Best places to learn foreign languages in Delhi

Over the years, we've heard about people giving reasons, excuses to not to learn foreign languages. But then, there are also people who have good reasons to study foreign languages.

In this increasingly globalized world, multilingualism has now become perhaps one important key skill to exist for a reason. Also, when a person knows more than one language, it not only helps one to increase his cultural awareness but also gain a profound understanding of his own culture. Other benefits that one may get by learning such languages are communicating with different people, improve memory, problem-solving and critical thinking skills, enhance the ability to multitask and better listening skills.

Learning a language is not easy. It takes time, efforts, persistence, hard work and will power to not quit in between. Some people do it to learn something new, while some learn to increase their job opportunities. Now the question arises, from where can we learn such languages. So if you want to learn a language as a hobby or just to boost up your resume these places in Delhi are going to help you —

Delhi University is the only University in the country where one can pursue courses in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Romanian languages.

Jawaharlal Nehru’s School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies through various departments offer a variety of programmes in different languages. JNU offers Certificate, Diploma, and Advanced Diploma of Proficiency programmes, BA (Hons.), MA and MPhil/PhD programmes in various foreign languages like Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish, etc.

Jamia Millia Islamia through five departments (Faculty of Humanities and Languages, Department of Arabic, Department of Persian, MMAJ Academy of International Studies, for Spanish and Latin American Studies) offers Certificate, Diploma, Advanced Diploma and Degree level course in BA, MA, M.Phil., Ph.D. in different languages. Jamia Millia Islamia is the only University in India where one can learn Central Asian languages such as Kazakhi (Kazakh), Turkemenian (Turkmen), Kyrgyz, Uzbek and Turkish.

IGNOU through Delhi centre also offers few language courses in French, Arabic, Russian, Persian, German, etc.

In Addition, one can also pursue courses in a varied range of Colleges and Universities in NCR region i.e. nearby cities like Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, etc.Several Embassy’s Cultural Centre are also offering a variety of language courses in Delhi. In India, except few like Alliance Française, Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, Camões Institute and Russian Centre for Science and Culture, all have only one centre located in the heart of the capital city i.e. New Delhi.

So why waste your precious time? Go on, learn something new and live every bit of your life.

Article by Bhavya Mehta.