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Can you do Modern Languages at Oxbridge without doing English Lit or History

Hi i'm wanting to do Modern Languages at Cambridge and many sites recommend doing history or English lit as well as the language A-level. Are these necessary? I am going to do French and German A-level. :smile: Also please could you say what A-levels you all did. Thanks x
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Hi i'm wanting to do Modern Languages at Cambridge and many sites recommend doing history or English lit as well as the language A-level. Are these necessary? I am going to do French and German A-level. :smile: Also please could you say what A-levels you all did. Thanks x


What does Cambridge itself say? Perhaps that's more important than other "sites"...
http://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/modern-and-medieval-languages#entry-requirements

And a couple of Colleges
Trinity https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/modern-and-medieval-languages/
Clare http://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/Modern-and-Medieval-Languages/

No mention of needing History or EngLit....

:smile:

What A-levels ARE you studying?

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MML Student here - did French, Maths and Geography as my A-Levels, so no. English lit might help when you get there just in terms of confidence because it is a fairly literature heavy course vs some other unis, but you often also cover literature in your language A-Level (depends on school). It's certainly not necessary to have that though (several linguists don't have it at A-Level, and certainly no-one I know of in my year in college!) - don't do it at A-Level if there are other subjects you'd enjoy more (and would do better in!).

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