{"id":8284,"date":"2018-01-26T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2018-09-19T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T09:55:21","slug":"modern-languages-event-to-aid-language-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/01\/26\/modern-languages-event-to-aid-language-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Languages event to aid language learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a> is organising a language exchange event,\u00a0open to all students at Kent, to be held on Thursday 8 February 2018 at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wanted to practice the language you are currently\u00a0learning with a native speaker? On the other hand, would you like to practice your mother tongue, if you spend most of your time only speaking English? Or maybe you&#8217;d like the opportunity to help teach a student a language\u00a0in which you are already fluent?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve thought &#8216;yes&#8217; to any of these questions then the tandem language exchange is for you.<\/p>\n<p>The Tandem Language Exchange provides students at the University of Kent with the opportunity to improve their language skills by bringing together people who speak different languages to share their passion and\u00a0knowledge in an informal way.\u00a0The Department of Modern Languages teaches French, German, Spanish, Catalan, and Italian, although the event welcomes speakers\/learners of other languages to pair up wherever possible.<\/p>\n<p>Tandem Language Exchange\u00a0is a\u00a0great way to meet new\u00a0people at the University of Kent and improve a language outside of the classroom.\u00a0After we have paired you up,\u00a0you will\u00a0agree the time, place and how often you want to meet.\u00a0Whatever your language level is, all you need is the enthusiasm to learn and practise\u00a0a foreign language, and to meet people who come\u00a0from across the world.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see the event page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=30426\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=30426<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Modern Languages is organising a language exchange event,\u00a0open to all students at Kent, to be held on Thursday 8 February 2018 at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/01\/26\/modern-languages-event-to-aid-language-learning\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":8285,"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\/8284"}],"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=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}