Have you ever felt a sense of frustration during a meeting with someone from a different culture, who speaks a different language, when you realise how the experience could be significantly enhanced by knowing, understanding and speaking that person’s language?
More than 220 million people in the world speak French, whether as their first or second language and this is the second most widely learned language and the sixth most widely spoken language. There are many studies on how learning a second language can…
"Such an important and fundamental question; isn’t it?” Teachers are in a position to have a significant influence on the students they teach. There are probably one or more teachers from your past that have helped, stimulated, encouraged or even…
Studying abroad is often seen as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to so many people; a unique chance to be immersed in a country, city and environment by studying a new language and living with a host family. All your careful planning may still not…
The Common European Framework of Reference, or CEFR, represents a guideline used to describe achievement of learners of foreign languages. The guide is applied across Europe and is some other non-European countries such as Columbia and the Philippines. So…