Languages we support│Ngā reo tautokotia
Find out which languages the Language Learning Centre can help you learn.
Language Learning Centre staff can offer advice and help you find suitable resources to teach yourself your chosen language. If you wish to find out more about taking a language course please contact one of the schools listed below.
Schools and languages offered
- School of Languages and Cultures—French, German, Italian, Samoan, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese
- Te Kawa a Māui—Te Reo Māori
- English Language Institute (School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies)—English as a Second Language
- Deaf Studies Research Unit (School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies)—New Zealand Sign Language
In total we offer resources for the independent study of over 80 different languages and dialects, including all of the following:
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic plus Egyptian and Gulf Arabic dialects)
- Balinese
- Bengali
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Cambodian
- Cantonese
- Cook Islands Māori
- Catalan
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- English
- Fijian
- Finnish
- French
- German (Standard German as well as Swiss German)
- Greek (ancient and modern)
- Gujarati
- Hawaiian
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Lao
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Mandarin Chinese
- Māori
- Mongolian
- Melanesian Pidgin
- Nepali
- Niuean
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazilian and European)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Samoan
- Sanskrit
- Scottish Gaelic
- Serbian
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Tetum
- Thai
- Tibetan
- Tok Pisin
- Tongan
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
- Xhosa
- Yiddish
- Zulu