By SELCS Language Co-ordinators (Marie Fournier, Anne Grydehøj, Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir, Joana Jacob Ramalho, Christina Massaccesi, Marga Navarrete, Mazal Oaknín, Dagmar Paulus, Christine Sas)

Some students may feel that the lockdown has bereft them of essential face to face contact time with peers and tutors to develop fluency and gain a better understanding of the languages they study. We have all been adjusting to these changing times and finding our way around this conundrum too and would like to invite you all to think creatively and share with each other how you have been practising your Danish, Dutch, French, German, Icelandic, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish, this vast array of fascinating languages on offer in SELCS!

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Dear students,

I’m excited to announce our film for the SELCS/CMII Film Club this week, which will be Jacques Demy’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). Jennifer Rushworth will be on hand to introduce and lead an informal discussion about this film on Microsoft Teams next Tuesday (see below also for changed timings and arrangements). Jennifer writes:

Join us to discuss Jacques Demy’s 1964 classic film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). This gorgeous film, with music by Michel Legrand, is sung throughout and features a dazzlingly young and beautiful Catherine Deneuve in love and with some difficult decisions to make.

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