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EUniWell courses and training catalog

Sustainable development, gender equality, language practices...
Registration closes January 16

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Multilingual workshop on artificial intelligence in language teaching

Jury call - Inalco student prize for manga

This prize will be awarded as part of the 9th Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature

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Inalco multilingual short story competition

Submit your work online before February 3, 2026, 11:59 pm (Paris time)

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Discover the languages taught at Inalco

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amharic berber comorian hausa malagasy manding fula soninke swahili wolof yoruba
burmese bislama cebuano cham drehu filipino ilocano indonesian - malaysian khmer lao mon siamese tahitian tai lu vietnamese
oceanic languages
algerian arabic literal arabic literal arabic literal arabic moroccan arabic syro-lebanese arabic tunisian arabic egyptian arabic hassaniya suret
cantonese chinese taiwanese
korean
modern hebrew judeo-arabic judeo-spanish judeo-spanish yiddish
bengali hindi nepali urdu romani sinhalese tamil tibetan telugu
japanese
russian
armenian azeri georgian kurdish mongolian ossetian uzbek uyghur pashto persian qazaq tatar turkish
albanian bosnian croatian serbian bulgarian belarusian estonian finnish modern greek hungarian latvian lithuanian macedonian udmurt polish romanian slovak slovenian sorbian czech ukrainian
guarani inuktitut maya nahuatl quechua

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