Learn a new language with IWLP
28 February 2024
Staff and students are invited to give learning a new language a go at a taster session on Monday 4 March 2024.
The Institution Wide Language Programme (IWLP) offers optional modules in ten different languages to everyone at the University, including staff. Classes are small, friendly and interactive, and you will use the language from your first day in the classroom.
The half hour language tasters have been arranged to give staff and students a chance to try it out before signing up for a full module in the new academic year.
Taster session timetable
No registration required, just pop along. All sessions take place at Room G04, Henley Business School, Whiteknights campus.
- British Sign Language: 11:00 - 11:30
- French: 11:30 - 12:00
- German: 12:00 - 12:30
- Japanese: 12:30 - 13:00
- Italian: 13:00 - 13:30
- Arabic: 13:30 - 14:00
- Modern Greek: 14:00 - 14:30
- Russian: 14:30 - 15:00
- Chinese (Mandarin): 15:00 - 15:30
- Spanish: 15:30 - 16:00
About IWLP
IWLP offers ten languages at multiple levels, so you can start a new language from scratch or continue a language you have already started.
The classes are three on-campus hours a week: one 1-hour session and one 2-hour session. These take place within usual working hours (09:00 - 18:00) over both semesters.
As a staff member, you will be a non-credit student and will need to pay a fee, unless you are able to receive funding from your department or School. To enrol, see the information on our How to Apply page. Enrolments open in September 2024.
Leanne Hayward, Senior Programme Administrator in Henley Business School, studied Spanish through the programme. She said: “I had been trying to learn Spanish on/off for several years and after hearing that it was possible to take a language as a staff member with IWLP, I was keen to give it a go!
“The sessions were informative and fun and I found learning within a group environment motivational. I took the learning more seriously and made progress much faster than when I had previously been self-teaching.
“If you are interested in learning a language and you are able to work the sessions around your work timetable, then I would strongly encourage you to sign up.”
If you have any questions, please email iwlp@reading.ac.uk.