{"id":13583,"date":"2020-12-03T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2020-12-03T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T11:01:13","slug":"interested-in-learning-a-new-skill-why-not-learn-a-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/12\/03\/interested-in-learning-a-new-skill-why-not-learn-a-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Interested in learning a new skill? Why not learn a language?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__lead\">\n<p>The Language Centre are offering free online taster sessions in Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese and Russian on Wednesday 3 March 2021:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<div class=\"text__body\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/47063\/arabic-taster-session\">2:00-3:00 \u2013 Arabic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/47064\/mandarin-taster-session\">3:00-4:00 \u2013 Mandarin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/47065\/japanese-taster-session\">4:00-5:00 \u2013 Japanese<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/47066\/russian-taster-session\">5:00-6:00 \u2013 Russian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The taster sessions are for beginners and no previous experience of any of the languages is required. You will gain some understanding of key traditions, learn and pronounce a range of simple key words, engage in basic everyday communication, find out how introduce yourself in the language, learn simple greetings and farewell phrases.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/language-centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.kent.ac.uk\/language-centre<\/a> or email <a href=\"mailto:languages@kent.ac.uk\">languages@kent.ac.uk.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Language Centre are offering free online taster sessions in Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese and Russian on Wednesday 3 March 2021: 2:00-3:00 \u2013 Arabic 3:00-4:00 \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/12\/03\/interested-in-learning-a-new-skill-why-not-learn-a-language\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":13584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237575,124],"tags":[237611,237612],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583"}],"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\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13586,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions\/13586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}