Kabale University Institute of Languages

Kabale University Institute of Languages – Read details below:

Kabale is a university town and hereby offers a golden opportunity of multilingual acquisition through the Institute of Languages, Kabale University. Catch this opportunity!
The Institute of Languages offers opportunities to wise men and women, professionals inclusive, to improve on their knowledge, add certificates, diplomas and degrees to their collections or curricula vitae.

Our Vision: To be the nucleus of language teaching and learning in Africa.

Our Mission: To teach, train, carry out research, provide conducive environment for teaching and learning of national and international languages; and to offer unique language related services such as translation and interpretation

Communication is such a vital thing in the world today. To communicate there has to be something in common and one of the most important tools is Language. Man cannot survive without Language.
Learn French and Kiswahili, and polish your English and Runyakitara Languages for a better communication
Remember a good command of many languages can:

Ensure your success as a bilingual or multilingual professional
Improve your chances of promotion
Open doors for international jobs
Increase your earning power and enhance your social life

The Institute of Languages Kabale University is growing and has collaborations with other Language Institutions in the Great Lakes Region. In the near future this Institute will take an international perspective and offer other languages like Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and German.
Please read more about the different courses offered under the existing Departments and more about us in our Brochure.

Departments:

English
French
African Languages

Institute Background

A good number of citizens in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) would like to take up different language studies for specific reasons. Ability to speak more than one international language is a vital requirement today as we all know. The urge to learn French mainly arises from proximity to French-speaking countries in the Great Lakes Region and the demand for it in order to work with tourist organizations, hotels and international organisations. The desire to embark on learning Kiswahili arises from the need to enhance personal communicative ability so as to fit in the East African Community. Similarly, the need for the Rwandan and Burundian students to learn English is being catalyzed by the proximity to, and their countries having joined, the English-speaking East African Community.

Kabale University comes as a saviour! The location of the university at the link to Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) provides a unique feature for business as well as cross-cultural dynamism. The Knowledge of these languages is and will always be important to this region.

The Institute of Languages of Kabale University is the only one of its kind in Uganda. It offers many courses in four languages namely: English, French, Kiswahili and Runyakitara (referring to the four languages spoken in western Uganda namely Rukiga, Runyankore, Rutoro, and Runyoro.

The Institute of Languages of Kabale University is prepared to offer these courses to all people who wish to learn any of the above languages individually at Certificate or Diploma levels, or a combination of any two languages like English and French, Kiswahili and French, Kiswahili and English, Runyakitara and English. It has highly trained manpower required to run the programmes. Other services offered include translation of documents, like academic transcripts, passports, driving permits etc. and interpretation especially during conferences from any one language to another.

Many staff members and other students from within and outside the university have shown great interest to learn French, especially due to the fact that trends of globalization demand a working knowledge of two or more international languages. Applicants who join the university from Rwanda and the nearby countries have expressed the need to learn English, while the expatriates working with NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) and those living in Kabale have shown interest to learn Runyakitara. As already mentioned above, because of the East African union the knowledge of Kiswahili too has become very important.

The creation of the Institute of Languages was also to fulfill Kabale University mandate of instituting academic programmes that are relevant and meaningful to the communities within its catchment area.

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