I’ve just found some lovely basic language resources on the BBC website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ You can listen, print and download essential phrases in 40 languages! Great if you’re going away on holiday or business and don’t have much time before you go. For the more popular languages, there are are even basic online courses which are [...]

I’m very excited – I’ve just worked out how to upload resources onto the website! I’ve so far just uploaded one worksheet, but it’s a start. If any of our tutors, customers or anyone else who is interested in languages would like to upload their resources for other people to use, that would be great. [...]

We’ve had a fab time at Abbey Lane Primary this term learning French – what a lovely group of children. We’ve got a full complement for next half term, and I’m starting a group up at Totley Primary, too. If anyone is interested in holding a French club (or another language) at their child’s school, [...]

Any Francophiles out there may be interested in this … Wednesday 15 to Friday 17 February at 7:30 French Department Theatre Group LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE by Molière Le Malade Imaginaire was Molière’s final curtain-call (he died after playing the lead role in its first four performances) but his comic verve is at its peak in [...]

I heard this quote on a course I attended on Friday, and thought it was beautiful … “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”