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Select your chosen language from the list below where you will find the course description.

Covid-19 Update: Our classes will continue as scheduled

We are now enrolling for our Intensive courses which start from 2nd August 2021.
Please see our Enrolment Page for full details.

Please read our Terms and Conditions before applying for any of our courses.

Note: We do not offer classes in English as a Foreign Language. For English, please contact IFCELS.

• Arabic

  Modern Standard Arabic

  • Beginners
  • Beginners 1 - Online Summer Intensive Course August 2021
  • Beginners 1 - Face-to-Face On Campus Intensive course - August 2021
  • Beginners 2 - Face-to-Face On Campus Intensive course - August 2021
  • Beginners 2 - Online Summer Intensive Course August 2021
  • Beginners 3 - Online Summer Intensive Course August 2021
  • Accelerated Beginners (2 classes per week)
  • Communicative Post-Beginners 1 
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate
  • Intermediate
  • Upper Intermediate
  • Pre-Advanced
  • Advanced
  • Proficiency 

  Levantine

  • Beginners
  • Beginners 1 - Online Summer Intensive Course August 2021
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate 
  • Pre-Intermediate 1 - Online Summer Intensive Course August 2021
  • Intermediate 
  • Upper Intermediate
  • Advanced 
  • Proficiency 

  Other Arabic Courses

  • Arabic (Native Speakers) Elementary
  • Arabic (Native Speakers) Intermediate (not currently available)
  • Arabic Speaking Skills
  • Arabic Speaking Skills Advanced
  • Qur'anic Beginners 
  • Qur'anic Elementary
  • Calligraphy (not currently available)
  • Egyptian Beginners
  • Gulf Beginners (not currently available)
  • Maghrebi Beginners (not currently available)

  See the full list of short evening courses and accredited programmes in Arabic on the Arabic Section Homepage.

• Bengali

  • Beginners
  • Elementary

• Chinese (Cantonese)

  • Beginners (not currently available)

• Chinese (Mandarin)

  • Beginners
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate
  • Intermediate
  • Upper Intermediate
  • Pre-Advanced
  • Advanced

  For the full list of short evening courses, exam preparation and accredited programmes in Chinese see the Chinese Section Homepage.

• French

  Beginners (not currently available)

• Hebrew

  • Beginners

• Hindi

  • Beginners (Beginners 2 and Beginners 3 - Online Summer Intensive Course August 2021)

• Indonesian

  • Beginners

• Japanese

  • Beginners
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate
  • Intermediate
  • Upper Intermediate
  • Pre-Advanced
  • Advanced
  • Proficiency
  • Accelerated Stage 1 (2 classes per week)

  See the full list of short evening courses and accredited programmes in Japanese, as well as available awards and prizes, on the Japanese Section Homepage.

• Korean

  • Beginners
  • Beginners 1 - Online Summer Intensive Course August 2021
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate
  • Intermediate
  • Upper Intermediate
  • Pre-Advanced
  • Advanced
  • Proficiency

  For the full list of tuition options in Korean see the Korean Section Homepage.

• Kurdish

  • Kurmanji Beginners (not currently available)
  • Sorani Beginners  (not currently available)

• Persian

  • Beginners
  • Elementary 
  • Pre-Intermediate 
  • Intermediate

  For the full list of tuition options in Persian see the Persian Section Homepage.

• Sanskrit

  • Beginners (Beginners 1 - Online Summer Intensive Course August 2021)
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate
  • Sanskrit Reading 1
  • Sanskrit Reading 2

  For the full list of short evening courses in Sanskrit and for the information on Sanskrit teaching and learning at SOAS Language Centre please visit the Sanskrit Language Homepage.

• Sinhala

  Beginners

• Spanish

  Beginners (not currently available)

• Swahili

  • Beginners
  • Essential Swahili - Online Summer Intensive Course August 2021

• Tagalog (Filipino)

  Beginners

• Tamil

  • Beginners
  • Elementary

• Thai

  • Beginners

• Tibetan (Classical)

  • Beginners
  • Reading Tibetan - Online Summer Intensive Course August 2021

  For more details see the Tibetan Section Homepage.

• Turkish

  • Beginners (not currently available)

• Urdu

  • Beginners (not currently available)
  • Elementary (not currently available)
  • Heritage (not currently available)

• Vietnamese

  Introduction to Vietnamese: Language and Culture

  Beginners (not currently available)