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Comms Lab facilitates public speaking on several platforms

3 September 2018

Comms Lab, Dialogos, Our languages, Recent news

Public speaking is definitely a skill that can be mastered! On 8 August, the Language Centre’s Comms Lab and the Stellenbosch Toastmasters Club joined forces by hosting a demo Toastmasters…

NPIT4 – a conference for finding common ground in communication

26 June 2018

Dialogos, Our languages, Research

There is no nipping NPIT in the bud! This year, the 4th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT4) was held on African soil for the first time. The…

Black Panther clicks away

16 April 2018

Articles in isiXhosa, Dialogos, Our languages, Recent news

There is bad news and good news. The bad news is that you cannot go to Wakanda for a holiday. The good news is that you can learn the language…

AWS a hundred years young!

21 August 2017

Afrikaans courses, Dialogos, Our languages, Recent news

The 11th, comprehensively updated edition of the Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls (AWS), a title that means ‘Afrikaans word list and spelling rules’, was released early in August this year. The…

Capitalisation of titles and proper names in Afrikaans and English: How does it work?

12 June 2017

Dialogos, Our languages, Writing tips

Often people are unsure about the capitalisation of titles in Afrikaans and English. Should it be Prof De Villiers or prof De Villiers? An added headache is the capitalisation of…

Cultural Day: A celebration of connection

12 June 2017

Dialogos, Our languages, Recent news

On 18 May, international students participating in the Language Centre’s Intensive English Programme (IEP) celebrated Cultural Day in a unique and exciting way at the Khaya (Kruiskerk). The United Nations…

The protective power of bilingualism

12 June 2017

Articles in isiXhosa, Dialogos, Language Learning Hub, Our languages

A university in Italy scanned the brains of dozens of patients with Alzheimer’s disease as part of a study. Half of them spoke at least two languages, the other half…

‘U’ or ‘jy’ and ‘jou’: How does one choose in Afrikaans?

14 March 2017

Dialogos, Our languages

The English personal pronoun ‘you’ is an incredibly versatile little word: one could use it to indicate second person singular or plural, and it allows you to hedge your bets…

Savouring five foreign languages

25 November 2016

Our languages

Staff at the Language Centre decided to explore new pastures this year by hosting their first Non-Mother Tongue Day on 27 October: an initiative that forms part of the Centre’s…

Trilingual terminology website launched

3 December 2015

Dialogos, Our languages, Recent news, Terminology

On Monday, 23 November 2015, the isiXhosa portfolio of the Stellenbosch University Language Centre launched its terminology website, with the terms presented in Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa. This site is…