Newcastle University

====School of Modern Languages====
The School of Modern Languages consists of five sections: East Asian (which includes Japanese and Chinese); French; German; Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies; and Translating & Interpreting Studies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/ |title=School of Modern Languages |publisher=Newcastle University |access-date=21 August 2013 |archive-date=30 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830111456/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Six languages are taught from beginner's level to full degree level ‒ Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese ‒ and beginner's courses in Catalan, Dutch, Italian and Quechua are also available. Beyond the learning of the languages themselves, Newcastle also places a great deal of emphasis on study and experience of the cultures of the countries where the languages taught are spoken. The School of Modern Languages hosts [[North East England]]'s only branches of two internationally important institutes: the [[Camões Institute]], a language institute for Portuguese, and the [[Confucius Institute]], a language and cultural institute for Chinese.

The teaching of modern foreign languages at Newcastle predates the [[#History|creation of Newcastle University]] itself, as in 1911 Armstrong College in Newcastle installed [[Albert George Latham]], its first professor of modern languages.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/assets/documents/History.pdf |title=School of Modern Languages History |publisher=Newcastle University |access-date=23 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514084351/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/assets/documents/History.pdf |archive-date=14 May 2012 }}</ref>

The School of Modern Languages at Newcastle is the lead institution in the North East [[Routes into Languages]] Consortium<ref name="routeslang">{{cite web |url=https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/northeast |title=North East |publisher=Routes into Languages Consortium |access-date=21 August 2013 |archive-date=21 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721153957/https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/northeast |url-status=live }}</ref> and, together with the [[Durham University]], [[Northumbria University]], the [[University of Sunderland]], the [[Teesside University]] and a network of schools, undertakes work activities of discovery of languages for the 9 to 13 years pupils.<ref name="routeslang"/> This implies having festivals, Q&A sessions, language tasters, or quizzes organised, as well as a web learning work aiming at constructing a web portal to link language learners across the region.