European Day of Languages Resource Pack

Teachers are often looking for resources and ideas for European Day of Languages and other language-themed days that are celebrated at other times of the school year. This resource pack comprises 40 d...

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European Day of Languages Resource Pack

Teachers are often looking for resources and ideas for European Day of Languages and other language-themed days that are celebrated at other times of the school year. This resource pack comprises 40 d...

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Primarium

Handwriting Education in primary Schools

primarium.info

How emojis became the world's universal language - BBC Reel

bbc.co.uk

Exploring the lost golden age of language diversity before expanding empires drove a global decline

Today, people speak or sign around 7,500 languages. Yet this figure provides only a snapshot of a constantly changing history. How many languages existed before written records? Did agriculture reduce...

phys.org

Humans may have once spoken tens of thousands of languages

Humans may have once spoken tens of thousands of languages before a rapid decline began long before colonialism, according to a new study.

earth.com

life lessons on success through effort: Spanish Proverb of the Day: 'Having a piano doesn't make you a pianist'- A timeless lesson on skill, effort, and why ownership is not the same as mastery - The ...

Spanish wisdom teaches that owning a piano does not make one a pianist. True mastery requires consistent practice, discipline, and dedicated learning. Modern life often emphasizes possessions over gen...

m.economictimes.com

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

theguardian.com

'They were competing for supremacy': Which is the oldest English accent?

Two BBC journalists go on a quest to find out whose accent is older – and uncover a dramatic history filled with hidden twists and surprises.

bbc.co.uk

The French transformed Africa. Now, Africa is transforming their language.

Most of the world’s French speakers are now African. Their growing linguistic influence is touching off debates about whom the language belongs to.

csmonitor.com

Modern language graduates would recommend their degree despite believing it did not get them a job, survey finds | South West Londoner

Seventy three per cent of modern languages graduates would recommend a languages degree despite almost half believing their degree did not get them a job.

swlondoner.co.uk

Endangered languages: 15 tongues on the brink of extinction and what disappears with them

From Siberian reindeer camps to the Kalahari, these 15 endangered languages carry knowledge, history and ways of seeing the world that no dictionary can fully save

qz.com

Ideas Education Ltd

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At last, a proper excuse for monoglots to learn another language: it helps keep your brain young | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

I love busting out a French subjunctive in pursuit of better restaurant service, so it’s a joy to discover there’s a neuroscientific upside to being multilingual, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy...

theguardian.com

Why Every Language Counts! - Deutschstunde Portal - Goethe-Institut

What happens when the languages children already speak are left out of school? And what opportunities are we missing as a result? The Erasmus+ project <i>Your Language Counts!</i> brought together par...

goethe.de

Nearly half of primaries struggle to find time for languages

Languages are coming ‘under pressure’ from primary school onwards - but the primary experience is key to enthusiasm for languages in secondaries, finds British Council

tes.com

Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say

Study finds those who speak two languages have brains that appear around six years younger than those who speak one

theguardian.com

Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts

Exclusive: University moves and falling exam entries fuel concerns about opportunities for working-class pupils

theguardian.com

Highly gendered languages are linked to larger personality differences between men and women

Analyzing data across 48 languages, a new study reveals a fascinating link between grammar and psychology. Researchers found that societies speaking highly gendered languages exhibit much wider gaps i...

psypost.org

New school league table for Languages - HEPI

New league table celebrates the English schools with the most extensive language provision. The Higher Education Policy Institute has compiled a new league table of schools based on official Departmen...

hepi.ac.uk

'Separate in name and power': How America reinvented English

America's linguistic independence has transformed the English language with a wealth of new words and phrases – shaping its own cultural identity in the process.

bbc.co.uk

Why Learning a Language Still Matters

Learning another language is one of the deepest and most human things one can possibly do, writes Douglas Hofstadter.

time.com

21+ new resources today

Today I've uploaded 21 PowerPoints and worksheets for Primary Spanish, both linear and mixed age schemes.  There are also a number of new ...

lightbulblanguages.blogspot.com

Could a broader mix of languages halt the decline of MFL?

GCSE entries data shows a big rise in ‘other modern languages’ - prompting calls for government to support schools to meet growing demand for qualifications in students’ home languages

tes.com

How learning languages helps me become a better scientist

Lessons from a multicultural scientific journey

chemistryworld.com

MSN

msn.com