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

Speak to the Future is a new campaign sponsored by the British Academy and the Chartered Institute of Linguists among others with the purpose of highlighting the importance of languages, language learning and professional language activities for the

If you don't know already, the London Language Show 2011 starts tomorrow at Olympia London and runs from 21st to the 23rd of October. If you've not been before, the London

A recent article in Time Magazine highlights a fascinating piece of research into whether some languages

In the wake, or should I say, train of the Royal Wedding, a wonderful piece on the etymology of the vocabulary of matrimony from the Read More

Thought-provoking article in last week's Economist on the evolution of language. New research appears to confirm the theory that all languages originated in Africa. Just as

Another post on cycling and languages. Lovely quote from Tim Hilton's wonderful memoirs on the world of cycling, One More Kilometre and We're In the Showers, about how the culture of cycling naturally promotes the desire to learn

New study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) shows that speaking a second language can delay the onset of Dementia and Alzheimer's for up to five years. Both the Read More

Sunday 26th of September 2010 marks the European Day of Languages. Set up by the Council of Europe in 2001, the idea of the European Day of Languages (EDL) is to show people across Europe how important languages are, and what fun can be had learning

The new baccalaureate qualification proposed by the UK Education Secretary, Michael Gove, could be a positive initiative for foreign languages. According to the Read More