Leeds Language Week: 11th - 15th November 2024

Fantastic language workshops delivered by our Students and Academics in local schools! These workshops will be aimed at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 and could introduce school students to new topics or languages, help them build on their current subjects and support them in developing skills and insight into the university experience.

Online language sessions for students over 16 and teachers, delivered by our expert academic staff at the University. Each session has a different focus and learning outcomes for it's attendees.

New to Leeds, a multilingual poetry competition, Mother Tongue Other Tongue, submit your poetry for a chance to be part of a digital anthology. Entries will be judged by Language Academics from the University of Leeds!

Exploring & Celebrating African Languages’ is a series of interactive in-class presentations that celebrate and explore four African languages spoken by communities in the North East and globally. Find out more...

Sunday 17th of November: Visit the Leeds Chinese Community School for a Chinese language lessons for children aged 5 and above, as well as adults in person.

A collaboration between the University of Leeds and Leeds Libraries. Involving story-telling in foreign languages to the under 5 and cultural talks in the evenings, hosted at Libraries across the city.

Find out more about the competitions, classes and placement tests the Instituto Cervantes is running as part of Leeds Language Week.

Would you like a motivational talk about how important languages are in the workplace? How about a 300% increase in GCSE options for languages this year as achieved at a school in the north of England?
Find out more...

The 38th edition of Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) will take place from 1-17 November 2024 with an epic selection of the best new feature and short films from around the world. You can access the full programme here.