Short courses in Spring 2025
Our short courses are a great opportunity to either familiarise yourself with a new language or to brush up on your skills if you have studied a language before.
LfA short courses take place in the evening or on Wednesday afternoon and courses focus on improving conversation skills or as an introduction to a new language. They run for eight weeks, from February to April.
We are currently offering courses in the following languages:
- Arabic
- Chinese
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Medieval Latin
- Russian
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
Please note that all courses will run subject to demand.
Short course timetable
Contact us
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Upcoming events
- 21 January at 2:00 pm online - link to sign up
- 5 February at 11:00 pm at PZA/103 (Campus East)
- 5 February at 3:00 pm online - link to sign up
- 13 February at 10:00 am at V/N/045 (Campus West)
Course fees
- £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
Register for an LfA short course
We will be opening registration for short courses in November/December.
Semester 2 Course Dates
- Start: week commencing Monday 10 February 2025
- End: week finishing Friday 4 April 2025
If you would like to receive an email once registration is open you can sign up to our LfA reminder email list below:
Languages for Everyday Communication courses
Beginner, Post-Beginner and Intermediate level language courses. These courses will provide students an opportunity to familiarise with a new language or improve their Beginner-level skills through language use in everyday situations.
- Continuing Chinese for Everyday Communication
- French Everyday Communication beginner
- French Everyday Communication post-beginner
- Continuing French for Everyday Communication
- German Everyday Communication beginner
- German Everyday Communication post-beginner
- Continuing German for Everyday Communication
- Italian Everyday Communication beginner
- Italian Everyday Communication post-beginner
- Continuing Italian for Everyday Communication
- Ukrainian for Everyday Communication beginner
- Spanish Everyday Communication beginner
- Spanish Everyday Communication post-beginner
- Continuing Spanish for Everyday Communication
Specialist Language Courses
We offer selected specialist language courses with a focus on developing communication skills for languages for specific purposes.
Languages for Intercultural Understanding
Beginner-level courses to familiarise with languages with non-Roman scripts. These in-person courses are ideal if you are interested in learning a language that is very different from the language(s) you speak.
Contact us
Department of Language and Linguistic Science