Hogmanay

On the 31^st December each year the whole of Scotland comes alive for the celebration of Hogmanay. It  begins on the last day of the year and continues right through the night until the morning of the 1^st January and has sometimes been known to carry on through to the 2^nd or even 3rd January. That is some party!

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Happy Christmas! Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noel! Shub Naya Baras!

Christmas is a Christian religious ceremony which is generally celebrated every year on 25 December.  It commemorates the birth or Nativity of Jesus of Nazareth and is celebrated mainly by Christians, although it has become popular with non-Christians as a secular cultural festival.   The birth is remembered with religious festivities and recreations of the Nativity, which is re-enacted by children at school nativity plays. Christmas Day is an official national holiday in most Western countries.

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Tibetan Students Protest over Language Reforms

Tibetan students in Beijing and Tongren have recently demonstrated against planned education reforms in the Qinghai Province.  The reforms threaten to limit the use of the Tibetan language in schools and many believe the region’s Tibetan population will have to study in Mandarin Chinese in the future, which they see as an erosion of their own language and culture. Read more

Did you know … Penguins are Welsh

Compilers of the new online version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) have highlighted the influence of Wales on the English language.  The dictionary claims to be the only English dictionary that tries to get to the roots of the first known use of every word in the English language.   Read more

Think Spanish – A New Online Audio Language Magazine

We are pleased to announce that we have now added the Think Spanish & Think French online audio language magazines to our range of hand-picked innovative language learning courses.  The Think Spanish online audio language magazine is more than a simple Spanish language course Read more

Give A Kid A Language Gift

Looking for something different to give your children this year? We have hand-picked our top language gifts for kids so they can start to learn another language and find out about other cultures.  Give a kid the gift of language this holiday and it will last a lifetime!  Happy holidays! Read more

Harry Potter and the 64 Translations

With the penultimate instalment of Harry Potter’s new adventures just released … it is not only on a screen near you – but all around the world!  The new film, Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows (Part 1), will be released in different languages in many countries across the globe.  However, it won’t be dubbed into as many languages as the Harry Potter books, which have been translated into a staggering 64 different languages, including Ancient Greek and Latin! Read more

Give A Budget Language Gift

Want some new gift ideas?  We all know how money-conscious we have to be nowadays. With this in mind, we have hand-picked our top language gifts on a budget.  Give your friends, families and colleagues a very different gift this year – give them a language gift and let them get their language advantage! Happy holidays! Read more

Will We Listen to French Musique Pop?

A French language radio station which will largely play Gallic pop music has launched in the UK.  For the past 50 years, French music and Europop has not been seen as cool by the British, but it has started to reinvent itself and 80 per cent of the new radio station French Radio London’s music will be by French artists or in French. Read more

Happy Icelandic Language Day!

National Icelandic Language Day is on 16 November 2010 this year, to mark the birthday of the famous Icelandic poet, naturalist and author, Jonas Hallgrimsson.  The Day has been celebrated for the last 15 years to help preserve the purity of the Icelandic language and protect it against foreign influence Read more

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