Learning a language and its accompanying culture can be an entertaining challenge. It is one thing to conquer the vocabulary and structure your thoughts into grammatically correct sentences, but another thing entirely to understand the idiosyncrasies of a language that […]
Traditional teaching styles have fuelled the myth about Italian being a challenging language. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
It’s not hard to understand that language training has benefits – both for personal skills and in business. However, if you are running an organised and sustainable business, you will probably want to make sure you are measuring the return from your language courses carefully. This infographic covers […]
The UK is facing a language-learning crisis. School students are turning away from the study of languages at an alarming rate, particularly core European languages such as French and German. This is happening at a time of national political disruption […]
As James Joyce once said, “a man’s mistakes are his portals of discovery”. It is a fact that we learn from our mistakes, it should therefore follow that mistakes take a significant role in the language learning classroom. Every language trainer has a preferred method of error correction, but it’s always good to mix things up and try something new – take a look at my recommendations.
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