Learn a Language

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.

We are now enrolling for our Summer term commencing the week beginning 19th April for 10 weeks. Please see our Enrolment Page for 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
  • Accelerated Beginners (2 classes 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 (Native Speakers) Elementary
  • Arabic (Native Speakers) Intermediate (not currently available)
  • Arabic Speaking Skills
  • 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

• 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
  • 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 (not currently available)
  • Intermediate

• 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 (not currently available)

• Swahili

  • Beginners

• Tagalog (Filipino)

  Beginners

• Tamil

  • Beginners
  • Elementary

• Thai

  • Beginners

• Tibetan (Classical)

  • Beginners

• 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)