MultilingualFamily is a new website for families living the UK looking for support.
The aim is to have an easy ‘place’ where families can find out about other families speaking the same language around them so that they can form playgroups, etc. There is also a resources section about the different languages and anything to do […]

The German Embassy is pleased to invite nominations for the German Teacher Award 2006. The three winners will each receive a personal prize of £750 and a certificate. The prizes will be presented by the Ambassador at a special ceremony at the Embassy. Please send nominations which should be around one page and signed by […]

Glenn Malone reports that Google Maps are now available for the whole of Europe. This could be really useful for language learning students, as they use Google Maps with other web sites (Allociné, Deutsche Bahn, SNCF…) to fill in detail about restaurants, bars, cafés, train stations, resorts, tourist sites… on the Google streetmap. Students as […]

For a reason unbeknown to most of our non-driving 15 year old students learning it, traffic reports sometimes feature in coursework and examinations. Well, here is a resource that could make that learning a little more relevant, perhaps, and a little more motivating, certainly. The Internaute’s Automobile live traffic site allows students to choose an […]

This hard-hitting article from Libération looks at the unsettling phenomenon of ‘le happy slapping’. The article will only be available for a week or so, but might be worth keeping for Advanced Higher Arts and Media sections.

Two great - and long - articles in the Guardian reflecting on how new technology is affecting our brains. In the comment article you are able to add your own views, although it might be worth first reading Susan Greenfield’s piece, where she points out that new technologies might provide a way out of the […]

Here’s a set of seven short paragraphs based on seven video games which have become blockbuster films. Great reading for any year.

Via the PiE blog, Mark is setting himself a real challenge - trying his own medicine, if you will:
Welcome to this blog, a journey in one person’s attempts to master a new language. My name is Mark Pentleton and I have set myself a challenge: to learn Mandarin Chinese. My language-learning career began in 1983 […]

If your students are fans of Lost (and they are then they’ll be fascinated by the French interest in the second series, too:
Devenue culte en France comme aux Etats-Unis, la série “Lost, les disparus” revient en juin sur TF1. Avant la saison 2, découvrez quelques secrets du tournage.
Read the dossier now.

Jane Renton, HMIe Modern Languages for Scotland, says in a Scotland on Sunday article that schools should be discussing foreign language films and stars such as Audrey Tautou instead of relying on textbooks to teach pupils how to speak other languages properly.

Read the full article:
SCHOOLS should be discussing foreign language films and stars such as Audrey Tautou instead […]