{"id":4960,"date":"2015-09-24T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T10:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2015-09-24T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T10:57:59","slug":"language-fair-for-new-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/09\/24\/language-fair-for-new-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Language fair for new students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/index.html\">School of European Culture and Languages<\/a>\u00a0(SECL) will be holding a language fair to showcase the range of languages that students can learn as \u2018wild\u2019 modules while at University. At the event, staff from SECL will be representing Ancient Greek, Arabic, Danish French, German, Italian, Latin, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The fair will be held tomorrow,\u00a0Friday 25 September.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing a foreign language increases your employability and improves your transferable skills. The University of Kent offers a wide variety of languages that you can take as \u2018wild\u2019 modules, or even as extra-curricular modules. The first half of the event will showcase why learning a language is so important, hosting an interactive quiz (bring your smartphone or tablet) and giving information on the languages you can take as \u2018wild\u2019 modules (for credits or as an extra). During the second half, representatives of all languages will be present to answer any questions.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held form 10am until 12pm in Lecture Theatre 1, Darwin College. For more details, please see the page here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=14834&amp;view_by=month&amp;date=20150918&amp;category=&amp;tag=http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=14834&amp;view_by=month&amp;date=20150918&amp;category=&amp;tag=\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0School of European Culture and Languages\u00a0(SECL) will be holding a language fair to showcase the range of languages that students can learn as \u2018wild\u2019 modules &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/09\/24\/language-fair-for-new-students\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":4961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960"}],"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\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/4963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}