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New "Mediation and interpretation in public services" Master's degree course

Find out more about this course offered within the Translation and Interpreting Master's degree

EUniWell courses and training catalog

Discover the March 2025 selection for Inalco students, administrative staff and researchers

Cycle of careers conferences

Speakers provide information on the career prospects available after completing a diploma course at Inalco

MOOC "Czech Language Contact Kit"

Registration deadline: April 28!

Carte du monde vue de nuit avec les continents éclairés

DECRIPT Project & Consortium

"Dispositif d'Étude des Crises et des Récits cIvilisationnels par la Pluridisciplinarité et les Terrains", winner of the 2024 ANR's call for expressions of interest

Un groupe de personnes portent dans leurs mains des bulles de paroles de couleurs et formes différentes

EUniWell

Since the end of 2023, Inalco has been a member of EUniWell, a European academic alliance dedicated to promoting societal "well-being."

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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 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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