Short Courses in Modern Languages

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The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies will run language and culture courses alongside the 2025-26 academic year, in the following languages (click the link button to access the individual course information):

Arabic
Bulgarian
Croatian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Ukrainian

The short evening courses will commence in autumn and are offered at levels ranging from beginner to lower intermediate to advanced (subject to minimum and maximum registration numbers). Our classes take place in person in a small classroom setting.

Duration

Each course runs for a total of 22 weeks (a 2-hour class once per week) spread over two terms – Autumn (commencing in late September or early October) and Winter/Spring (commencing in January).

Time and Venue

All classes will take place in the evening on Trinity College’s campus in Dublin city centre. Learners will receive dates, times and venue information closer to the course commencement date.

Course fees

The fee is €660 for the 22-week course. This fee is non-refundable once the course has commenced. 

Registration and payment

All courses are offered subject to minimum and maximum registration numbers.

Learners must be 18 years of age or older to enrol in the short courses offered by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies.

Participation in the short course does not include access to the Trinity Library or other student services.

Accreditation

Our short courses are designed to empower learners to explore or improve competence in another language. These short courses are not Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited.

These evening courses are developed in accordance with the provisions of the Common European Framework of Reference for Language skills (CEFR). https://europass.europa.eu/en/common-european-framework-reference-language-skills

Payment

Payments should be made securely via PayPal on the relevant course web page.

Once your payment is received, you will subsequently receive a confirmation email from the School’s Short Courses Administrator, with instructions to finalise your registration.

Please note: Owing to staff annual leave during the summer period, you may experience some delay in receiving the full application form if you pay the course fee between late July to mid-August. Please be assured that payments will be processed and course places allocated in the order they are received.