The Arqus Café is a virtual meeting place where students and staff from the Arqus partner universities can practice their language skills outside of the language classroom. The sessions are not led by teachers but instead by language tutors who are native-level speakers. This is a great way to expand your language and cultural knowledge informally and with other language learners in a relaxed atmosphere.

Please note: You should have a working knowledge of the language (min. A2/B1) so that you can actively participate in the sessions. The language cafés take place via the video conference platform ZOOM.

So grab a cup of coffee and join us at the Arqus Café. We look forward to seeing you there!

Read more about the Arqus Café on the Arqus European University Alliance main page.

Languages

We currently have language cafés for the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

If the language you would like to practice isn’t on the schedule or you would like to participate but the café offered doesn’t fit your schedule, just let us know. We adjust the cafés we offer on a regular basis.

Leipzig University students can also register for the cafés offered by the University of Stockholm.

Current Session

The next Arqus Café session starts on 11 March 2024 and runs until 21 June 2024. This means that there will be fifteen weeks and fifteen meetings per language café.

Registration opens on 28 February 2024. We encourage you to register as soon as possible as the places are limited. If a café is full, we will put you on the waiting list.

Please note: The times listed for the language cafés are Central European Time (CET). If you, for example, live in Lithuania or Ukraine, the start time would be one hour later than the time listed, and if you live in Ireland or Portugal the start time would be one hour earlier than the time listed.