{"id":13364,"date":"2020-09-29T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=13364"},"modified":"2020-10-01T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:02:32","slug":"new-language-centre-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/09\/29\/new-language-centre-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"New Language Centre launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The University is celebrating the launch of a new Language Centre which offers Kent students the opportunity to study a variety of language modules.<\/p>\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/language-centre\">Language Centre<\/a> allows students to study language modules as part of their existing degree programme or as an additional extracurricular module.<\/p>\n<p>Nine modern foreign languages &#8211; Arabic, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish &#8211; are offered at different levels to suit students who already have some language knowledge or who are starting as complete beginners.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Wissia Fiorucci, Director of the Language Centre, said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to launch the University\u2019s new Language Centre, which brings all our language provision together and gives students the option to choose from a range of nine modern languages at different levels; they can strengthen existing skills or pick up something new from scratch! As we celebrated the European Day of Languages on 26 September, there could not be a better time to promote the benefits of language learning and to give as many students as possible the opportunity to benefit from the enthusiasm and expertise of a dedicated team of language teachers from all over the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, email <a href=\"mailto:languages@kent.ac.uk\">languages@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University is celebrating the launch of a new Language Centre which offers Kent students the opportunity to study a variety of language modules. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/09\/29\/new-language-centre-launched\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34790,"featured_media":13365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237575,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13396,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions\/13396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}