Mathieu Beaudouin, Kyoto, 2023

Mathieu Beaudouin - 梅士寧

Linguistics & Philology • Rare, low-resource, endangered, and extinct languages
Sino-Tibetan/Trans-Himalayan • Central and East Asia

Teaching and mentoring

University teaching, supervision, assessment, and teaching resources.

Current and recent teaching

University of Cambridge

Topics in Sino-Tibetan linguistics

MPhil course · 2026–2027 (S2)

EPHE-PSL · Institut des langues rares

Tangut language I & II

  • 2024–2025 (S2)
  • 2023–2024 (S2)

Teaching experience

Sorbonne Nouvelle

2021–2022 (S2) Morphosyntax BA course

Hamilton College

2021–2022 (S2) Phonetics BA course

Inalco

2021–2022 (S1) Introduction to research MA course
2021–2022 (S1) The Sinitic languages MA course
2021–2022 (S1&S2) Methodology in Chinese Studies BA course
2020–2021 (S1) The Sinitic languages MA course
2020–2021 (S1) Reinforcement in Chinese language BA course
2020–2021 (S1) Methodology in Chinese Studies BA course
2019–2020 (S1) The Sinitic languages MA course
2019–2020 (S1) Reinforcement in Chinese language BA course
2019–2020 (S1) Methodology in Chinese Studies BA course
2018–2019 (S1) Reinforcement in Chinese language BA course
2018–2019 (S1) Methodology in Humanities BA course

Gabriel Fauré High School

2017–2018 (S1&S2) Chinese language
2017–2018 (S1&S2) History of China (taught in Chinese)

Teaching resources

Teaching archive Overview of courses taught from 2018 to 2022. Open →

Supervision, examination and qualifications

Mentoring

  • Supervisor in historical linguistics at the University of Cambridge, MMLL (2026–2027)
  • Mentor at TRICL7 (2026) and TRICL8 (2027)

PhD examination

  • Yang Xicheng, University of Reading, UK (external examiner): “Reviving the Tangut Script: new paradigms in designing digital typefaces for extinct writing systems”

Qualifications

  • Qualification “Maître de conférences” (Assistant/Associate Professor) delivered by the French National Council of Universities, sections 7 (linguistics) and 15 (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Hebraic languages and cultures)
  • Master's degree in Language Teaching

Beyond the university

French pronunciation

I am a private tutor of accent reduction for non-native French speakers with more than a decade of experience (details here).