site too for specialist areas such as business or sport-based language and to acquire a phrase a day. Continue reading →