This course allows you to take French or Italian from Beginners level if you wish to. You will divide your time equally between both Italian and French and by the end of the course you will reach an equivalent standard of knowledge and ability in both languages.

At the end of your first year, you will spend three weeks in one of our fully funded Summer Schools where you will be able to immerse yourself in the language and culture you are studying. If you choose to study one of the two languages at beginners level you will spend the summer school in the country of your beginners language. If you are studying two languages at advanced level you may choose which one of those countries to visit.

Throughout the course you will develop your written skills in French and Italian through the production of short pieces of creative writing and other activities such as online language learning and the use of materials taken from French and Italian television and radio, with oral teaching conducted in small groups, mostly by native speakers. We have state-of-the-art language laboratories which can help you learn through interaction with a range of audio and visual media, plus interpreting booths and open access space to study.