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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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?
Languages Week 2025 at SU, with something for all students and staff
This year, SU joins the EUTOPIA Alliance Languages Week from 3 to 7 March 2025 to celebrate languages, culture and diversity across the world.
Wellness loves company
It’s that time of year again when our diaries start filling up with end-of-year gatherings and events. If just looking at your calendar triggers an onset of prospective socialisation fatigue, we have some advice!
Freedom Day reflections: Language, expression and responsibility
Spiderman hit the nail on the head when he said something to the effect of “with great power comes great responsibility”. The same applies to freedom, as Eleanor Roosevelt rightly…
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