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Language Teaching in French School

Education in France includes the teaching of two to three foreign languages until the pupils end secondary education. They can choose among English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and some more. What are the most popular choices nowadays? Les français speak English, mais hablan español también French pupils get to choose their first foreign language at […]
June 02, 2020
Marketing, Business, Social Media… Jobs where you’re wanted for your language skills!

When you’re about to start college or university, the question of your professional future is an essential one. Of course, most of us pick something we are interested in, a subject we were good at in high school, that we feel attracted to, or simply that we have experienced before and want to get a […]
April 05, 2020
Breizh: an Endangered Regional Language?

Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany, in the west of France. In 2007, only 206,000 people claimed to speak it. Since the 80s, there are no more monolingual Breton speakers. Is Breton in phase of becoming a dead language? It is and it is not. True, the UNESCO acknowledged Breton as a “seriously […]
November 12, 2019
5 mad ways to practise your language skills

So, you’ve just arrived in a new country, eager to put all that theoretical knowledge you have striven to learn into practice. Then you realise it is not that easy, being in a new place can be rather lonely and when you have sorted out all the paperwork and other duties you cannot avoid, you […]
October 25, 2019
Is English the official language of music?

It seems to be challenging for other languages to break the international charts, let alone selling over 20 million records to enter the legendary most selling albums – Andrea Bocelli, who sings in Italian, looks rather lonely in this table. Is English better than other languages? English sells well, nobody will question that. It does […]
August 11, 2019
One week of Russian – how much can you learn?

Tweet One week of intensive Russian learning (starting from scratch) was a lot of fun! I spent about 35 hours with Larisa, teacher at the Volkshochschule of Hamburg, and my class of 15 students. Nice group, eager to learn, very passionate about Russian – I guess you have to
February 09, 2016
Language learning tool: Lernkrimi

Tweet Since I’ve been living in Germany, I’ve been working on learning German (very urgent) and Spanish (for fun). My local library has a lot of resources for languages (even for Slovak or Swahili!) and I ran into
December 08, 2014
Swedish is on Duolingo!

It’s still on beta but it is now available as one of the 9 languages you can learn on the language learning platform.
November 27, 2014
New language mission: learning Italian!

Summer is slowly bidding farewell for this year, the days are getting shorter and the temperature is dropping. Time to find some indoor activity for the cold months!
August 30, 2014
Have you met Bosley yet?

Tweet There is quite a lot bilingual literature out there, however bilingual children’s books are still a rather niche market. There are not many of them available and many are for children who can already read independently. Bosley the Language Bear is designed for
May 20, 2014