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Ever felt that unless you speak a language fluently it's not worth having a go? Marina Warner's recent article in The Guardian is a rallying cry for making do with what you've got. As she points out:...
READ MORE | 26 Apr 2012
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Cockney cash: Lady Godivas and speckled hens
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 London. This sounds a great way to introduce overseas...
READ MORE | 20 Apr 2012
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More fuel for Bilingualism as one of the most effective forms of brain training in the op-ed piece in this Sunday's New York Times. The article highlights research that now shows that that the 'interf...
READ MORE | 20 Mar 2012
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Specialist language teachers 'urgently required'
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 teachers as the number of pupils set to sit language GCSEs n...
READ MORE | 14 Mar 2012
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The Art of Mastering Many Tongues
Excellent book review in the New York Times of Babel No More, The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard. As well as looking at some of the secrets of langu...
READ MORE | 9 Mar 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
