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Still places for students on free language courses this semester!

Don’t miss your chance to sign up for a free language course this semester! For courses starting in the week beginning 10th October, there are still places in the following courses: Beginners (no prior knowledge of the language required): Russian 1a; Chinese 1a; Arabic 1a; Portuguese 1a; Farsi (Persian) 1a Pre-intermediate (for improvers – please note you will need to have already completed a beginner’s course in the language): German 2a; French 2a Intermediate (please note... Continue reading →

Modern Languages launches Southampton German Festival

The Department of Modern Languages at Southampton has teamed up with the Winchester Poetry Festival and the Phoenix Film Theatre for its forthcoming ‘Southampton German Festival’, which aims to introduce different facets of contemporary ‘German’ culture through an exciting range of cultural activities, catering for different tastes and including family friendly activities. Continue reading →

Southampton Language Exchange event this week!

Modern Languages and Erasmus students may be interested in joining the first social event organised by the Southampton Language Exchange this Tuesday 27th September from 7pm-10pm in the American Bar (SUSU Building on Highfield Campus). Every Tuesday over 100 people from all over the world get together at these social events to practise their languages and make new friends. Students are invited to chat and socialise in a different language and help others practise the languages they speak. Continue reading →

Welcome to our new Modern Languages students!

We welcome all of our new Modern Languages students who are arriving this weekend for Freshers’ Week! Check out our resource Get Ready for Languages, which aims to guide you to useful information about your life as a Modern Languages student at Southampton. You can read about staff in the Modern Languages department, discover what sorts of things Modern Languages students, past and present, are getting up to, and explore some of the modules you might decide to do. Continue reading →

Professor Roumyana Slabakova to give Inaugural Lecture

Professor Roumyana Slabakova, Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) in Modern Languages at the University of Southampton will be giving her Inaugural Lecture on Thursday 27th October 2016 at 18:00 at the University’s Avenue Campus. The talk, entitled ‘The Bottleneck Hypothesis of Second Language Acquisition’, will discuss second language acquisition as a cognitive process. Continue reading →

Potential future Modern Languages students to attend University Open Days

Hundreds of potential future Modern Languages students will be visiting the University of Southampton on Saturday 3rd September and Sunday 4th September 2016 for the University of Southampton Open Days. Visitors to Modern Languages may be interested to take a look at Get Ready for Languages, an online resource which aims to guide you to useful information about life as a Modern Languages student at Southampton. Continue reading →