FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009
June 3, 2009 by la-andrea · Leave a Comment
The FIFA Confederations Cup is being held in various towns and cities in South Africa, including Pretoria and Johannesburg. It will take place from the 14th-28th June 2009. International teams playing this year include Brazil, Spain, Italy, USA, Egypt and South Africa. Read more
We Must Lift Our Children Out Of Linguistic Poverty
January 20, 2009 by la-admin · Leave a Comment
In an article in the Independent newspaper in the UK, Caroline Sarll believes that her attempts to raise her daughters bilingually will not go to waste. Even with a hybrid language of Denglisch, when her girls mix their English and German, doesn’t put her off. In other European countries, primary-aged children have four 50-minute lessons of English a week. If only the rest of the country and the education decision-makers believed the same thing. Read more
ENGLISH LANGUAGE MOVIES
November 20, 2008 by la-hellie · Leave a Comment
Take a look at our selection of English language films, read our film reviews and let the movies motivate you to get the English language advantage.
We’ve picked out a selection of our top English language movies. It’ll help you to get more familiar with the English language and is a great way to appreciate the culture from various English-speaking countries.
English Language Films and Movies
++check format, age classification and language combination is appropriate before you buy!++
| film title | year | buy from amazon.com | buy from amazon.co.uk |
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona (English/Spanish/Catalan) |
(2009) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Slumdog Millionaire [English/Hindi/Urdu] | (2008) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Mamma Mia! | (2008) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Burn after Reading | (2008) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Taken | (2008) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Quantum of Solace | (2008) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | (2008) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| The Dark Knight | (2008) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Rocknrolla | (2008) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Kung Fu Panda | (2008) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Lost in Austen | (2008) | DVD | DVD |
| The Pianist | (2003) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Chicago | (2003) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Gosford Park | (2002) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD |
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding [& Greek] | (2002) | DVD | DVD |
| About a Boy | (2002) | DVD | DVD Blu-ray |
| Bend It Like Beckham | (2002) | DVD | DVD Blu-ray |
| Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone | (2001) | DVD Special DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring | (2001) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Mulholland Drive | (2001) | DVD | DVD Blu-ray |
| Moulin Rouge [& French] | (2001) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Bridget Jones’ Diary | (2001) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Captain Morelli’s Mandolin [& Greek] | (2001) | DVD | DVD |
| East is East | (2000) | DVD | DVD Blu-ray |
| Billy Elliot | (2000) | DVD | DVD |
| Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels | (1999) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Notting Hill | (1999) | DVD | DVD Blu-ray |
| Shakespeare in Love | (1998) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| The Full Monty | (1997) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD |
| Brassed Off | (1997) | DVD | DVD |
| Fargo | (1996) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Romeo & Juliet | (1996) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| The English Patient | (1996) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD |
| Trainspotting | (1996) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| Pride & Prejudice | (1996) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| French Kiss [+ French] | (1995) | DVD | DVD |
| Pulp Fiction | (1994) | DVD | DVD Blu-ray |
| Muriel’s Wedding | (1994) | DVD | DVD |
| Adventures of Priscilla – Queen of the Desert | (1994) | DVD | DVD |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | (1994) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD |
| The Piano | (1993) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD |
| Strictly Ballroom | (1992) | DVD | DVD Blu-ray |
| Thelma and Louise | (1991) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD |
| Truly Madly Deeply [+ Spanish] | (1991) | DVD | DVD |
| Pretty Woman | (1990) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| When Harry Met Sally | (1989) | DVD | DVD |
| Dead Poet’s Society | (1989) | DVD | DVD |
| Out of Africa | (1985) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Blu-ray |
| A Clockwork Orange | (1971) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD Special DVD Blu-ray |
| Walkabout | (1970) | DVD Blu-ray | DVD |
| more English language films on DVD from amazon.com |
more English language films on DVD from amazon.co.uk |
Read our English language film and movie reviews
coming soon!WORLD CINEMA
November 13, 2008 by la-admin · Leave a Comment
Watching a foreign language movie is a great way to learn a new language, improve existing language skills and to find out about a foreign country and its culture. Buy a DVD in a foreign language and you can choose both the language you watch in and the language of the subtitles. You’ll be amazed at how much you can already understand. Film is a great language learning resource and makes a great gift too. Motivate yourself with a movie!
Our top 10 foreign language films
01 Downfall German
02 House of the Flying Dagger Chinese
03 Motorcycle Diaries Spanish
04 Amelie French
05 Il Postino Italian
06 Life is Beautiful Italian
07 Y Tu Mama Tambien Spanish
08 Delicatessen French
09 Spirited Away Japanese
10 Manon des Sources French
Foreign language movies by language
We have selected the most popular foreign language movies for you:
Chinese language moviesEnglish language movies
French language movies
German language movies
Hindi language movies
Italian language movies
Japanese language movies
Spanish language movies
Other foreign language movies
Foreign language film reviews
This is where we tell you what we really think about foreign language films on language advantage! We’ve picked out a selection of our favourite foreign language movies and written a short review of each. They are all very different, but excellent viewing – and of course will motivate you to get the language advantage.
Chinese language film reviewsFrench language film reviews
German language film reviews
Hindi language film reviews
Italian language film reviews
Japanese language film reviews
Spanish language film reviews
Film reviews in other languages
EUROTALK LANGUAGE CD-ROMS
November 11, 2008 by la-hellie · Leave a Comment
language advantage brings you our top courses from Eurotalk, one of the world’s leaders in language learning software.
There is ground-breaking software at beginners, intermediate and advanced level in well over 100 languages (and growing), both on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM (the only language learning DVD-ROMs in the world!), as well as downloads, plus a new business language course.
for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk>>
Feature Product!
01 Premium Set – Five Programs In One!
level: beginner, beginner+, intermediate
languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (American), English, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu
media: DVD-ROM
platform: pc, Mac
The Premium Set includes five of the Eurotalk language courses in one! It comprises the Talk Now, Talk More, World Talk, Vocabulary Builder and Talk the Talk courses on one DVD-ROM. This is an invaluable course for absolute beginners right through to intermediate learners. You will learn vocabulary progressing to full sentences in no time. You will also improve on your speaking skills and compare yourself to native speakers. This way you can hone your accent skills too! There is an amazing range of languages – perhaps the widest ever available – well over 100!
for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>
02 Talk Now! Essential Words and Phrases for Absolute Beginners
level: beginner
languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Egyptian), Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azeri, Basque, Bengali, Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Canadian English, Canadian French, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Chichewa, Chuvash, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English (American), English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Gujurati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jèrriais, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda (Rwanda), Kirghiz, Klingon, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Latin American Spanish, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Mandarin Chinese, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, Norwegian, Occitan, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Pidgin (Papua New Guinea), Polish, Portuguese, Provençal, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Russian, Saami, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho (Southern), Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
media: cd-rom
platform: pc, Mac – you can also uploads words onto your iPod
Talk Now! is the world’s bestselling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than eight million people to date. It’s ideal for travellers, holiday makers, business people, school children, students and families. This is great as an introduction to a new language for an absolute beginner and leaves you with the basic vocabulary to get by and the first building blocks of your new language. You can have fun learning through playing games and even record your voice to compare yourself to native speakers. There is an amazing range of languages – perhaps the widest ever available – well over 100!
for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>
for more information and to buy Talk Now! CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>
for more information and to buy Talk Now! CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk store on amazon.com>>
03 Talk More!
level: beginner +
languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Basque, Bengali, Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Chichewa, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, English (American), Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Gujurati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Latin American Spanish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Mandarin Chinese, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho (Southern), Shona, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
media: cd-rom
platform: pc, Mac
Talk More! is the next step up from our best-selling Talk Now! range for lower intermediate learners. Increase your basic knowledge and prepare yourself for World Talk, our intermediate level. With Talk More! you can learn a new language the EuroTalk way using over an hour of broadcast quality video and the latest interactive techniques. Ideal for travellers, holiday makers, business people, students and families.
for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>
for more information and to buy Talk More! CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>
for more information and to buy Talk More! CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk store on amazon.com>>
04 World Talk
level: intermediate
languages: Afrikaans, Arabic (Egyptian), Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English (American), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu
media: cd-rom
platform: pc, Mac
If you’ve mastered the basics in a language and still want to improve your language skills while having fun, then World Talk is the CD-ROM for you. World Talk takes you from intermediate level onwards if you have already built up some confidence listening to and speaking the language. The interactive games and quizzes will help to further develop fluency and understanding of the language.
for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>
for more information and to buy World Talk CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>
for more information and to buy World Talk CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk store on amazon.com>>
05 Movie Talk
level: advanced
languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
media: dvd-rom
platform: pc, mac
You can take part in a hugely popular film and learn a foreign language as it’s really spoken. You can become the starring part of the movie, talking in your target language! These are the only language learning DVD-ROMs in the world!
Movie Talk English – Inspector Morse
Movie Talk French – Au Coeur de la Loi
Movie Talk German – Ein Fall Fur Zwei
Movie Talk Italian – Mio Padre e Innocente
Movie Talk Spanish – Querido Maestro
for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>
for more information and to buy Movie Talk DVD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>
06 Vocabulary Builder
level: children 4 to 12 years
languages: Africaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Arabic (Egyptian), Armenian, Azeri, Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Canadian English, Canadian French, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Chichewa, Chuvash, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, English (American), Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Gujurati, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jèrriais, Kazakh, Khmer, Kurdish, Latin, Latin American Spanish, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Mandarin Chinese, Manx, Maori, Navajo, Nepali, Norwegian, Occitan, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Pidgin (Papua New Guinea), Polish, Portuguese, Provençal, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Russian, Saami, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tamazight, Thai, Tswana, Turkish, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu
media: cd-rom
platform: pc, Mac
Your kids can learn the basics of a new language in a fun way on the computer. They learn through cartoons and there is even a voice recognition function that records the children saying the words in their new language and plays it back in a show! Adults love Vocabulary Builder too.
for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>
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more on Language Advantage Kids>>
07 Talk Business
level: beginner+, intermediate
languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Chichewa, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, English (American), Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malay, Manx, Maori, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
media: cd-rom
platform: pc, mac
If you want to succeed in business abroad, then Talk Business is for you. Aimed at people who already know the basics, it gives the specialised language you need for doing business abroad. Must-know language ranges from basics like ‘what is your website address?’ to more advanced discussion of exchange rates, product guarantees and marketing budgets.
for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>
for more information and to buy Talk Business CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>
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more on Language Courses for Business>>
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How Do We Sound?
September 30, 2008 by la-andrea · Leave a Comment
Have you ever wondered how many accents there are in the UK? Or thought about the diverse range of words pronounced differently across the nation? The BBC website holds a whole archive of voice recordings as well as interesting information about the way we speak in the UK.
Listen to the UK’s interesting mix of accents and dialects>>
