Spelling mistakes are ok
It seems that spelling mistakes are getting just a little bit too much for one university lecturer that he has now proposed that some common spelling mistakes should now be included into the English language.
Dr Ken Smith, senior lecturer in criminology at Buckinghamshire New University, has drawn up a list of these “Common” mistakes. He [...]
Online resources for learning a language
The world is a much smaller place than a few years ago, not that it is shrinking in a physical sense, but by travel and more recently with the growth in broadband. So now would be a great time to learn a language.
There are many advantages with having a foreign language under your belt, it [...]
Free online language courses
Learning a language is something that most people think about but never really get around to doing, this is for several reasons. The time it takes to actually get to a level that is reasonable, the cost and the embarrassment of sitting there in a room with others.
The solution is to try a different approach, [...]
Technology could render schools obsolete
In the near future it has been predicted by the head of one of the UK’s top private schools that children will be learning by a type of direct input. This will of course mean that schools as we know them today will become obsolete.
How this will develop is not yet known, but you can [...]
Preparing to study abroad
There has never been an opportunity like there is today for a student to study in a foreign country this comes about because of the international standards are education are very similar now, but for a student who intends to study in a foreign country particularly with in Europe there are other problems.
First of all [...]
The school of 41 languages
In most schools these many of the pupils struggle to keep up with French lessons as they always seem to be so hard and to be fair, quite embarrassing most of the time especially when you have to speak out aloud in front of the class.
But imagine being in a school where there are pupils [...]
Three little pigs not PC
The government’s political correctness brigade have been up to their old tricks again, this time it concerns that old tale of the Three Little Pigs.
This story has been around for years and taught in schools and nurseries as one of the first stories that children learn, but it would seem that this may not be [...]
Learning languages online
Learning a language is pretty hard, but when you are leading a busy life, then this sort of thing get often gets left off and it ends up being one of those things that never gets done.
But there is way that a lot of people have begun to use and this does not involve having [...]
English minorities in some schools
There are some schools in the UK where English is not the first language, around 574 out of the 17,361 primary schools and 112 of the 3,343 secondary schools, which do not have English have their first language.
There is a high concentration of these schools in London, Leicester, Blackburn and Birmingham, this follows the call [...]
Site offers readers access to 1.5 million books
There is a great new project being developed between Carnegie Mellon University in the States, the Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India, and the Alexandria in Egypt where they have managed to completely digitise more than 1.5 million books to make them available online.
The online library will be available to [...]
The language of the Olympics
With the 2008 Olympics literally around the corner, the fact that they are being held in Beijing, China, brings up a few problems, travel for one and language as a very close second. With this in mind top language specialists EF are offering a mobile versions of their “Official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games English Lessons” [...]