Babble and Speak http://www.babbleandspeak.com Foreign Language Learning and Tutoring Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:50:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BBC Language resources http://www.babbleandspeak.com/bbc-language-resources/ http://www.babbleandspeak.com/bbc-language-resources/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:50:26 +0000 katharine http://www.babbleandspeak.com/?p=565 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 excellent. Great for a taster of your chosen language. If you’re inspired after that and want more, why not contact us to arrange some private tuition for some high quality accelerated learning!

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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. I would love it to be a tool that teachers and language learners could use, and which would save us all planning and preparation time.

Also, it’s always great to see other people’s resources – gives you new ideas!

If you’d like to upload anything, just email it to me on katie@babbleandspeak.com and I’ll put it up for you.

]]> http://www.babbleandspeak.com/shared-resources/feed/ 0 On s’amuse bien aux clubs de francais! http://www.babbleandspeak.com/on-samuse-bien-aux-clubs-de-francais/ http://www.babbleandspeak.com/on-samuse-bien-aux-clubs-de-francais/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:14:37 +0000 Katie http://www.babbleandspeak.com/?p=530 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, just let me know. On s’amuse tres bien!! ]]> http://www.babbleandspeak.com/on-samuse-bien-aux-clubs-de-francais/feed/ 0 A bit of French culture ; Le Malade Imaginaire by Moliere http://www.babbleandspeak.com/a-bit-of-french-culture-le-malade-imaginaire-by-moliere/ http://www.babbleandspeak.com/a-bit-of-french-culture-le-malade-imaginaire-by-moliere/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:15:26 +0000 Katie http://www.babbleandspeak.com/?p=421 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 this funniest of all his plays, full of a zest for life and scorn for professional pomposity.
Tickets: £5
Email: david.walker@sheffield.ac.uk

]]> http://www.babbleandspeak.com/a-bit-of-french-culture-le-malade-imaginaire-by-moliere/feed/ 0 A fantastic quote about language learning by Nelson Mandela http://www.babbleandspeak.com/a-fantastic-quote-about-language-learning-by-nelson-mandela/ http://www.babbleandspeak.com/a-fantastic-quote-about-language-learning-by-nelson-mandela/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:58:37 +0000 Katie http://www.babbleandspeak.com/?p=438 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.”

 

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Welcome to our new-look website; we hope you like it.

We’d love this blog to be a forum for people to share language-learning hints/problems/resources.

We would welcome all posts and if you would like a username and password so that you can start a thread, please ask Katie.

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