Past admissions interview questions for Modern and Medieval Languages
What is language? (Oxford University Website)
Why do you want to study a very literature-based degree? (Oxbridge Applications)
What do you think Voltaire meant by 'Il faut cultiver notre jardin'? (Oxbridge Applications)
What are the differences between Spain and Latin America? (Oxbridge Applications)
How does Le Monde differ from English broadsheets? (Oxbridge Applications)
Should poetry be difficult to understand? (Oxford University website)
What makes a short story different from a novel? (Oxford University website)
In a world where English is a global language, why learn French? (Oxford University website)
This very passage is a fundamental contradiction of its own message? what does that say about the writer when compared to the tonal difference of the last line? (Oxbridge Applications)
what I thought of the TV programme 'wife swap' and what class issues arose from this. (Oxbridge Applications)
what makes something poetic? (Oxbridge Applications)
why haven't there been many French operas? (Oxbridge Applications)
What makes a novel or play political?
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