For most of you reading this, you will already have first-hand experience of learning at least one other language. So, at what point can one consider oneself “fluent” in another language? Can you call yourself fluent in French if you can make it around a French market or order confidently in a restaurant without too […]
“Is it hard to learn another language? Which is the easiest language to learn? How long will it take to learn another language?” These are questions I am constantly being asked by adults… adults who often regret the fact that they never mastered another language and, for that reason, are now motivated to give […]
Being a speaker of several languages, I often find a foreign word popping into one of my sentences when I am speaking English. Those of you who speak another language may support me in the fact that, just sometimes, there is a so much more succinct way of expressing something in another language, where English […]
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 […]
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 […]
It is not easy to teach a second language and children can get easily bored with traditional teaching methods. This is what led LCF Clubs to create the global interactive language learning website which is helping to revolutionise how children learn. Read here about how it all began. Babelzone is structured to suit all levels […]
Our ability to form a limitless number of thoughts into a spoken word is what distinguishes the human species from our less evolved cousins but, while we know that language first appeared among Homo sapiens around 30 000 to 100 000 years ago, we still don’t know all the secrets of exactly HOW language evolved, […]
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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 […]
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 […]