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The 5 Stages of Second Language Acquisition

During childhood, the brain is more receptive to language learning than at any other time in a person’s life and starting foreign or second language learning early sets the stage for a child to develop advanced levels of proficiency in one or more languages. It is also increasingly being seen as a necessary 21st century […]

I Speak Dora

It is always refreshing to sit down on a mat with a group of enthusiastic pre-school children, their eyes wide, their minds open, ready to learn, ready to soak up new words and information, like little sponges. I have been teaching languages to children, young and older people for about 25 years now.  Teaching languages […]

Why Do Our Fun Languages Franchisees LOVE What They Do?

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Language Extinction Is Driven By Economic Growth

What are the main drivers and repercussions behind the extinction of the worlds minority languages? It’s estimated that by the year 2100, over half of the Planet Earth’s 7000 languages – many of them not yet even recorded – may disappear.  With a different tongue dying approximately every 2 weeks, it would appear that languages […]

Is Australia Guilty of “Linguistic Paranoia”?

Having taught languages to children and young adults in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, I was very interested in an article that I read yesterday by Misty Adoniou, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra. The article considers whether Australians have “linguistic paranoia” and, as a country, is happy to be multicultural but remains […]