The Language Centre questions

I'd quite like to learn French to a decent standard while studying an unrelated degree. Does anyone have any experiences of the language centre? I can't believe it's free! How far could I progress in three years? I've only done GCSE.

I tried contacting them today but the phone number goes to answering machine and the email doesn't seem to work :/

I've not used it, but I've seen the price list, and I think it's only free if you take it as modules for your course - don't quote me on that though; best to contact them and ask. In three years though? You could progress to a very high standard if you ask me. The courses are run in a number of levels, and one set of evening sessions should take you to about A-Level standard I think - again, don't quote me!

(Normally I'd have all this information to hand, but I can't access the UoN website :/)

It's a Bank Holiday today, so unless you need Security, drop the phone Well, it's Tuesday now, so try after 9am sometime The email should work though - do you get an error or an email back?

Thanks for the info.

I did edit the post afterwards to include some more info on progression, what stage you should start at, and the costs.

I'll see about getting the email address looked into for you Did you get that reply email very quickly after sending the email?

Yes, very quickly, in fact I got the reply 2 minutes before I sent the initial email according to google mail

I also was sent that automated e-mail back when I tried to contact them!

I'd quite like to learn French to a decent standard while studying an unrelated degree. Does anyone have any experiences of the language centre? I can't believe it's free! How far could I progress in three years? I've only done GCSE.

I tried contacting them today but the phone number goes to answering machine and the email doesn't seem to work :/

I think it said that it was only free if you do it as part of your degree. As far as I know, extra learning does cost - I want to take a language and I'm pretty sure it's going to cost me. But I think it said you could do 1 part in one term (roughly). So by the end of three years, you'd be on level 3, part 2 - which is supposed to be rather fluent, as far as I know. (I'm assuming you'd continue the whole time and pass any exams they may have, haha).

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Correct. Unless you're taking it as part of your degree programme, the cost for all the language courses I saw in the price sheet was £90 per semester, and you typically take a part in a semester, two parts to a level. So yeah, if you're taking a 3-year degree programme, you could go from Level 2, to Level 5, which is a very high standard

Wow, I got something right :O -shocked-
Haha, but is it only 90? (I say "only" rather loosely there). I thought it was £110 for 10 sessions?

£90 for students.
£110 to anyone else.

£90 for students.
£110 to anyone else.

still expensive, I can't take a language module as an option and I really want to improve my German or French. Don't know what to do...

Ah, I see, thanks! I was thinking of doing it when I thought it was £220 for a year so woo! That's 40 quid off if I still decide to do it :]

Tarwe@ Yeah, it is expensive. But I'm thinking of doing Japanese and 90 quid is a good price for that.

It is, but then prices for courses like this in community colleges would be even higher (or they are at my local colleges), and in the Language Centre, you're being taught by experts in the field, as well as having a very large range of people and resources to pull up if you need help.

Although yeah, it is still expensive, I agree. The alternative would be to pick up some audio books and such off Amazon I suppose.

Thanks for the info.

I also was sent that automated e-mail back when I tried to contact them!

Both, the correct email address uses a hyphen (-) rather than a period (.) in the middle of the address. You can email the Language Centre by clicking the link at the bottom of their web pages @ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Language-Centre/index.aspx

If you spot the old email with the dot in at any point, feel free to give me a shout and it can be changed