The Language Learning Specialists
It’s International Women’s Day, and what better day to start a debate around the connotations of the word ‘woman’ itself? I recently had a moment’s reflection on what it meant to be called a woman whilst on a trip to Shetland, where I learnt that the word ‘wife’ is used to refer to any woman, … Read more
Organisers of the uTalk Junior Language Challenge have announced the launch of the Laetitia Collender Memorial Fund, a special bursary set up in memory of a popular teacher from Putney in West London who was a passionate supporter of the national language competition. The Junior Language Challenge (JLC) is an annual competition for primary school … Read more
The Junior Language Challenge is uTalk’s annual competition for primary school children across the UK. We’ve been running the JLC now for 14 years, and hope to make this year our biggest yet! Children taking part in the competition will first learn French* using our app, and top scorers will progress to round 2 – … Read more
uTalk will be celebrating its 25th anniversary at this year’s Bett Show, by unveiling an exciting range of new multi-platform products for schools and colleges. uTalk, formerly EuroTalk, started in the early 90s with educational products designed to make language learning fun for all ages. Now it’s marking its silver anniversary with the announcement of new … Read more
Customers at the Costa Coffee store on Upper Richmond Road will be more prepared than most to order a cappuccino in style as uTalk prepares to launch Italian evening classes there from 10th January. The initiative is a pilot for uTalk and PopUp College, who believe that making learning less formal and more social improves motivation … Read more
Downloaded uTalk? Great! Not sure where to start? No problem. Take a look at our founder Dick’s video as he talks you through how to get the best from the app. We’d love to hear what you think of the app – good or bad; it’s important to us that our app meets your needs, … Read more
A 9-year-old girl from Birmingham has won the UK’s only primary school language challenge to be crowned 2016 winner and earn a family trip to Africa to see the work of charity onebillion in person. This year’s uTalk Junior Language Challenge for children aged 10 and under started in March and saw over 1,000 children representing more … Read more
The winner of Channel 4’s Child Genius 2016 is to share her love of learning with the finalists of uTalk’s national competition, the Junior Language Challenge (JLC), when she presents prizes at the grand final on Friday. 10-year-old Rhea – who speaks Gujarati and is learning French and Hindi – believes knowing other languages helps … Read more
This week, our fabulous JLC finalists have started learning their third language before the final competition in October. Having flourished in Romanian and triumphed in Korean, they are now tackling the African Bantu language of Swahili. Luckily for them, Swahili uses the Latin alphabet (one less thing to worry about!), but there is one peculiar … Read more
It’s Bake Off season, and that means it’s time to be bamboozled with technical culinary terms, many of them in a foreign tongue. We’re intrigued by some of the weird and wonderful language that comes out of The Great British Bake Off – no, we don’t mean when bakers accidentally drop their cakes on the … Read more