Student stories

The course itself is unlike any others offered elsewhere in the UK, with practical language skills at the core of the Modern Languages courses. Moving away from studying traditional literature opened up a world of politics, culture, translation and history that I wouldn’t have been able to study otherwise. 

I was fortunate to engage in several translation practices, receiving training in professional translation that immersed me in authentic language service scenarios". 

I spent four months in Spain and six months in Germany and the opportunity to use my language in both those countries was something I thought would be really valuable to improve my language skills.

By studying media and communications I was able to cover a lot of topics, which helped me decide what area of media I wanted to go into for my career.

The Centre for Translation Studies (CTS) team is a rare group of professionals who are incredibly knowledgeable and brilliant at teaching and sharing their knowledge with their students.

I use my linguistic skills daily to liaise with partners from different parts of the world in order to maintain and further develop our relationships.

Russian and economics graduate Dave Sage remembers his student days at Surrey, and recalls the night The Who rocked the University’s Great Hall in 1971…