Why study languages at UC Berkeley?

Language study opens doors.

Photo of graduating senior Habiba Geweifal

Graduating 2025 Arabic and Linguistics Major Habiba Geweifal.

"Language is a skill that you will carry on throughout your life. Wherever you go, whatever field you are going to be in, it will be a benefit. It will be something that will allow you to continue to connect with people and to learn about the world around you. And that is the thing that we are lacking in the most, in today’s day and age. 

Language will open those doors for you because it is the way we are able to communicate, connect, and understand one another.

If you just take that small effort to learn a little bit of a language, you will see how much it will deepen and strengthen your understanding of somebody else. I really think language is key in everything we do."

Graduating Arabic major Habiba Geweifal