languages

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hidden Talents

    Want to find out if you have a special aptitude for learning languages? The UK's Channel 4's  popular, new series, Hidden Talents has created a slew of specific self-marking online tests designed...

    READ MORE | 11 May 2012

  • Why Bilinguals Are Smarter

    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Speak to the Future: The Campaign for Languages

    Speak to the Future is a new campaign sponsored by the British Academy and the Chartered Institute of Linguists among others with the purpose of highlighting the importance of languages, language lear...

    READ MORE | 26 Oct 2011

  • London Language Show 2011

    If you don't know already, the London Language Show 2011 starts tomorrow at Olympia London and runs from 21st to the 23rd of October. If you've not been before, the London Language Show is ideal for l...

    READ MORE | 20 Oct 2011

  • Slow Down! Why Some Languages Sound So Fast

    A recent article in Time Magazine highlights a fascinating piece of research into whether some languages truly do sound faster than others. Researchers from the Université de Lyon recruited vol...

    READ MORE | 4 Oct 2011

  • Here comes the goom

    In the wake, or should I say, train of the Royal Wedding, a wonderful piece on the etymology of the vocabulary of matrimony from the Boston Globe. The 'goom' referred to in the title is the old Englis...

    READ MORE | 9 May 2011