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Every European citizen trilingual?
Leiden University linguist Lisa Cheng speaks two Chinese languages, as well as English and Dutch. She is a strong supporter of the European Commission's wish that every European citizen learns to speak several languages. ‘Speaking three languages is not that difficult.’
- Dutch SPOC 1B
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International Translation Day 2024
Lecture, Discussion
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Conference Anglo-Dutch Relations (6-8 January 2022, Oxford)
Contacts between English and Dutch speakers had a profound impact on the literary landscape and book culture of England and the Low Countries. This conference crosses conventional chronological, linguistic, geographical and disciplinary boundaries to explore the cultural history of relations between…
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A podcast about the sound of silence
Pianist and radio producer Guy Livingston has created a podcast series, inspired by the performances of ZINDERING, a five-day festival in the context of Zinderende Stilte (sizzling silence).
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Admission requirements
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives at Leiden University? First, check the admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme Dutch Studies at Leiden University? First, check the admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme Linguistics at Leiden University? First, check the admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme African Studies at Leiden University? First, check the admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme International Studies at Leiden University? First, check the admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme South and Southeast Asian Studies at Leiden University? First, check the admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme Arts, Media and Society at Leiden University? First, check the admission requirements.
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‘Swipen voor een kwarrel’: alumni write about dating jargon
Online dating is hard enough on its own, but these days you also need to know what terms like ‘zombieing’ and ‘prela’ mean. Alumni Milou Andree and Vivien Waszink wrote ‘Swipen voor een kwarrel, a book that discusses all the dating jargon, from the ‘scharrel’ to ‘pigbutchering’.
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‘The Honours Academy is a testing ground’
Pushing the limits and trying things out. The academic year of the Honours Academy started on 10 October and all the speakers encouraged students to jump in at the deep end.
- Russian 2
- Dutch 1
- Dutch 4B
- Dutch 5B
- Dutch 3B
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Hope, destruction, and rebirth: Acts of recovery in gender separatist feminist utopian literature
PhD defence
- Dutch 4A
- Dutch 5A
- Dutch 6A
- Dutch
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The choice is yours! Three introduction weeks for Leiden University students
Leiden or The Hague? Dutch or English? These two questions decide which introduction week new Leiden University students should choose: EL CID, HOP or OWL.
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Reading Group: Things Fall Apart
Course | Reading Group
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COOP #3: The Sociolinguistics of Trigger Words
Lecture
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Classics (BA)
The culture and texts of the classical antiquity are still a source of inspiration for our modern world. In the Dutch-taught Bachelor's programme Greek and Latin Language and Culture you will examine all aspects of the Greek and Roman antiquity. From Homerus to Horatius. From Plato to Cicero.
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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world
Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (XS) grant will enable her to test this hypothesis among the Ethiopian Hamar people. ‘The idea that everyone thinks in geometric shapes is culturally de…
- Spanish 1
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Interview: Physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as KNAW President
On May 28th, Leiden physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has been vice-president since 2016. ‘The base of our universities is eroding.’
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Application
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Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice
This collection brings into conversation several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship which have tended to remain separate over the last two to three decades, a period of steadily increasing scholarly interest in this topic.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Beyond Discourse: An Introduction to Conversation Analysis in Linguistics Research and Elsewhere
Lecture
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Sara Brandellero: 'the news coming from Brazil is chilling'
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called the COVID-19 disease “a minor illness”. With more than 200.000 confirmed corona cases today (May 18) however, Brazil is quickly becoming one of the world’s emerging coronavirus hot spots. How long can Bolsonaro continue to downplay the corona crisis? We asked…
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The Father of Europe
kinderboek leven van Robert Schuman Syrisch meisje
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Assessor talk: Ebrar Kaya succeeds Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens as assessor
Participating in discussions as a student, at an administrative level? Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens has done so for the past two years as assessor of the Faculty of Humanities. Ebrar Kaya will take over the position of assessor starting this September. In this interview we look back and ahead at the asse…
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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Office for International Education and internationalisation
Internationalisation is an important pillar of the Strategic Plan of Leiden University and Leiden Law School. The driving force behind internationalisation at our faculty is the Office for International Education (known as BIO). The Head of BIO is Anette van Sandwijk. Now the current political climate…
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Why biology students and teachers value the E-learning skills platform
Students of the Biology minor course Molecular Design have successfully boosted their skills in collaboration, research and writing with the recently developed E-learning Skills Platform. The biology students and their teachers greatly value the initiative. ‘Sometimes I couldn’t believe what progress…
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other projects will receive funding from the JEDI Fund in 2023.
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EXALT: Excavating Archaeological Literature
We will use Artificial Intelligence to make an intelligent, multilingual search engine for archaeological texts, which will enable new discoveries about the human past.
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Leiden Translation Talk 9 May: Human-technology relations and the permeating presence of machine translation tools
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Subaltern Metropolitan Adventure and Colonial Mediation in Nigeria
Lecture
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Automation, Ethics and Sustainability of Indirect (Pivot) AVT
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Required documents and application
When applying you need to have some documents ready. Make sure you have all of them, or we cannot process your application.
- Persian 6 Plus
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A cross-linguistic investigation of the onset effect in reading aloud: No need to mope about the MOPE
The global population speaks approximately 7,000 different languages and approximately half of the world’s population is bilingual. The unique orthographic characteristics of different languages can help us to gain insight into the seemingly simple process of transforming written to spoken words (i.e.,…
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Translation & editing
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