By the time this edition of Polyglot reaches you, events may have moved on – as I write, we are advising students about their situation in the various regions of the globe to which their Year Abroad takes them. Travelling is an integral part of life as a Modern Linguist, and education offers opportunities to acquire skills, knowledge and experience.
Shayon Mukherjee is reading Russian and French at St Edmund Hall. He has enjoyed his time in Perm as part of his year out.
Emily Balkwill (Somerville) has taken up the challenge of learning Catalan and is enjoying the language and culture.
Karolina Watroba talks about working at UNIQ as a Student Ambassador
Kate Osment (St Anne’s) looks back on a year as a Student Ambassador for Languages
Eve Bennett is in her second year at LMH reading German and Spanish but might not even have applied had it not been for UNIQ.
Dr María del Pilar Blanco (Spanish, Trinity) writes about some of the recent visitors to the Faculty.
James Hughes, a 1st year undergraduate in French at Lincoln, reports on how Oxford students have been at the forefront of promoting contemporary French literature in the United Kingdom.
Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA, President of the RSL, read French and Italian at Oxford in the 1960s. This is the speech she gave at the Goncourt Royaume-Uni ceremony on December 13 2020.