Courses offered (during the semester)
The Language Centre of the University of Bayreuth currently offers courses in 23 languages spoken and signed across all seven continents. You are sure to find the language that is right for you!
For information on courses, course registrations, placement tests and exams, just click on the language you are interested in.
Our languages
Arabic
Learn the fourth largest language in the world and one of the six official languages of the UN.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Bambara
Learn Bambara (Bamanan), a variety of Manding, a dialect continuum spoken in ten countries in West Africa.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Chinese
Learn the world's largest language, with almost one billion first-time speakers, and immerse yourself in a completely different understanding of linguistic structure.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
German
Learn the language of the country where you are studying and the mother tongue of many poets and thinkers.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
English
Learn and improve your knowledge of what is arguably the world's largest and most important lingua franca.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
French
Learn the language of our largest and most important neighbour and trading partner in the European Union.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Italian
Learn the language of the land of art and fashion and one of the Germans' favourite holiday destinations.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Japanese
Learn a language spoken by over 130 million people worldwide, not just in Japan.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Korean
Learn one of the most difficult languages in the world, but one that has gained popularity, not least because of its industry and K-pop.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Norwegian
Learn the official language of Norway, spoken by more than 5 million people.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Polish
Learn one of the largest Slavic languages and the official language of Germany's largest eastern neighbour.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Portuguese
Learn the third largest Romance language, spoken not only in Portugal and Brazil, but also, inter alia, in East Timor.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Russian
Learn the largest Slavic language in the world with over 255 million first and second language speakers.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Spanish
Learn the largest Romance language, which is not only the official language in European and Latin American countries, but also in two African countries.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Swahili
Learn the most important Bantu language, spoken by more than 50 million people in East and Central Africa
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Swedish
Learn the language of IKEA, H&M and Astrid Lindgren, one of the most important Germanic languages.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Turkish
Learn the largest Turkic language, which is not only spoken by 250 million people worldwide, but is also the mother tongue(s) of the largest minority in Germany.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Ukrainian
Learn the language of Europe's second largest country and thus the third largest Slavic language.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
Wolof
Learn Wolof, the language of Senegal, Gambia and Mauritania.
For all information on course registration, placement test and exam click here or on the picture.
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Would you like to learn a language that is not yet offered?
Then contact the head of the Language Centre, Robert Wolf, directly.