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…
Read More 
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…
Read More 
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…
Read More 
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?
How about doing the click in celebration of Human Rights Day?
On 23 February, the Minister of Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthwethwa, announced new names for some cities and towns in the Eastern Cape. Among them are Port Elizabeth, now Gqeberha;…
Read More 
Podcast translation to support multilingual online learning – examples
The SU Language Centre’s Interpreting Service offers a podcast translation service to lecturers wanting a professional and time-effective way of making online lecture content available in more than one language.
Free English classes
We’re offering a week of free, in-person English language classes as part of our Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) programme to anyone whose first language is not English or Afrikaans.
Learn to speak Afrikaans with us
Would you like to be able to chat to your colleagues in Afrikaans once we’re all back on campus? As Madiba had noted so aptly, when you talk to someone in their language, chances are that you will speak to their hearts
A wall of remembrance for Pumlani
It is with the utmost shock and sadness that we heard the news on Sunday 6 December that Pumlani Sibula had passed away. He had been recovering from Covid-19 at…
Read More 
So, what does the Language Centre actually do?
The Language Centre is a vibrant hub for students, staff and clients who require language and communication assistance. One of our most important jobs is to help students speak university.…
Read More 