Archive for September, 2008
What is the best language to learn?
The best excuse I hear for not learning a language is ‘well I can’t learn every language in the world’. And that much would be right. There are about 6,800 languages in the world. It would be a pretty tough job to learn them all.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn at least one other [...]
Happy European Day of Languages!
26 September is the European Day of Languages – an annual event across Europe to celebrate linguistic diversity and promote language learning. It is the perfect day to start to learn a language!
The European Year of Languages 2001 was successful in involving millions of people across 45 countries in activities to celebrate linguistic diversity and the [...]
Teach Yourself Japanese Conversation
Teach Yourself Japanese Conversation
An independent review by Sarah Maddocks
Teach yourself Japanese Conversation is a 3-hour, 3 CD, all-audio language course which is aimed at complete beginners or people who want to refresh their Japanese. Don’t even think about trying to do the course all in one go – it would be near impossible not to [...]
Michel Thomas Advanced Spanish
Michel Thomas Advanced Spanish
An independent review by Sarah Maddocks
The Michel Thomas 5-hour Advanced Spanish language course is an audio-only course (strictly no pens, paper or books) which follows on from the 8-hour course. The course is for advanced students (the title of ‘Michel Thomas Advanced Spanish’ makes this slightly obvious) but also for people who [...]
BBC Get Into Spanish
BBC Get Into Spanish
An independent review by Sarah Maddocks
Get Into Spanish is apparently the ultimate interactive learning experience from the BBC. It certainly seemed to be that way; the language pack contains 2 PC CD-ROMs, a book, audio CDs and access to online learning resources.
The CD-ROM is the main part of the course. It has [...]
What is your favourite language course?
We’re always on the look out for new and innovative language courses. Let us know which language courses have worked for you and why you like them!
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