February is up! Guess what? There are now over 500 photos tagged with #IGLC on Instagram! How exciting! Thank you to everyone who’s got involved in January and February. I’ve loved seeing your photos, words, and videos and learning little snippets of languages from across the world. I hope you’ve found it useful too! If you’re ready to join in, […]
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Hello there! This month, I decided to take World Cinema Club to the big screen…well, YouTube. I mean, what’s more logical than a film talking about film? It just made sense. Also, next month’s film is The Lunchbox. This film kept popping up in my life so I decided that it must be a sign. I realised when I was […]
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It’s warm enough to walk with your coat open, you don’t have to close your curtains at 5pm, and Gonzo is awake. Spring is definitely springing. It hasn’t quite sprung yet. Getting there. And here she is failing to get out of her temporary water bowl. Good work, Gonz. You never fail in my eyes. So end of the month […]
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Sometimes Ashley comes home and tells me about his day teaching and I lose track. Don’t get me wrong, I listen, but more often than not I’ll have to stop him every few seconds to ask him to decode the latest TLA of teacher speak. I’ll decode that one for you: TLA = Three Letter Acronym. Just to make sure […]
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I toyed with the idea of calling this post “9 Reasons to Learn Croatian. Or The Day I Learnt Not to Film During Rush Hour”. You’ll see what I mean when you watch the video. For this video, I teamed up with the lovely Shannon, who runs the blog Eurolinguiste and very handily learns Croatian. I’ve been amazed by her […]
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Hello! Welcome to the first post in a series of how to use social media to enhance your language learning. Pfft! Why social media? Isn’t that just where you go to see endless baby scans, engagements rings, and cat videos from people you knew once somewhere in your past? Well, yes, apparently. But we still can’t help ourselves. We spend […]
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One of the most popular posts here on the blog is this one right here, highlighting a handful of Formula One drivers who are multilingual. I wrote that post way back in 2014, and decided it was time to shed a little light on some multilingual famous folk who don’t drive fast cars for a living. Today it’s the turn […]
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La tema esta semana fue ‘Ritmos mestizos’. Para mí, fue muy interesante; con un poco sobre el flamenco, la música cubana, y más. La extensión fue este artículo. Cuando lo leí la primera vez, fui como “Woah, ¡necesitamos pararlo! ¡Que terrible!” Pues, escuché algunas de las canciones mencionadas y realmente, no puedo ver el problema. Claro, la violencia doméstica es […]
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This week, I reached out on Twitter and Facebook for your favourite foreign language love songs. I found as many as I could and put them into this little 8tracks playlist of multilingual love songs. Perfect for the language lover in your life. Yes, this can also refer to you. Also, I made a little language love art. It’s I […]
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The second script I looked at for my Language Script Challenge was Hebrew. I feel like I should say ‘is’ instead of ‘was’ there because this is all still going on. I mean, does language learning ever stop? Nope-diddily-ope. What I already knew Before I started studying the Hebrew script, I knew very little about the language as a whole. […]
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