One successful EU initiative is now into its 11th year of promoting partnerships between schools in Euro. Read about it in the Education Guardian.

The web’s love affair with blogging shows no signs of abating according to the latest report from blog tracking firm Technorati, on the BBC website. There has also been an increase in the number of blogs being written in Farsi, the main language of Iran. Farsi, which is also used in parts of Afghanistan, has […]

Hinglish - a hybrid of English and south Asian languages, used both in Asia and the UK - now has its own dictionary. Read all about it on the BBC website.

Video weblogging, or “vlogging”, is making a difference in election campaigns at home and elsewhere in Europe. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, France’s potential female President Ségolène Royale and even David Cameron have all been uploading their own private videos - or other people have been catching them candidly on camera and doing it for them […]

Sharing Practice is the new section on the MFLE, bringing together teaching and learning material from across the LT Scotland network of sites which could be relevant to you, the MFL teacher.
This week we’ve just added some examples from East Ayrshire showing what students got up to during the World Cup to explore the themes […]

Generation Next is a new season of programmes from the BBC World Service. It will explore the world through the eyes of the next generation - the under 18s. A key part of the season is School Day 24.
On 6 December 2006, schools around the world will come together for 24 hours on air. Young voices will be at […]

Languages are in freefall in state schools but one private head is preparing pupils for the future with compulsory Mandarin, writes Amanda Blinkhorn in the Times Online.
As private schools grasp the tiger’s tail and teach their children how to conduct business in Chinese, fears are growing that state pupils will be left behind as their […]

MFLE regular Lynne Horn is interviewed this week by David Noble of the Booruch podcast. You can listen here (just click the ‘Pod’ button) as Lynne talks about how she has used mobile phones in the modern languages classroom in Tobermory, Mull. The show notes give all the links you need to find out more […]

That was the message from Linda Fabiani MSP at the annual conference of the Scottish Association of Language Teachers in Stirling last weekend. She believes in languages as the way for Scotland’s economic future to flourish. I was at the conference and attempted to blog her thoughts. What follows is what I managed to capture […]

With the Israeli conflict this summer Farsi hit the top 10 languages of the blogosphere, reports BoingBoing, since David Sifry of Technorati did his quarterly roundup on the state of the blogosphere.
There are now 100,000 new weblogs every day, more than two per second, and the number of languages continues to diversify. English might be […]