Russia has begun setting up a 24-hour English-language news network, the Russian news and information agency RIA Novosti announced today. No launch date has been given for Russia Today, which will be available in Russia, the CIS and across Europe, as well as in the U.S. and certain Asian markets. It aims to “reflect Russia's […]

Virgin Atlantic said yesterday it is offering Japanese language lessons on its London-to-Tokyo flights, giving linguistically challenged travellers no good reason not to know a few words upon arrival. Virgin said the course -- developed by Univerb Publishing House of Sweden -- is available on its in-flight entertainment system starting this week, alongside Spanish, which […]

Front Garden B&W Originally uploaded by Your Teacher. I like things to look natural.

After numerous rounds of "We don't even know if Osama is still alive", Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a coded message: 370HSSV-0773H Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed […]

Beckham - typical expat when it comes to language England soccer captain David Beckham has received flak from Real Madrid for not honing his Spanish skills despite residing in Spain for the last two years. The team's footballing director said that Beckham had failed the club by not learning the language even after undergoing two […]

Type "Tefl course" into Google and a scant 0.17 seconds later you'll be presented with results one to 10 of about 1,050,000. Evidently, for the aspirant Tefl (Teaching English as a foreign language) teacher there is an over-abundance of options. With courses ranging from online learning that take a few hours to complete to those […]