Less Widely Taught Languages

Not only university students, but anyone aged 17 and over who is interested is welcome to attend the courses!

Arabic Chinese NEW: beginners course from October 2025! Dutch Finnish Greek (Modern Greek) NEW: beginners course from October 2025! Japanese Korean Latin & Ancient Greek Norwegian Next course in summer semester 2026. Persian (Farsi) Quechua Russian Swahili Swedish Turkish Further language course offers at the University of Freiburg

Would you like to learn a language which is not yet offered? Feel free to contact us by telephone or e-mail.

Please contact:

• The Chinese language courses at the Institut für Sinologie are aimed at sinology students. In case there is no suitable offer at the Language Teaching Centre SLI, students of other faculties with prior knowledge may be admitted.
• The Chinese language courses at the Konfuzius-Institut an der Universität Freiburg e.V. are open to the public. No ECTS points can be earned in these courses.
• The Indonesian courses at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology are open to all students of the University of Freiburg. Please enrol via HISinOne. There you will also find all information about the courses.
• Please find more offers on Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic) here: Skandinavisches Seminar
• Please find more offers on Slavic languages (e. g. Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian, Czech, Ukrainian) here: Slavisches Seminar/Sprachen