Improve your foreign language skills

Prepare for language certifications

To help you prepare for language certification exams, the University of Montpellier’s libraries offer a variety of resources:

• Language Courses
  For those looking to improve their skills or just starting out: English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Arabic, German, and French as a Foreign Language (FLE).
  Babel Room at the Richter Library
• TOEIC/TOEFL Reference Guides
  :Babel Room inthe Richter Library /^{1st floor}of the Pharmacy Library / ground floor of the Science Library

The University provides electronic resources:

• Vocable Numérique
  Read your magazine online with expanded content. Access multimedia resources in English (vocabulary, reading and listening exercises, conversations, quizzes, placement tests, and TOEIC practice exams).
• Global Exam
  Helps you prepare for 16 official certifications in 5 languages through practice exams and a personalized study plan: English (TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS), French (DELF), German (Bright), Spanish (DELE), and Mandarin Chinese (HSK).

Find these resources via your Digital Campus => Libraries => Databases

Practice languages every day

Read major newspapers from around the world—The Guardian, The New York Times, El País, and many others—at the Richter Library.

Read the global press with Europresse and Factiva.

You can also practice languages on a daily basis with:

• Novels in English: Richter Library and Science Library
• Comics and graphic novels: Science Library

ARTE CAMPUS

To prepare for a class or have fun learning a foreign language, enjoy Arte documentaries from the comfort of your own home.

Arte Campus lets you:

• Watch hundreds of documentaries in English, German, and Spanish with subtitles;
• Create summaries and mind maps;
• Embedding videos in Moodle.

JOVE EDUCATION

The Jove Education platform allows students to review the fundamentals of science and helps teachers enhance their lessons with video content covering chemistry, biochemistry, physics, engineering, statistics, and many other fields.

Find these resources via your Digital Campus => Libraries => Databases