Phillips Exeter Academy

Modern Languages

Phillips Hall

Featuring media-equipped Harkness classrooms, it is home to the Modern Languages and English Departments.

Take Your Pick

We offer courses in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish — with the opportunity to study Arabic or Italian your senior year.

Curricular Global Learning

Take your practice on the road while immersing yourself in a foreign culture, refining your language skills, and connecting with a local community.

By the Numbers

6

languages offered including Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish

68

courses offered that range in transition to accelerated classes

9

countries in which to study a foreign language and culture

6

student led clubs related to modern languages

Featured Courses
CHI580

Chinese Through Digital Media

This advanced course aims to hone students’ conversational skills by exploring a variety of media throughout the Chinese-speaking world.

 

GER502

German Bestsellers

This sequence of courses is offered fall (GER502), winter (GER503) and spring (GER504) and focuses on recognized masterpieces of German writing, with both classical and contemporary authors represented.

 

FRE554

French Humanism

This course studies selected works by great francophone writers of the past and present, whose reaffirmation and defense of human dignity, or questioning of it, give them lasting significance.

Amadou T. Talla
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Instructor in Modern Languages

Ellen S. Glassner
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Instructor in Modern Languages

P. Fermin Perez-Andreu
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Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, William Woodbridge Teaching Chair

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Evelyn Cristoph, Instructor in French

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