
Languages and Cultures
Get ready for lift-off with Bun Bang Fai
Bun Bang Fai is an annual rocket festival to mark the start of the crop growing season.
Bun Bang Fai is an annual rocket festival to mark the start of the crop growing season.
I’m a 76-year-old medical journalist, podcaster and jazz musician and here’s why I started studying Mandarin Chinese at SOAS.
Translated literally, Ohanami means ‘looking at flowers’. It’s a unique part of Japanese culture dating back more than a thousand years.
Applications for German, French and Russian are falling, whereas non-European languages- such as Arabic and Japanese – have been experiencing a boom in popularity.
At the end of a 10-week course in Mandarin Chinese, attending for two-hours a week, students could learn around 150 ideographs.