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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, online teaching only.

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

For course timetables, please see our Enrolment page.

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

• Arabic

  Modern Standard Arabic

  • Beginners
  • Accelerated Beginners (4 hours per week)
  • Communicative Post-Beginners 1
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate
  • Intermediate
  • Upper Intermediate
  • Pre-Advanced
  • Advanced
  • Proficiency

  Levantine

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

  Other Arabic Courses

  • Arabic for Native Speakers
  • Arabic Speaking Skills
  • Qur'anic Beginners (not currently available)
  • 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

• Burmese

  Introduction to Burmese: Language and Culture

  Beginners

• Chinese (Cantonese)

  • Beginners
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate

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

• Chinese (Mandarin)

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

  HSK Preparation Courses

  • HSK Level 1 Preparatory Course
  • HSK Level 2 Preparatory Course
  • HSK Level 3 Preparatory Course
  • HSK Level 4 Preparatory Course

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

• French

  Beginners

• Hebrew

  Beginners

• Hindi

  • Beginners
  • Elementary

• Indonesian

  Beginners

• Japanese

  • Beginners
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate
  • Intermediate
  • Upper Intermediate
  • Pre-Advanced
  • Advanced
  • Proficiency
  • Accelerated Stage 1 (4 hours 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
  • 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
  • Sorani Beginners

• Persian

  • Beginners
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate
  • Intermediate

• Portuguese

  Beginners

• Russian

  • Russian Beginners
  • Russian Post-Beginners Course

• Sanskrit

  • Introduction to Sanskrit
  • Beginners
  • 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

• Swahili

  • Beginners
  • Elementary

• Tagalog (Filipino)

  Beginners

• Tamil

  • Beginners
  • Elementary

• Thai

  • Beginners
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate

• Tibetan (Classical)

  • Beginners
  • Elementary

• Turkish

  • Beginners
  • Elementary
  • Pre-Intermediate

• Urdu

  • Beginners
  • Elementary
  • Heritage

• Vietnamese

  Introduction to Vietnamese: Language and Culture

  Beginners