About our courses

Evening & Saturday Language Courses

Winter Term - January 2020

Enrolment is now open Winter Term.

Key enrolment dates:

Parts 2 & 3 commencing from Saturday 11 January 2020 must enrol by midnight on Thursday 02 January 2020.

Courses commencing from Saturday 18 January 2020 must enrol by midnight Thursday 09 January 2020.

Studying on one of our Evening or Saturday Language Courses means you have the choice of 26+ languages at a range of levels all taught by experienced teachers who are native speakers of the language.

Standard courses

Classes are held at Strand, Waterloo and Guy’s campuses
Taught once a week on weeknights
One part can be completed in 10 weeks
Complete language level is taught in 30 weeks (45 hours).
For new levels beginning in Winter. Part 2 will be taught in Spring (April 2020) and Part 3 will either be taught as an intensive course in the Summer (July 2020) or will be offered in the Autumn Term (October 2020).

Intensive courses

Classes are held at either Strand or Waterloo campuses
Taught once a week on either a weeknight or Saturday
Class duration: 3 hours
Complete language level taught in 15 weeks (45 hours)
Courses beginning in Winter run from January to May 2020.

Please click the button below for our terms and conditions and how to transfer or withdraw from a course.

*Please note that students who enrol through late enrolment will receive their KEATs access and MLC student card (not required for King's students and staff) during the second week of class.

Terms & Conditions

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Contact Us

mlc@kcl.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7848 2890

Why study a language with us?

Native speaker teachers

3 central London campuses

4 seasonal enrolment windows

26+ languages available to study

Summer courses

Summer courses provide 15 hours of tuition for beginner students. They are usually taught over one weekend or 1 week or 2.5 weeks. The courses are aimed at preparing those who are heading abroad and want to learn the essentials such as greeting, ordering food and asking for directions before their travels begin.

We run a smaller portfolio of languages in the summer, such as:

Arabic
French
Greek
German
Portuguese
Spanish

Free speaking practice

The Language Resources Centre offers free speaking practice for students with a native speaker to improve conversational skills. Our speakers are volunteers and come from the richly diverse King's community.

The LRC also offers a wide variety of resources, workshops and events as well as multilingual learning advisors who are always on hand to help you make the most of the facilities.

Discover the Language Resources Centre

Teaching style

We use the immersion method of language teaching. This means majority of the course will be conducted in the language of study. Our teachers use a communicative approach in class, practising the following four skills:

Speaking
Reading
Listening
Writing

Students engage in interactive language activities, participating in group and pair work according to a syllabus based on systematic grammatical progression.

High quality language tuition

The MLC employs over 100 teaching staff who are native speakers of the language they teach and have in-depth knowledge of language teaching methodology.

Many of our teachers also have expertise in other areas such as journalism, politics, business, international affairs and the health sector.