Spanish and Beginners German

Spanish is the first language of more than 500 million people across Europe, Latin America, and beyond, carrying with it one of the most varied and vital literary traditions in the world. From the medieval cancioneros and Cervantes's Don Quijote to the poetry of Neruda and García Lorca and the boom novelists of the twentieth century, the Spanish-language cultural inheritance is vast and rewarding. Adding German from scratch opens a second major European tradition, and the combination gives you access to two of the continent's most significant languages in one programme.

At the University of Oxford, this four-year, full-time degree reflects the exceptional intellectual standards and tutorial-based teaching that Oxford is known for. The programme takes your Spanish to the highest level of literary and linguistic sophistication while simultaneously building your German from the beginning, so you will graduate with advanced competence in a language you started from scratch. You will study Spanish and Latin American literature, linguistics, and cultural history in depth, reading texts in their original form and learning to engage with them critically and contextually.

The German strand develops your communicative and linguistic competence progressively, supported by the expert language teaching for which Oxford's modern languages faculty is renowned. A typical entry tariff of 184 UCAS points reflects the programme's demanding academic character.

Oxford's tutorial system means you spend significant time in close, one-to-one or small-group intellectual exchange with specialists, developing your ability to argue, synthesise, and respond to challenge with confidence and precision.

Graduates pursue careers in diplomacy and international organisations, translation and interpreting, journalism, law, education, the cultural sector, and business with significant European or Latin American exposure. The rarity of combining Spanish at an advanced level with German acquired from scratch makes Oxford graduates distinctive. Many proceed to postgraduate study in languages, literature, or area studies.