Guest Post: My Experience of Teaching Abroad in Rome as a British Council Comenius Assistant
Settit Beyene has just spent a year living and working in Rome as part of the British Council’s Comenius Assistantship programme. It bears similarities to the better-known Language Assistant […]
6 Reasons Why My British Passport Is My Most Valuable Possession
Almost 7 years ago my friend Libby and I were backpacking around Cuba at the beginning of our gap year. On a bus from Havana to Viñales we got […]
Why You Should Learn… English
Following on from my post last week about learning Spanish, here’s the third post in my series on the top 10 most spoken languages in the world. No. 3: English […]
Why You Should Learn… Spanish
Following on from my post last week about learning Mandarin Chinese, here’s the second post in my series on the top 10 most spoken languages in the world. No. […]
Why You Should Learn A Foreign Language
As a linguist, I am biased, but I think it’s a fair statement to say that speaking foreign languages is a highly desirable trait in today’s globalised and ever-more-connected […]
The Well-Travelled Postcard 