There are problems with being a bilingual country. Canada's language commissioner said that federal institutions have their work cut out to create a truly bilingual environment where staff can choose to use French or English. Around 22 million Canadians, two thirds of the population, speak only English or French. Only five million, or 17.5 percent […]

In the UK the number of students opting to study modern languages at GCSE continues to slide - with French being the biggest loser. I have to say that if language learning is still as dire as it was when I was at school, then I'm not surprised.

Quite a few new words and phrases have entered the Chambers Dictionary this year. Here are some of the more interesting ones:- Blue-on-blue - fire from one's own side or allied forces, as opposed to fire coming from enemy forces, sometimes called friendly fire. Blu-ray - a blue laser used to read and write discs. […]

According to an annual poll on debt, The Push survey, students who started university in the UK last year can expect to owe more than £17,500 by the time they leave.

Under new Home Office proposals overseas students coming to the UK will have to be sponsored by a licensed college. The licenses will be issued by the UK Border Agency. The problem is that some so called colleges are bogus, they simply recruit people, often unsuspecting young people, into low skilled (and very low paid) […]

Why not try something like this yourself? But watch out for making mistakes! (See if you can spot them and then look below). @1.40 - disgust (not disguist) @1.36 - existence (not existance) @ 1.51 - It (not it) @ 2.01 reminds (not remind) @ 2.02 - every day (not everyday) @ 2.32 - than […]