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What’s your inspiration for learning a language? Today we’re hearing from Jack, a student and blogger at LangLearningBlog, on how he got addicted… What…
The other day, in a moment of idle curiosity, I took an online Spanish test. And it went rather well;…
We’ve all had that moment, haven’t we? That moment when you’re in another country, you don’t speak the language, and…
Meet Will. He’s the writer and adventurer behind travel blog The Broke Backpacker, and he just embarked on an epic two-year journey…
For me, the big glacé cherry on top of the holiday cake is seizing the opportunity to say something in the local…
More years ago than I care to remember, I did a degree in Hispanic Studies at the University of Nottingham. I…
The Junior Language Challenge 2015 may be over, but we’re already thinking about next year’s competition. In 2016, we’d love to…
‘It’s all Greek to me’. This is what an English speaker might say when they don’t understand something at all. In…
Blogger Erika Holt is a big fan of languages and learning. In today’s blog post, she tells us why, and explains…
A few days ago, Gloria stopped by my desk with a burning question: had I ever heard of the whistling…
