Meet our English teachers!
Meet our English portfolio! Our teachers are all experts in teaching English as a second language and thrive in seeing their students reach new limits. The English portfolio aims to…
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Africa Day 2023: Our Africa, our future
The practice of interpreting from one language to another on the African continent, as elsewhere, goes back thousands of years. In many African societies, the professional linguists or praise singers belonged to a long line of gifted multilingual orators …
So many kinds of freedom
“I never even knew that such a kind of personal freedom existed, because I had never experienced it before.” In celebration of Freedom Day on 27 April, a Belgian exchange students shares her thoughts on freedom with us, originally in Afrikaans, but translated into English below.
Mother language, heart language
Mother Language Day: A day dedicated to the language in which our very first thoughts were verbalised – that’s a world we can believe in. We’re so different, but this…
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Guide for lecturers: Introduction to real-time online interpreting
Calling all lecturers: This short video explains how you can easily use real-time online interpreting. Follow this step-by-step guide for an MS Teams set-up.
English language specialist to visit the Intensive English portfolio next year
The Language Centre will be visited by an English language specialist from America in 2023! On Friday 28 October, two staff members from the Language Centre (LC), Dr Arné Binneman and…
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Why do translators translate?
In celebration of International Translation Day on 30 September, we’ve approached a few of the translators with whom the Language Centre collaborates to share with us why they do the…
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Creative ways to give your invites a multilingual look and feel
The Language Centre’s mandate to the University is to promote multilingualism and provide language support. The Language Centre therefore strives to embody a multilingual mindset and to share this mindset…
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Mother Language Day 2022: Let’s look beyond our own language
We celebrate International Mother Language Day on 21 February each year. It is appropriate to take time on that day to celebrate that first language; the one that allowed…
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A musing on the freedom language brings
Imagine a world without language. Is that even possible to imagine? Isn’t language so intertwined with thinking that it’s no use trying to think if you don’t think in language? How would you access your own thoughts and communicate them if it’s not encoded in some kind of language?
