COURSES OFFERED BY SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

Studying Arabic At SOAS Language Centre SOAS Language Centre in London operates the largest non-degree Arabic language programme in the UK. It runs over 120 scheduled courses a year for learners. In addition, SOAS Language Centre also offers individual tuition or small group tuition.

Chinese is a vibrant section within SOAS Language Centre and the study of Chinese is a popular choice with language learners from all walks of life. Currently, there are around a dozen teachers of Chinese, all of whom have considerable expertise in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language.

Indonesian is part of the Austronesian language family. It is a standardized register of Malay and one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Indonesia has a large population – the fourth largest in the world and Indonesian is spoken by the greater majority of the Indonesian populati...

Korean is the official language spoken by North and South Koreans. There are approximately 78 million Korean speakers around the world. The language has its own writing system called ‘Hangul’  created in 1443 by King Sejong with a group of scholars. Korea [ ?? ], once known as ‘Land of the ...

It is sometimes assumed, on the basis of its script, that Persian is related to Arabic. This is false. As an Indo-European language of the Indo-Iranian branch. Persian is closely related to Kurdish and Pashto and even more closely related to Dari (an official language of Afghanistan) and to Tajik.

Separated from its linguistic relatives by the Dravidian languages of Southern India, such as Tamil and Telugu, Sinhala represents an outpost of Indo-Aryan speech far to the south of the linguistic continuum of this branch of the Indo-European language family.

Tamil belongs to the Dravidian family of languages along with Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. It is the Dravidian language with the longest recorded history by far with epigraphic records dating back several centuries before the Common Era and an unbroken literary tradition of more than two thousand...

The Tibetan language area covers a substantial territory ranging from Pakistan (Baltistan) in the west to India (Ladakh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh) and China (Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan) in the east. A Tibetan language, Dzongkha, is the national language of the independent.

Urdu came into existence as a result of the Muslim conquest of the Indian sub-continent. The Persian-speaking invaders needed to communicate with the local inhabitants and the medium which evolved was Urdu, whose grammar is based on the Hindustani dialects of the Delhi.

Alongside Assamese, to which it is closely related and with which it shares the same script, Bengali represents the most easterly of all Indo-European languages. It is the national language of Bangladesh (former East Pakistan) and the state language of West Bengal in India.