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Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity School of Language and Literature. Here we share our knowledge of methods and ways of writing poetry and prose, and learn non US-English languages and explore their cultures, too. We also discuss many works of literature and literary epochs they belong to, as well as their historical development and the main characteristics by which they can be recognized.

Science that studies the structure of a language and its development is called linguistics. Wikiversity's School of Linguistics is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

History
The School of Literature and English Studies was founded within the Wikiversity's Department of Humanities on 15 July 2004, in the time when Wikiversity was still part of the Wikibooks project. Eventually, it became one of the most developed of Wikiversity's schools.

On 30 March 2005, the School of Foreign Language Learning was founded within the Department of Practical Arts and Sciences, though it failed to organize or function adequately.

Soon after the Wikiversity became a separate Wikimedia project, these two schools were merged together, creating the School of Language and Literature, as part of the Faculty of Humanities.

Notice of New Resources

 * The School of Language and Literature library was founded February 21st, 2009.
 * The School of Language and Literature resource catalog is complete and ready for use as of March 18 2009. Please list any new resources created in this department there. Thanks!

Projects

 * Organize all resources of the School of Language and Literature onto their own "category" page--see also School of Language and Literature resource catalog.
 * The School of Language and Literature library is looking for librarians to improve and organize resources.

English language

 * English Language
 * English Language Reference Desk


 * English language and literature for teens


 * Perfecting the English language as a first language

Foreign languages

 * Foreign Language Learning center
 * Arabic language department
 * Aymara language department part of the South American Languages Division
 * Breton language department part of the Brythonic Celtic Languages Division
 * Chinese language department
 * Cornish language department part of the Brythonic Celtic Languages Division
 * Farsi language department
 * French language department
 * Georgian language


 * German language department
 * Department of Germanic Studies (under major construction)
 * Interlingua language department
 * Italian language department
 * Japanese language department
 * Korean language department
 * Modern Hebrew Department part of the Hebrew Language Division
 * Latin language department
 * Learning Norwegian part of the Norwegian language department


 * Portuguese language department
 * Quechua language department part of the South American Languages Division
 * Southeast Asian language department
 * Spanish language department
 * Swahili language department
 * Swedish language department
 * Tamil language department
 * Turkish language department

see also School of Linguistics

Constructed languages

 * Æzu’ä language department invented language currently being produced for a currently untitled amateur film
 * Esperanto


 * Klingon language department language invented for Star Trek by Marc Okrand
 * Novial language department constructed international auxiliary language


 * Tolkien language department languages invented by J.R.R. Tolkien

Literature departments and divisions

 * American poetry
 * British novel
 * History of literature


 * Literary studies department
 * Native American literature department (also part of the School of Ethnology)
 * Russian literature


 * Tolkien Studies
 * Writing center

Catalogs and directories

 * School of Language and Literature library
 * School of Language and Literature resource catalog