Intensive courses: learn an Oriental language before summer

14 April 2025

  • Continuing education

  • Training

Inalco is offering beginners two intensive training courses with qualified and experienced teachers. These small-group courses will run from June 6 to July 5, 2025 for the distance learning sessions, and from June 30 to July 4, 2025 for the face-to-face sessions at Inalco.
Registration is open from April 14 to May 18, 2025.
Mur des langues enseignées à l'Inalco, Pôle des langues et civilisations
Mur des langues enseignées à l'Inalco, Pôle des langues et civilisations © Sonia Leconte / Inalco‎

Intensive introductory face-to-face or distance courses (30h)

Level 1.1 (absolute beginner) and level 1.2 (false beginner)

Learn literal Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Japanese, Persian, Russian, Swahili, Czech, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, or any other language taught in initial training at Inalco subject to a minimum number of trainees.
The course will take place over a full week face-to-face or over 5 consecutive weekends remote.

In face-to-face, from June 30 to July 4, 2025 from 10am to 5pm, i.e. 6 hours per day on site at Inalco.
In remote, from June 6 to July 5, 2025, Fridays from 6pm to 8:30pm and Saturdays from 9:30am to 1pm on Zoom.

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Distance dialect intensive courses (25h)

For complete beginners

Initiate yourself in Arabic dialects (Algerian, Egyptian, Moroccan or Syrian-Lebanese) or Ukrainian from June 6 to July 5, 2025 subject to a minimum number of trainees: Friday evenings from 6pm to 8pm and Saturday mornings from 9:30am to 12:30pm.
The course will take place in small groups (9 to 15 participants) and entirely remotely on Zoom.

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