Very exciting news: the folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax's huge collection of original sound recordings and films of folk musicians is to be digitised and will be shortly available for streaming, according to an article in the Read More

Fascinating, if not slightly unsettling, piece on BBC Radio 4 Today on Transcranial Direct Current

Nice piece and video presentation on Springwise.com about a new typeface aimed at dyslexics. The new font by Dutch

Is English a perversely positive language no matter what is going on in the world? i09.com reports on a new

Happy New Year or should we say, ¡Feliz año nuevo! We've just added to our site a new video presentation of Punto y Coma, the bi-monthly audio magazine for intermediate to advanced speakers of Spanish. Read More

Fun piece in the Economist's Johnson column on the British love of euphemism and the wide gap between what we say in

Think that 'gene pool', 'car pool' and 'pooling your resources' have something to do with water? Then you'll need to think again, thanks to Mark Forsyth's new book, Etymologicon, a circular tour through the origins of words. As the author explains in

It's official:  the Oxford English Dictionary have declared 2011’s Word of the Year to be ' Read More

Surely, this must be a first on British TV, a foreign language comedy show with sub-titles. Women! (Vous, les femmes), a sketch show in French and produced in France is

Nice piece on Language Johnson, an Economist blog dedicated to language use, on the recent influx of