uTalk Junior Language Challenge: Round Two is underway!
This round of uTalk’s Junior Language Challenge (JLC), now coming into its sixteenth year, began back in September of 2019….
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Le Musée de l’Homme – Paris
7000 languages, 7 billion people – one museum’s answer The word of God, children’s novels, recipes, drunken talk, rumours or…
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Registration opens for Junior Language Challenge 2017
The Junior Language Challenge is uTalk’s annual competition for primary school children across the UK. We’ve been running the JLC…
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10 Famous Faces Who Speak Other Languages
We’ve posted previously about movie and sport stars who speak other languages. But it turns out they’re not the only famous…
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Why Russian? Why not?
Lucy was our first ever winner of the Junior Language Challenge and at age 23 has now chosen to take…
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Why I think languages are Lingotastic
Sarah Barrett from Lingotastic runs language classes for children and families, using music, crafts, puppets and bubbles – it sounds so…
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To tip or not to tip?
A social dilemma you’re bound to fall into at some point is whether or not to tip – and how much!…
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Who needs football? I’d rather learn a language…
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…
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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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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…