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

The Beckhams are learning … sign language

Did you know the Beckhams are learning sign language with their children Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz so that they can communicate with a friend of theirs who is deaf? David Beckham, wife Victoria and kids are all receiving tuition on a regular basis.

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Cabbies Learn Languages for the London Olympics

More than 3,000 cab drivers who work for Radio Taxis in London have been given MP3 and CD language courses so they are prepared for the influx of foreign tourists for the 2012 Olympics.  Under the scheme devised by Collins Language, drivers will learn useful phrases in French, Spanish and Chinese, and will have a flag on their cab to denote the language they can speak. Read more

Multilingual Sussex Schoolchildren Speak 94 Languages

There are over 3,000 bilingual school children in Sussex, on the South Coast of the UK, who speak an amazing 94 languages between them, including Wolof, which is spoken in Senegal, and Igbo, spoken in Nigeria and Niger-Congo.

New figures show the top ten tongues in West Sussex are Urdu, Gujarati, Caribbean Creole French, Portuguese, Tamil, Punjabi, Polish, Bengali, French and Pashto.   Read more