Every year, the Oxford German Network calls all young learners of German to participate in its national German competition, the Oxford German Olympiad. In 2016/2017, they would like to explore German peoples, languages and culture beyond the borders of Germany: their...
Did you know that the shortest story in Spanish is only seven words long? Here it is: ‘Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí’ (Augusto Monterroso, “El dinosaurio”). Write a story in Spanish of not more than 100 words, and send it to...
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford University is looking for budding film enthusiasts in Years 7-11 and 12-13 to embrace the world of French cinema. To enter the competition, students in each age group are asked to re-write the ending of a film in...
Run by SOAS, University of London, the Languages Challenge is now in its third year The Languages Challenge is a collaborative project aimed at students in year 8, 9 & 10. Students have a choice of task and a choice of which languages they use in each of them. The...
The Pushkin State Russian Language Institute is holding a competition with the support of the British Council as a part of the Russia-UK Year of Language and Literature 2016. The competition will be conducted online, in English, from 05 Oct – 15 Dec 2016, on the...
The deadline for entries for this competition has now passed, but we will publish the results as soon as they are available. The European Day of Languages (26 September) is the annual opportunity to reinforce the importance we place languages – all languages...
