Want to find out if you have a special aptitude for learning languages? The UK's Channel 4's  popular, new series, Hidden Talents has created a slew of specific self-marking online tests designed to tease out innate abilities and this week

Ever felt that unless you speak a language fluently it's not worth having a go? Marina Warner's recent article in Read More

Fun story on BBC News of an initiative by the Bank Machine Company to add the option of cockney rhyming slang on cash machines in the East End of

More fuel for Bilingualism as one of the most effective forms of brain training in the op-ed piece in this Sunday's Read More

At last some good news for language teachers in the UK: according to a news story on the BBC there's an urgent need for specialist language

Excellent book review in the New York Times of Babel No More, The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael

Inspirational Friday fun: video on the BBC web site of twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings, the winnner of a national competition to find the UK's

Digital technology often gets accused of accelerating the rise of English at the expense of other languages, but according to a piece on the BBC Technology

Here's a story to put a pep in your step at the end of a long week: A 100-year-old cyclist from France has set a new age group world record for The Hour an incredible 86 years after his first competitive race. The article on the Read More

Fascinating interview on RFI with the André Goosse, editor of Le Bon Usage, the bible of French grammar, to mark the recent