language

A Bit Fishy from Sporter 471 days old

I’ve seen quite a bit of daft translation recently. My reason for posting it is not to have a laugh at how bad foreigners are at speaking English. That ...

Practicality or Simply Prejudice? from Sporter 614 days old

[ ... ] to learn a language like Chinese these days, if for instance, you intend to travel to China or encounter Chinese clients in your work. But if ...

Reading in Foreign Languages from Sporter 744 days old

[ ... ] read in the language. Studying foreign languages has been one of my favourite pursuits for some years now so I suppose I’ve learned from ...

On Language Learning from Sporter 767 days old

[ ... ] grasp of the language, should do best in this type of activity. This brings me to Stevick's point. He does not like "artificial language" which ...

English in Galicia from Sporter 866 days old

One of the objectives of the new "Ley Orgánica de Educación" is that Galician children will begin to study English from 6 years of age. La Xunta (the ...

Musical Accents from Sporter 889 days old

One notable development in the successful young Scottish rock bands of our time is that some are losing the fear of singing in their own accents. The ...

Mind your Language from Sporter 940 days old

Among the Youtube discoveries of programmes I thought I would never see again is Mind your Language. I must confess we watched it avidly in our house ...

Rubber Bumpers from Sporter 1021 days old

I’ve been looking at some stuff about accents on the BBC website. There’s a test that you can do to see how well you can recognise British accents and ...

Os novos from Sporter 1113 days old

[ ... ] another new language. I have left Catalan behind and am becoming acquainted with Galician (galego). It's fun watching and listening to Galician ...

Eurovision Health Warning from Sporter 1272 days old

The Eurovision Song Contest can seriously impair your senses. It can make you blind; as performers cavort around in outfits specially designed to distract ...