Sentence examples similar to university languages from inspiring English sources

Many university language departments have been squeezed by this concentration.

Nick Byrne, who runs the language centre at the London School of Economics, surveyed university language-centres around Britain.

Though it's difficult to detect in admissions statistics, university language courses are changing, with more opportunities for students to study a language from scratch.

So few young people are learning languages that in 10 years' time as many as 40% of university language departments are likely to close.

So few young people are choosing a languages degree that in the next decade as many as 40% of university language departments are likely to close.

At university, language teachers often tell students to avoid directly translating English phrases word-for-word, but it's only when you're interacting with native speakers in another country that you grasp the common expressions and idioms.

"The priorities were always providing funds for the student union so they could jump up and down and declare their allegiance to the Gaddafi regime," says Hussein al-Ageli, who runs the university language centre.

A number of significant findings – such as the closure of university language departments, less than half of GCSE students studying a language and three-quarters of UK adults being unable to speak any of the 10 most important foreign languages – have brought the country's language issue into sharp focus.

"The changes are meaningful but still not sufficient," is how Burhan Senatalar, a Turkish professor at Bilgi University in Istanbul, long involved in Kurdish relations, described the climate in light of gestures like the state-run television station and private university language instruction.

Despite the recent closures of university language departments, there are still plenty of institutions offering courses in the modern classics - French, Spanish, German, Italian - as well as those considered niche a decade a go - Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese, and some of the African languages, such as Swahili.

Chris Hamnet is professor of geography at King's College London In 2006 the Observer published a letter signed by 50 directors of university language centres asking the government to consider making a foreign language compulsory again for 14 to 16 year-olds.