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Free courses – now that's a language students understand
The uptake of language degrees at British universities is falling but as this recent article in the Guardian demonstrates the news is not all bad. The University of the East of London is one...
READ MORE | 17 Dec 2012
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Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing
Fascinating account on the BBC News site of the quest to crack proto-Elamite, the oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far defied attempts to uncover its 5,000-year-old secrets.&...
READ MORE | 24 Oct 2012
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French fight franglais with alternatives for English technology terms
Some important lessons can be learnt from an article in this week's Metro on the consequences of the rising tide of franglais in the French language and what to do about it. According to the Offi...
READ MORE | 5 Oct 2012
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My Two Alien Life Forms, an amusing article in this weekend's Guardian is a timely corrective to the popular view that English is somehow carrying all before it as it spreads across Europe....
READ MORE | 16 Sep 2012
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Free Online Resources for Language Learners - Our Top Ten Categories
Looking for some of the best free online resources for language learners Hopefully, our newly posted page, Free Online Resources for Language Learners - Our Top Ten Categories, should be able to...
READ MORE | 14 Sep 2012
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Tu and Twitter: Is it the end for 'vous' in French?
It seems that the informal nature of social media is having a corrosive effect on the formal form of you in languages such as French, Spanish and German. The BBC News Magazine highlights the problem a...
READ MORE | 10 Sep 2012
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The Most Annoying, Pretentious And Useless Business Jargon
Timely article in Forbes on the rise of needless business jargon. Among their list of the top 45 expressions there are some high-profile usual suspects such as 'core competency', 'buy-in' and 'empower...
READ MORE | 20 Jun 2012
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Our new site search engine goes live today. This should make it much easier for users to find specific products as the new search engine gives greater weight to product titles over the use of the phra...
READ MORE | 1 Jun 2012
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London, France's sixth biggest city
Insightful article on the BBC web site to a Radio 4 programme on what attracts so many French to live in London. Many of the estimated 400,000 French in London live in the East End which is where the...
READ MORE | 30 May 2012
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Mon Esprit Partagé, My Two Minds
Wonderful article from New Scientist that pulls together recent findings of the cognitive advantages of bilingualism. According to studies highlighted in the feature, being able to speak two languages...
READ MORE | 28 May 2012
