Language Work at Part IA and IB
Useful links
- Beginners' Language Courses (Part IA ab initio): Spanish & Portuguese
- Recommended Portuguese Dictionaries and Grammars (all levels)
- Recommended Spanish Dictionaries and Grammars (all levels)
- Part II Language Papers
Part 1 language papers
The Part I language courses provided by the Department are designed to develop your knowledge of and skills in Spanish or Portuguese to a very high level of proficiency (Part I in a language is recognised as an independent qualification in itself), and to prepare you for the advanced study of the culture (and/or languages) of the many Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries as offered in Parts IB and II of the Tripos.
Language work at Part I has been carefully distributed between Part IA and Part IB, with the aim of providing you with a progressive language course taking you to a very high level of competence before you embark on your year abroad. Obviously, the course content for students who are starting Spanish or Portuguese from scratch will be different from the one aimed at students who already have an A-level in one of these languages - please see the ab initio pages for further information: Spanish and Portuguese.
Besides the courses and classes mentioned here, there will be plenty of opportunity for independent study, both in the Language Centre, which has satellite television and self-access language courses, and in our Computer Assisted Language Learning Facility (CALL).
Please see our pages on the Language papers available at Part IA and IB.
