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There's timely piece in this week's Guardian about the best way to teach modern languages in UK schools. To quote from one of the article's interviewees, "In a lot of European countries...
READ MORE | 16 May 2013
Google Translate Now Lets You Build A Personalized Phrasebook
Breaking news on Techcrunch on Google Translate's new phrase book feature. Google has created a new feature that allows you to easily create a personalized phrasebook to store away the phrases an...
READ MORE | 15 Mar 2013
Language plea by Sacred Heart School, Middlesbrough
Interesting debate on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and News site on whether Standard English should be imposed on school pupils where, in the case of a secondary school in Middlesbrough, a strong loc...
READ MORE | 7 Feb 2013
Goettingen: The song that made history
Inspirational and heart-warming story on BBC Radio 4 Today programme on the French singer, Barbara's song, Goettingen. Sung entirely in German, this song came out shortly after a treaty was signed 50...
READ MORE | 22 Jan 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
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
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
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
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
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