An hour long (I think) test in the morning, followed by two interviews (one for each language) throughout the day. The interviews were about half an hour each, and although I had lots of waiting around there were some people that didn't (luck of the draw I suppose!), and during the waiting I had a nice chat with the other interviewees.

There were plenty of students helping with the interviews, meaning they could answer any questions I had.

For the ab initio language, the interview was understandably strange as I'd not actually studied the language before. However, having a couple of related topics/activities on my personal statement meant there was plenty to talk about. As far as I can remember, the majority of questions were indeed based on content from my personal statement.

For the other language, we started off talking about things on my personal statement but soon meadanered into other territory, for example just books and films we liked and why! I assume because this was for a language I'd studied, there was also a passage from a book (in the foreign language) which I was given for 15 minutes beforehand to read and annotate, we then talked about it a bit in the interview. There actually was very little talking done in the language itself.

Having a mock interview was helpful as it allowed me to talk through what I might want to say. Otherwise, I found a fab modern languages and cultures short course online on Future Learn, run by Bristol uni, which came up in both interviews.

Obviously you need to bring some formality to the interviews, but I'd say just try to be chill! Like in an exam, try not to work yourself up about what could go wrong, and trust in yourself and your abilities!