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The Subjunctive mood is often a tricky area of grammar for language students to grasp when learning a foreign language. Part of the problem is that its role in our own language, English, is ill u...
READ MORE | 4 Apr 2014
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Are musicians better language learners?
Fascinating piece in yesterday's Guardian that discusses the latest academic research that shows music training plays a key role in the development of a foreign language in its grammar, colloquialisms...
READ MORE | 28 Feb 2014
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V.me by Visa added to payment methods
We've just added V.me by Visa as a new payment method to our online shop. The V.me service allows users to enter all their personal details and card information, then just use a single username and pa...
READ MORE | 29 Nov 2013
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Learn 1,000 words in a new language urges campaign
The BBC website highlights a new, commendable initiative from the British Council and the group Speak to the Future to encourage everyone in the UK to learn at least 1,000 words in another language. T...
READ MORE | 25 Sep 2013
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Tour de France: The French terms you need to know
To coincide with the 100th edition of the Tour de France, the BBC Magazine has a nicely-researched feature on the key cycling vocabulary that every self-respecting connoisseur of the sport should know...
READ MORE | 18 Jul 2013
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Seeing Pictures of Home Can Make It Harder To Speak a Foreign Language
The recent article on the Smithsonian web site on new research that demonstrates that being exposed to faces or images that you associate with your home country primes you to think in your native tong...
READ MORE | 30 Jun 2013
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There's timely piece in this week's Guardian about the best way to teach modern languages in UK schools. To quote from one of the article's interviewees, "In a lot of European countries...
READ MORE | 16 May 2013
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Google Translate Now Lets You Build A Personalized Phrasebook
Breaking news on Techcrunch on Google Translate's new phrase book feature. Google has created a new feature that allows you to easily create a personalized phrasebook to store away the phrases an...
READ MORE | 15 Mar 2013
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Language plea by Sacred Heart School, Middlesbrough
Interesting debate on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and News site on whether Standard English should be imposed on school pupils where, in the case of a secondary school in Middlesbrough, a strong loc...
READ MORE | 7 Feb 2013
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Goettingen: The song that made history
Inspirational and heart-warming story on BBC Radio 4 Today programme on the French singer, Barbara's song, Goettingen. Sung entirely in German, this song came out shortly after a treaty was signed 50...
READ MORE | 22 Jan 2013
