Fakenham High School GandT Spanish club have launched a competition with prizes. Go to their Spanish blog, Read the descriptions of the 4 fiestas. Email us in Spanish to say which you think is/are a real fiesta. Justify your answer well and you could win even if you picked the wrong one!
Competition open to pupils in the UK. Include the name of your teacher and school address in case you win a prize. Competition closes 30th June.
The BBC has launched BBC Bitesize online revision for Gaelic, including the Ask A Teacher service in time for May 30th’s Higher exam.
Have you used it yet? What do you think of this new service? Is there something missing that LTScotland could fill?
If you are a Scottish teacher you can tip off your students about the Past Papers 2005 available as podcasts, with exam advice from Brian Templeton, Glasgow University. The password required and the web address over at PiE are available only through the MFLE forum.
Which? are advertising a free guide to getting the most out of your computer. It contains really basic stuff including how to download podcasts and publish to the web. All you have to do is call 0800 380 380 to ask for your free copy.
David Sifry, the boss of blog search engine Technorati, has released his monthly stack of info on the world of blogging. For linguists, what is amazing and wonderful and scary at the same time is the predominance of Japanese in the blogging world – 31% of all blogs are written in Japanese. Also, Chinese is on an equal pegging with English at 25%. Why is this scary? Because we’re teaching all the languages that rank WAY under these two foreign languages. Clearly, the blogosphere is one place where authentic ‘flattening’ of the linguistic world is already happening. If history helps us predict the future, I’d say that the virtual flattening won’t take too long to reach the real world of meat-space either.
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