Beginners' Languages Taster Day
Please note: Bookings for this event have now closed as they have reached maximum capacity. Please email [email protected] if you would like to join the waiting list.
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is delighted to be running its second Beginners’ Languages Taster Day in March 2025!
Alongside our usual Modern Languages Open Day (which will take place on Saturday 17 May), this year we will once again be holding an event dedicated to our beginners’ languages courses.
This event offers students from UK secondary schools in Year 12 or equivalent an opportunity to gain greater insight into our beginners' languages degree programmes at Oxford. Students in Year 11 who are starting to consider their options for university are also welcome to attend.
The Taster Day will take place on Saturday 8 March in our main Faculty teaching spaces – the Taylor Institution Library and 47 Wellington Square. After an information and Q&A session in the morning, students will have the chance to attend taster sessions in two of our beginners' languages.
The following languages will be represented at the Taster Day, with academics and current undergraduates present to provide further information about the course(s) and to answer students’ questions:
- German
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Russian
- Czech (with Slovak)
- Modern Greek
- Polish
The provisional event programme can be found on the Faculty website.
To register for the Taster Day, students should fill out the registration form by 12 noon on Friday 14 February so we know who to expect at the event. Please note that spaces will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, and the form will close once our maximum capacity has been reached.
Our beginners’ languages courses offer an exciting and rare opportunity for students to engage with a new language and culture for the first time, or to pick up languages they studied at GCSE. The courses are challenging yet rewarding, with many designed to bring students up to A-level standard within the first year.
We would love to welcome lots of strong linguists/students who are looking for a new challenge at University. As well as alongside a post-A-level language, most of our beginners’ languages can be studied in conjunction with subjects from the Humanities such as English, History, Linguistics, or Philosophy, for which applicants do not need to be studying a language to A-level or equivalent.
We are also pleased to be able to help students who are in need of additional financial support with reasonable expenses such as travelling to and from Oxford for the event. There is a space to include this information in the registration form.