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But what's it really like? Philosophy and Modern Languages
Continuing our occasional series of short films about the different degrees available at Oxford that involve modern languages: this week, Philosophy and Modern Languages.
PS. Look out for our 2018 French Film Competition, which will be launching on this blog on December 7th.
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But what's it really like? European and Middle Eastern Languages
Here, in the latest of our occasional series, is another short film about what you can do with modern languages at Oxford. European and Middle Eastern Languages is a popular and fast-growing two-subject "joint school" with modern languages. If you choose to study it, you can combine any one modern language out of French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Czech, Portuguese or Greek with any one Middle Eastern language out of Arabic, Hebrew, Persian or Turkish. French and Arabic is a popular combination. Students taking it can use their options in each course to investigate the long and sometimes fraught history between France and Arabic-speaking North Africa and explore the wealth of connections between French and Arab cultures.
Here are tutors and students talking about the course:
There's more information here if you're interested, and you can find out about all our courses here.
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Applying to study modern languages, Why study French?
But what's it really like? History and Modern Languages
March 2, 2016 simonrkemp	Leave a comment
Next in our occasional series of short films about Oxford's various courses with modern languages comes one of our most popular combinations: History and Modern Languages. Click the video below to see students and tutors talk about the course.
You can find out all the details of the course and how to apply for it here, and details of all our courses here.
But what's it really like? English and Modern Languages
November 4, 2015 simonrkemp	Leave a comment
English and Modern Languages is the most popular of our 'joint schools' courses that combine a modern language with another subject, and the one for which places are most hotly contested. You can do English with French, or with any one of eight other languages: Spanish, Russian, German, Celtic, Czech, Greek, Italian or Portuguese. The last four of those you can also start from scratch on the course. Full details of what the course involves and how you can apply for it are here, and below is a short film by those who study and teach on the course to tell you all about it:
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But what's it really like? Modern Languages and Linguistics
As well as studying a modern language on its own or with another language offered by the faculty here, you have the option to take a degree in one of the six 'joint schools' combining modern languages with another humanities subject. If you're interested in how languages work, how they evolve over time, how we acquire them as children and what happens in our brains as we speak and listen, then you ought to seriously consider a degree combining modern languages and linguistics. Here's the short film made by Oxford University to introduce the subject:
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Applying to study modern languages, Student life, Why study French?
But what's it really like? The Modern Languages Course
March 25, 2015 simonrkemp	Leave a comment
Recently, Oxford University decided to make short films about every single one of its undergraduate courses, featuring students and tutors talking about what the course is about, and what it's like to study it. They give a much better sense of what the courses are really like than you can get from a prospectus. There's one video on modern languages, and six more about the 'joint schools' combining modern languages with English, history, linguistics, philosophy, Classics, or a Middle-Eastern language. I'll post each of them over the course of the next few months, but for starters, here's the modern languages film:
The full playlist of videos for all our courses is here.