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How do you become fluent in 11 languages?
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 most multi-lingual student, explaining in 11 differen...
READ MORE | 24 Feb 2012
Digital tools 'to save languages'
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 pages, the internet could be the salvation o...
READ MORE | 20 Feb 2012
French cyclist breaks age group record for The Hour - three months after his 100th birthday
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 competit...
READ MORE | 17 Feb 2012
Interview on RFI with the André Goosse, editor of Le Bon Usage
Fascinating interview on RFI with the André Goosse, editor of Le Bon Usage, the bible of French grammar, to mark the recent publication of the 15th edition. Goosse talks about the differences i...
READ MORE | 15 Feb 2012
Folklorist’s Global Jukebox Goes Digital
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 stre...
READ MORE | 3 Feb 2012
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Fascinating, if not slightly unsettling, piece on BBC Radio 4 Today on Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, a new brain stimulation technique being pioneered at Oxford University that co...
READ MORE | 26 Jan 2012
New font designed for readers with dyslexia
Nice piece and video presentation on Springwise.com about a new typeface aimed at dyslexics. The new font by Dutch typographers and graphic designers, StudioStudio is specifically created to be r...
READ MORE | 17 Jan 2012
Language is hardwired to be optimistic, even if people aren’t
Is English a perversely positive language no matter what is going on in the world? i09.com reports on a new study by mathematicians at the University of Vermont that analyzed millions o...
READ MORE | 13 Jan 2012
Punto y Coma Presentation Video
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 speake...
READ MORE | 5 Jan 2012
Fun piece in the Economist's Johnson column on the British love of euphemism and the wide gap between what we say in certain situations and what we mean. As one commenter perceptively points out, euph...
READ MORE | 16 Dec 2011