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Courses Offered by University of Calcutta : Department of Languages
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The history of foreign language teaching in Calcutta University is almost as old as a century. In 1917 studies in foreign languages started with the teaching of Tibetan, Chinese, German and Dutch. These were followed by French and Japanese (1918-19), Portuguese (1924-25), Italian (1929-30) and Polish (1939-40). When the second world war broke out, some of these languages were withdrawn because the foreign teachers who were teaching these languages left India
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