Jamshedpur, Feb. 28: Chinese, Japanese, Bengali and Ho are the languages that would be taught at Language Resource Centre at Karim City College from now on.

To be introduced in the next academic session these languages would be added to the current list, which includes German, French, Arabic, Santhali and Urdu.

“We thought that a few more additions in the language centre would help students,” said S.M. Yahiya Ibrahim, the co-ordinator of the Language Resource Centre at the college. The programmes were formally inaugurated today by some top brass in the city’s corporate world.

The ceremony was attended by executives like Hemant Nerurkar, chief operating officer of Tata Steel, Partho Sengupta, vice-president of corporate services in Tata Steel and B.L. Raina, the managing director of Tinplate Company of India Limited.

The best feature in the resource centre is the language laboratory.

Otherwise each classroom is acoustically treated in the centre. Individual cabins are made complete with built recording and receiving system, a headphone and a VGA monitor. Students at the resource centre can listen to recorded materials through which they can learn to pronounce and enunciate properly. “Fresh study materials and lessons can also be planned, prepared and recorded by using the relevant software,” added Ibrahim.

Plans are on to arrange language refresher courses for teachers as a part of their designed curriculum.