Language Courses
Dive into the multilingual world of SEA-EU, where over 90% of students bring English skills, and nearly half are familiar with Spanish, French, and German. While Polish and Croatian expand our linguistic horizons, we’re enhancing language learning opportunities across the alliance. Following the addition of new partners in 2022, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese were added to our pool of languages. With courses in national languages and specialised programs, we’re committed to broadening linguistic competencies, embracing Croatian, French, German, Maltese, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Italian and English, enriching our community’s global communication and cultural understanding.
Virtual Tandem Language Exchange
The SEA-EU Virtual Tandem Language Exchange is a program that pairs participants with native or near-native speakers for one-on-one language practice, enhancing speaking and listening skills.
What are the benefits of participating in our SEA-EU Virtual Tandem Language Exchange?
- You can improve your speaking and listening skills hands-on.
- You have access to native speakers from across the SEA-EU Alliance.
- You get to define what you want to learn, when and how … flexibly.
- You have the option of meeting your partner virtually as well as physically, depending on your location.
- You can get to make friends and learn about a new culture.
- And most importantly: Just have fun!
Virtual Language Courses
The SEA-EU Virtual Language Courses is an activity based on the principle of reciprocity. Below, we list courses offered by each SEA-EU partner university to participants from other partner universities.
We strengthen our alliance by coordinating and maintaining an up-to-date list of language courses. Thereby, SEA-EU students and staff can obtain centrally all the information needed for enrolment into these online courses. The list is updated regularly as new courses become available.
Conditions of enrolment:
- The course offers are meant for SEA-EU Alliance Universities’ students and staff: Registration is only considered if made with a valid institutional email address.
- No ECTS credits will be awarded.
- A certificate of participation will be issued, upon attendance to >75% of the course.
- An evaluation of the course by participants is appreciated at the end.
- Registration is binding.
- No guaranteed spots.
We strongly encourage participants to self-assess their current language skills and check the course content description and/or learning outcomes of each course prior to registration.
New Virtual Language Courses
Portuguese Language (A1.2)
Target group: SEA-EU Alliance Universities’ staff
Total workload: 30 hrs
Register: 24th April 2025
More info
ACADEMIC YEAR
2024/2025
COURSE AIMS
The course will focus mainly on communication in academic context.
LANGUAGE TAUGHT
Portuguese A1.2
WORKLOAD
30h
Remote learning
PRE-REQUISITES
Portuguese A 1.1
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOME
By the end of this course, participants should be able to improve
their skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) to interact in new
situations while using new grammatical and communicative
structures (near future, prepositions, pronouns) and those previously
learnt (present simple, present continuous, prepositions, pronouns,
etc) to describe people and places, to talk about future plans,
movement and transport, and to write context-driven short texts
METHODOLOGY
Participant/content-centred learning approach. Communicative
language activities: reception, interaction, production.
SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES (ADAPTED FROM CEFR (2020)):
Requesting information (directions, location, transports, shopping).
Reading and interpreting simple and brief information and
announcements in public spaces (airports, train stations, shopping
centres)
Talking about future plans, hobbies and travel
Locating objects, people and places in space.
Describing individuals, objects, situations and places
START-END DATE
5 May – 6 June
CLASSES
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10h-12h CET
French - beginner
Target group: SEA-EU Alliance Universities’ staff and students
Total workload: 20+ hrs
Register: before 20th January 2025
More info
Course content and/or learning outcomes (What can participants expect?)
1. Introducing yourself, spelling names and nationalities
2. Numbers 0-100, including phone numbers
3. Understanding a timetable: days of the week, time
4. Finding your way around town / campus
5. Buying essential things (transport tickets or food)
Language of instruction: French (and English if needed)
Pre-requisites (Any prior knowledge?): None
When will the course be delivered?
One 2-hour class per week (Tuesdays) from Tue. 28 th Jan. to Tue. 8 th April 2025 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm
No class on Tue.18 th Feb. 2025.
Total Workload (hours): 20h + self-study
Cost for the participant: 0,00 €
Size of class: limit per SEA-EU partner 20 students (evenly shared between partner universities)
Specific target group: Students and staff
Technical requirements: Video conferencing (Zoom and Discord), word processor, microphone (headphones if possible) and camera
Name of instructor/teacher: Honorio FLORES GARCIA
Affiliation of instructor/teacher: Pôle Langues, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Contact for pre-course queries: pole.langues.FLE@univ-brest.fr
Registration link: https://forms.gle/AbTm3rDMytJD9ovD8
Timeline:
Application deadline: Mon. 20 th Jan. 2025 at midnight
When will participants be notified of acceptance? 6 days before beginning – Wed. 22 nd Jan. 2025
When will participants receive connection details? 2- working days before beginning – Fri. 24 th /Mon. 27 th Jan.
