This year, SU joins the EUTOPIA Alliance Languages Week from 2 to 5 March 2025 to celebrate languages, culture and diversity across the world.
Celebrating women in Women’s month: Faika’s trip to Tarragona in Spain
Faika at the BIP Faika Haroun, an Academic and Professional Literacies lecturer at the Language Centre, had the privilege of visiting the Roviira i Virgili University (URV) from 9 to…
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Language Day 2025
About Language Day Language Day is hosted every two years at Stellenbosch University (SU). It is an opportunity for SU staff and students to learn from each other and to…
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What has the Language Centre been up to from May to July 2025?
Each quarter, we submit content to be considered for the SU Management Report to Senate and Council. We thought we’d also share here what the Language Centre has been up…
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Feel at home in South Africa. Learn the language. Live the culture.
Each semester, the SU Language Centre partners with the International Office’s Global Education Programme to offer three flagship language courses to visiting international students. During the first semester of 2025,…
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Thoughts on the book Africa Is Not a Country, in celebration of Africa Day
In Africa Is Not a Country, author Dipo Faloyin challenges the simplistic and stereotypical portrayals of Africa by emphasising its vast diversity – 54 countries, thousands of languages, and a…
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Ten years of Afrikaans language and culture for Dutch speaking exchange students: An interview with Sen Joostens
Sen Joostens completed our Afrikaans language and culture course for Dutch-speaking students in 2020 while he was an exchange student at SU from Belgium. Today, he facilitates Afrikaans language learning…
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Let’s talk language freedom in celebration of Freedom Day
On 27 April, South Africa commemorates Freedom Day, marking both the anniversary of the first democratic elections in 1994 and the introduction of the new (interim) Constitution, which guaranteed equal…
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Language, a human right: Human Rights Day 2025
On Friday March 21, we celebrate Human Rights Day in South Africa – six decades after the events at Sharpeville on the same day in 1960 ensured that this date…
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Languages matter! International Mother Language Day 2025
Languages carry the traditions, histories and identities of the people who speak them. When a language disappears, a unique way of thinking, storytelling and understanding the world is lost forever. Friday 21 February marks the 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day (IMLD), a worldwide annual commemoration to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and advance multilingualism. Do you know what happened on 21 February 1952 when Bengali students in, at the time, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) rallied for the recognition of Bengali as an official language?
