From a teacher’s perspective, one of the best aspects of the workshops offered by the SU Language Centre is the wide variety of students and trainees they attract. Our most recent round of General English workshops are showcasing just that.
A week in the world of lexicography
What does it really take to create a dictionary? To many of us, dictionaries are simply there when we need them, sitting quietly on a shelf or just a quick search away online.
Celebrate our shared humanity at EUTOPIA-SU Languages Week this year
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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Q and A with Dr Schalk van der Merwe in celebration of 10 years of Afrikaans language and culture for Dutch-speaking exchange students
Dr Schalk van der Merwe, extraordinary senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University (SU), has been a regular guest lecturer for several years at the SU Language Centre’s Afrikaans language and culture course for Dutch-speaking students, where he shares and discusses key events from South African history with students in a narrative style. “When it comes to the history and origins of Afrikaans, it is essential to reflect the language’s diversity, and also how it has served as a vehicle for social change,” says Dr Van der Merwe. As part of the course’s 10-year celebrations, we asked him a few questions.
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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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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