Work Experience: a week in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area studies
05/11/2019
The leaves are turning brown, Halloween is fast approaching and one more student comes along, eager to find out what goes on behind the scenes inside a Russell Group University. Hi, I’m Holly and I spent 5 days working at the University of Nottingham, alongside their wonderful CLAS department, which stands for Cultures, Languages and …
University Language Ambassadors – An inspirational strand in UK schools’ language strategy
23/05/2019
It seems that rarely a day goes by without a negative news story about the decline of languages in UK schools (see BBC News, Language learning: German and French drop by half in Schools and The Independent, Britain’s dwindling language skills are a disaster for the country and needs action, MPs warn for recent examples). …
Work experience in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
16/04/2019
Bienvenue! This week, at the University of Nottingham, we certainly received, as the French would say, an ‘acceuil royal’, during our work experience here in the Faculty of Arts. Thanks to the organisation of Tara Webster-Deakin, we’ve had a brilliantly varied week, all whilst getting an insight into the intricacies of the University of Nottingham …
Dr Kathrin Yacavone awarded a prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship
16/10/2018
Kathrin Yacavone, assistant professor in French in the Department of Modern Languagesand Cultures, was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which enables internationally outstanding researchers to pursue an extended period of research in Germany. The fellowship will enable Dr Yacavone to complete her book project Portrait of …
Happy European Day of Languages to all of our students, colleagues and local businesses!
26/09/2018
As part of the Languages for Business team, I’ve been thinking about how we translate the varied and culturally-steeped language of business networking. Is it true that there are only two types of people in the world – those who love networking and those who would rather communicate via messenger pigeon than don a nametag …
My MA in Translation Studies with Interpreting at the University of Nottingham
07/06/2017
I’d always planned to become a translator. The career seemed to fit my abilities and interests well so the die was cast on my academic path. The translation modules I did as part of my undergraduate degree in Modern Language Studies (French, Spanish and Dutch) only whetted my appetite further for continuing my study of …
Goodbye Toulouse
16/06/2016
Last week I left Toulouse, bringing my year abroad to a close. My parents came to pick me up, loaded all my belongings into the car (which seem to have multiplied tenfold since I arrived nine months ago) and off we went. Simple? Far from it. Leaving Toulouse was just like many of my experiences …
Pursuing the Nottingham Advantage Award in France
02/02/2016
Fran McKay, a French and History student, has used her extracurricular work as a teaching assistant in France to pursue the Nottingham Advantage Award alongside her degree, and blogs about her experiences below. The Nottingham Advantage Award is an award-winning scheme that has been developed to help students to participate in activities that develop the …
“Work hard, play hard”: First Year at Nottingham
19/01/2016
“Work hard, play hard.” Never has that old motto been more appropriate than for the first year of studying at the University of Nottingham. Although first year doesn’t count towards your final degree result, it is important to do as well as you can and make sure you give yourself a good platform …
The first year of French and Francophone Studies
18/01/2016
What better way to continue your passion for French than the French and Francophone Studies course at the University of Nottingham? My first year here was incredible. As a straight French student I had the opportunity to study a wide variety of French subjects: French grammar, history, literature, politics, film and translation. Not to mention …
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