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 […]
Art: Mexican Lotería Tablas
I’ve sadly never been to Mexico, but I did come across these playing cards in San Antonio, Texas, on my recent DTour around North America. […]
Guest Post: Life as an au pair in Spain
Harriet Barter is studying Spanish and Italian at the University of Exeter (the same degree that I did at Exeter – a very wise choice!) and she has just spent […]
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… Mandarin Chinese
Following on from my post last week about learning a foreign language, (Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language), here’s the first post in a series on the top 10 […]
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 