Italian
If you love the good things in life, then you MUST learn Italian! Italian is a valuable language within the EU and Italy is a leading manufacturer and exporter of quality products, well known world-wide for its cultural heritage and influence. Whether you choose this language for personal reasons, as a pertinent complement to your main subject, or to increase your chances in your future life and career, you can rest assured this experience will be both useful and enjoyable!
Improved career prospects
You will increase your employment prospects.
Additional qualifications
You have the opportunity to gain an extra qualification alongside your degree.
Enhanced experience
You will develop communicative as well as linguistic skills and a better understanding of other cultures.
Increased choice
You have a wide variety of languages and courses to chose from.
And it's fun!
You have the chance to learn in an atmosphere which is professional but also relaxed and enjoyable.
You may choose to enrol for one semester only or take a number of modules for more systematic language learning and the opportunity to achieve an Enhanced Degree Title or a record of achievement on your HEA report.
The Language Centre offers up to 12 levels (stages 1 - 12), from absolute beginner to post A level. It is important to select the appropriate level based on your previous experience. To help you decide please click here for a helpful guide or contact our administration team (languages@keele.ac.uk) who will be happy to discuss this further with you.
These stages are comparable to the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) for further details please see Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Times for classes are dependent on the Keele undergraduate timetable and may be any time between 9.00 am and 7.00 pm Monday to Friday. Times will be available from the beginning of each semester. Please note that a number of language classes will be timetabled on Wednesday afternoons to avoid clashes with core modules.
Every effort is made to minimize timetable clashes for students. However, as each language module caters for students from all years of study and all three subject timetable blocks this is not possible in all cases. If an unresolvable timetable clash occurs your core module takes priority.
What Students Say
Here's what some of our previous students had to say about our Italian Modern Language modules:
"I've really enjoyed the language and module and I felt really welcomed."
"I want to make this clear: I love this module (Italian 2) and I can honestly say that the tutor is one of the best teachers that Keele could ask for."
"It was really good to learn that amount of grammar at the beginning because it makes you feel like you can actually talk even though you haven't studied that much yet."
"I am amazed at how much I have learned in ten short weeks."
"This module was great as expected."