After countless hours of practising list after list of verb conjugations, getting used to tongue-twisting vocabulary from “chiacchierare” (to chat) to “cinque­cento­cinquanta­cinque” (five hundred and fifty-five), and even becoming familiar with the wonderfully theatrical Italian hand gestures and their meanings, Italian learners will often embark on a trip to Il…

It’s therefore with some delight that we announce the following. In the not-too-distant future, teachers up and down the country will be able to find and contact us through edFirst. Published both in print and online, edFirst’s procurement handbook alone is accessed by over 30,000 schools nationwide. edFirst provides anyone…

Yet this year’s British Council’s Language Trends report, as well as the Cervantes Institute’s 2019 edition of ‘Spanish in the World’, both claim that Spanish will become the second language of choice for language learners in the UK in 2020 — regardless of the UK’s projected withdrawal from the EU…

As contentious as it is cliched, the phrase “you’re never too old to learn” is one familiar to us all. But with Britain’s young turning their backs on modern languages in their droves, perhaps it’s time for them to be reminded that you’re never too young to learn either. For…

As a French guy, I’ve always felt more comfortable writing English than speaking it. But that is about to change. Since a young age, I was always interested in languages and literature, and dreamt one day of being able to jump from Molière to Shakespeare with ease. So, naturally, I…

We’ve all seen young children speaking different languages with their parents. Their capacity to switch from one to another seems as amazing as it does alien to many. But have you ever wondered why there is such a difference between learning a foreign language sooner rather than later? …

Though it sounds like a lot, 24 hours can seem like a millisecond to many of us. Between sleeping, eating, working and watching the odd video on YouTube, there isn’t much time in the day for anything else, let alone a traditional language lesson. The busy bees among you wanting…

At first, the prospect of learning a new language can seem a little daunting. But after time, the process ceases to inspire fear in the hearts of learners and, instead, rouses only feelings of excitement and happiness. There is an entire smorgasbord of factors which makes people want to learn…

While many of the people tasked with delivering Brexit rejoiced at the news of yet another extension to the departure deadline, the banks and business preparing for it simply sighed in exasperation. Over the past three years, the UK’s financial service sector has been taking huge steps to “future-proof” the…