Short Language Courses in 2025/2026

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Our eight-week language courses are available for Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Spanish and Ukrainian. Course types include introductory-level courses that allow you to familiarise with a new language, practice-focused language courses to improve your everyday communication skills and specialist language courses for specific purposes.

Course fees: 16 hours over 8 weeks

• £116 University of York students
• £150 University of York staff/Over 60s/Students from other HE institutions
• £160 University of York alums
• £175 Members of the public

Contact us

Languages for All

• languages@york.ac.uk

Register for an LfA short course

Semester 2 Course Dates

• February to April 2026: w/c 16 February to w/e 24 April

Registration is now closed.

Timetable and Course Descriptors

Please see the LfA Short Courses Timetable, Dates and Fees 2025/26 for an overview of our courses and class times.

Short courses per language (February to April 2026)

Arabic

• Introduction to Arabic: ideal for absolute beginners who wish to familiarise themselves with the Arabic language and Arabic-speaking cultures.

Chinese

• Introduction to Chinese: ideal for absolute beginners who wish to familiarise themselves with the Chinese language and culture.

English

• General English Conversation: ideal for students with at least a B1 level or equivalent in English who wish to improve their speaking and listening skills and their overall ability and confidence to communicate in English.

French

• French Beginners Short Course: ideal for absolute beginners who wish to familiarise with the language for use in everyday communication.

• French Post-Beginners Short Course: ideal for those with some prior knowledge of the language or those who have learnt some French through language learning apps or informally.

German

• German Beginners Short Course: ideal for absolute beginners who wish to familiarise with the language for use in everyday communication.

• German Post-Beginners Short Course: ideal for those with some prior knowledge of the language or those who have learnt some German through language learning apps or informally.

Italian

• Italian Beginners Short Course: ideal for absolute beginners who wish to familiarise with the language for use in everyday communication.

• Italian Post-Beginners Short Course: ideal for those with some prior knowledge of the language or those who have learnt some Italian through language learning apps or informally.

• Italian Pre-Intermediate Short Course: ideal for students who have completed an LfA course or York Language Elective module in Italian at Beginner level and wish to practise and improve their skills further.

Japanese

• Introduction to Japanese: ideal for absolute beginners who wish to familiarise themselves with the Japanese language and culture.

Korean

• Introduction to Korean 1: ideal for absolute beginners who have no knowledge of the Korean language or its alphabet.

• Introduction to Korean 2: ideal for beginner-level learners of Korean who already know the Korean alphabet.

Medieval Latin

• Medieval Documentary Latin: for those interested in familiarising themselves with Medieval Latin through the analysis of Latin language as used in official records and documents from the Middle Ages.

Spanish

• Spanish Beginners Short Course: ideal for absolute beginners who wish to familiarise themselves with the language for use in everyday communication.

• Spanish Post-Beginners Short Course: ideal for those with some prior knowledge of the language or those who have learnt some Spanish through language learning apps or informally.

• Spanish Pre-Intermediate Short Course: ideal for students who have completed an LfA course or York Language Elective module in Spanish at Beginner level and wish to practise and improve their skills further.

Ukrainian

• Introduction to Ukrainian:  ideal for absolute beginners who wish to familiarise themselves with the Ukrainian language and culture.

Contact us

Languages for All

• languages@york.ac.uk