Monthly Archives: April 2010

  • How to Speak French (Fun Video)

    It's Friday, so here's a fun, spoof video of how to speak French. Full marks for the black and white nouvelle vague pastiche, but not so sure about the dodgy accents!...

    READ MORE | 23 Apr 2010

  • Pimp your vocab...the handbook of student slang

    Helpful article from the Guardian on how to decode the latest Student-speak argot. You probably feel, like me, too "Teek" to understand "Wagwan"!...

    READ MORE | 22 Apr 2010

  • Frequency Lists

    Curious to measure your progress in vocabulary acquisition in a new language? This Frequency Lists page on Wikitionary sets out lists for the most commonly-used words for a range of languages together...

    READ MORE | 19 Apr 2010

  • Can You Guess Where My Accent Is From?

    Here's a fun quiz for Friday brought to you by the Language Trainers Group. The quiz features 16 people reading a few lines from Rudyard Kipling's famous poem "If". All you have to do is listen to the...

    READ MORE | 16 Apr 2010

  • A Question of Gender: French Nouns

    Just how good are you with the gender of French nouns? Test yourself with this new quiz on Laura Lawless's comprehensive French study site on About.com. OK, has anyone managed to answer all one hundre...

    READ MORE | 15 Apr 2010

  • Charlie Foxtrot and Juliet Lima: International Phonetic Alphabets

    Most Anglophones have come into contact with the International Aviation phonetic alphabet of Mike, Romeo, Juliet, Charlie and their friends. However, as this fun web page points out, other European la...

    READ MORE | 13 Apr 2010

  • Paris 26 Gigapixels

    Paris 26 Gigapixels is a truly breathtaking web site of one of the biggest assembled panoramic images. It shows Paris in a very high definition with more than 2000 individual photos used to make the f...

    READ MORE | 3 Apr 2010