University of Kent Language Centre

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Language Centre

The University of Kent's Language Centre offers a wide range of world languages which can be taken for credit or in your free time. Learning a language opens up a world of opportunities: as well as enhancing your employability, it also gives you the opportunity to study abroad.

Learn a new language

The Language Centre offers Kent students the opportunity to study a variety of language modules as part of your existing degree programme or as an additional extracurricular module. Undergraduate students can also apply to take a Year in a Language. 

Learn a new language or brush up on your existing language skills. Choose from eight foreign languages offered at different levels to suit you.

Choose your language

A hallway in a mosque in Abu Dhabi, with ornate pillars either side. The floor, columns and ceiling are white.

Arabic
Eiffel Tower against a blue sky

French
German castle, perched on a hilltop, surrounded by pine forest

German
The Italian flag flying in the Piazza Venezia, Rome

Italian
A red pagoda with Mount Fuji visible in the background against a blue sky

Japanese
Two red and gold Chinese New Year lanterns hanging, blowing slightly in the breeze

Mandarin
Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, against a bright blue sky.

Russian
Blue sky, visible from beneath an arch in the Alhambra, Granada

Spanish