Bonne année is Happy New Year in French. This highlights the relationship between certain pairs of words. Bonjour/Bonne journée, par exemple

Super-friendly adult classes, currently online, but back in the classroom in Hertford and West Berks again soon.

Studying a language? There are several plates to spin: 1. learn vocab 2. learn grammar points 3. improve comprehension 4. get a good accent

Or should I go with the more scholarly title: How is Romanian related to Portuguese? Continuing the mini-series of European languages and...

In our advanced French class this week we looked at a list of political correct-isms. You know the kind of thing: You can no longer say...

- Merci beaucoup. - De rien. Knowing how to say thank-you-You’re-welcome is surely in the Top 5 of any new language...

Discussion point: “English is the most tonal of all European languages.” The Swede could make a similar claim, but they do it in a...

Believe it or not, December 5th is International Pear Day. I might have let this one go, but we can have some fun with pears in our three...

Il y a quatre âges dans la vie de l’homme : - Celui où il croit au Père Noël - Celui où il ne croit plus au Père Noël.....

"H aspiré" it sounds like the h at the beginning of the word should be pronounced, but it is not. However, it does not allow elision...

"N'importe quoi" is an important, commonly-used expression. First meaning: anything, but it has more playful uses...

Humour: one of the best tools of the linguist, whether to understand the target language/culture or to laugh at ourselves - and with others

Learning birds' names in foreign languages is considered 'next level' vocabulary. Here's a start...

how to type accents on foreign words, special characters, “diacritics”. Here is a range of options for how to do it

Learning idiomatic expressions in a foreign language can pose a series of challenges, but feels great when you get it right