As the world’s second most spoken language, Mandarin Chinese and its associated cultures have helped to shape the contemporary world in many ways.

This joint honours programme gives you the opportunity to study Chinese while exploring how language works.

Chinese and Linguistics make an excellent joint honours choice by combining the study of:

a language in its cultural, historical and political context
the expression and creation of meaning
Linguistics courses of particular relevance to language students cover:

the speech sounds of the world's languages
variation in the languages of the world
the structure and history of world languages