There have been some depressing headlines recently about the state of foreign language learning in UK secondary schools. BBC analysis highlights language learning drops of between 30% and 50% since 2013 in the numbers taking GCSE language courses. This is …
Alan Watts the British philosopher, writer and speaker, said that ‘We seldom realise . . . that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did …
How do children learn languages? What all children have in common is curiosity and an ability to learn. Research tells us that babies begin to understand language about twice as fast as they actually speak it. According to Dr Patricia Kuhl, what’s …