Is there a list anywhere of degrees with ab initio languages, i.e French/Spanish?

Scottish unis will let you do them ab initio, the ancient Scottish uni's (St.Andrews, Glasgow, Ed, Aber) allow you to take 3 subjects in first year and second year so you could take both Spanish and French AND an extra subject, then even graduate with joint honours in Spanish and French if you wished. Also, Newcastle, Liverpool, Leicester, Lancaster but most unis that are (I don't know how to put this without sounding like a complete ****) lower down the uni rankings will allow you entry for ab inito. Just have a look on their websites. e.g. Hull, Reading, Aberystwyth, Bangor.

No there is no official list. What exactly do you want to study? You won't be able to study both beginners French and beginners Spanish at any university. Not many universities do ab initio French, some do, you will need to do some research to find them.



You can't do beginners French at St Andrews, Liverpool, Reading, Aberystwyth or Bangor. You can't do beginners Spanish at Aberystwyth or Bangor either. You need at least a GCSE (grade B) in French to do French at Edinburgh. Hull and Lancaster both offer beginners French/Spanish but you need to have an A level in another language.

I'd recommend Spanish: it's pretty much phonetic to read, and has fewer grammar rules than French, plus you have the advantage of relevance throughout South America.

Thanks!

I can already read most Spanish I see, I just can't speak it, and I need to practice my listening as well. I'd like to learn both languages at some point but it does make more sense to me to start with the 'easier' language, as my friends doing A-Level French like to call it.

I read both Spanish and French at uni: relatively, Spanish was a doddle.

Yep. I can read and write in Spanish but I just need to get over the initial embarrassment of speaking it, especially with an extremely thick scouse accent as well.

Just go for it: it's an uninhibited language and culture.