How learning a language earned me a free jar of seaweed
Hello, goodbye, yes, no, please, thank you – and ‘can I have a glass of wine, please?’ You may well…
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What languages mean to me
Interview with Alexandra Turner – translator, writer, editor Alex left her London life a few months ago to go and…
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Is it possible to forget your native language?
I recently came back from a week long vacation in my home country, Romania. While there, I noticed something very…
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Talking about Time: Insights from Other Languages
The following post is from Paul, an English teacher who lives in Argentina. Paul writes on behalf of Language Trainers,…
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Breaking the ice: overcoming language nerves
So apparently a quarter of Brits are nervous about speaking another language when they’re abroad, and 40% of us are…
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What is the world’s weirdest language?
We’ve just found this fun illustration by ESL of the 50 weirdest languages on Earth (and beyond), and it’s got…
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A Hungry Conundrum
Learning a language is one thing… but what happens when that language changes depending where in the country you happen to…
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How to be English: a beginner’s guide
Because there’s nothing the English do better than laugh at ourselves, we had a lot of fun yesterday putting together…
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A Language Journey
Today we’ve got a fantastic guest post from Kelly Wang – English teacher, accidental traveller, cake whisperer, dinosaur believer – on…
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Interesting idioms from around the world
No matter what language you’re learning, at some point you’ll probably come across idioms. These phrases, on the surface, seem…