Language Learning – Be careful (some swearing)
Take care when you learn a new language. No really, be careful, especially if you take my advice to, “Mimic famous people, play with the different accents in films etc.” http://www.learnenglish.de/ImproveEnglish/improvespeakingpage.html
Spanish Grammar Gets a Make-Over
The Royal Language Academy of Spain has launched a new grammar book. It’s taken them 11 years and is contained in two volumes of around 4,000 pages, with another volume coming out in a few months. Spanish is currently spoken by around 500 million people in over 20 countries.
Most popular language
According to the annual census of secondary schools, compiled by the Centre for Information on Languages Teaching, Spanish has replaced German as the second most popular language learnt in schools. The number of state schools in the UK offering Mandarin as an option has more than trebled in the past two years from one in […]