Typing Accents On the iPhone (1)
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So you've joined the legion of other iPhone users, learned how to zoom in and out using the iPhone Multi-Touch interface, and have even installed a few iPhone apps for...
Change in Language, Change in Meaning (1)
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If you look over our list of Spanish words in English, you'll notice that many them have different meanings, often more narrow meanings, than they had originally. And that is...
Quiz of the week: Tu vs Vous (1)
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Do you know when to use tu and when to use vous? They both mean "you," but there's a lot more to it in French. Test yourself with this quiz...
Why Study Italian? (1)
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Ever wonder why we should study Italian? Some of the top 10 reasons to learn Italian include the ability to read La Divina Commedia as Dante wrote it, as well...
Standard Italian (Not) Spoken Here (1)
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Standard Italian. That's what's spoken in Italy, and that's what you study in textbooks. Otherwise, why would you study it? Standard Italian. That's what's written in Italian newspapers, magazines, and...
Need for Noun-Adjective Agreement Is Fundamental Rule (1)
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One of the basic rules of Spanish grammar is that nouns must agree in number and gender with the adjectives that accompany them. If you're new to learning Spanish, this...
Learn French (1)
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Bienvenue and welcome to Learn French at About! This free website has hundreds of French lessons and thousands of sound files to help you learn French. You'll also find French dictionaries reviews...
The Exchange of Money (PDF) (1)
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Jose the Travel Bear Hits the Road Again (1)
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If you have followed Langwitches Blog for a while, you know that my elementary school has received a grant to allow two teachers to travel abroad for two weeks each year. The experience is being shared and involves the rest of the school through technology, a year long study of the country and an immersion week of one target grade. I have been one of the lucky teachers to have traveled to: China in 2006 ...
More from Zattoo... (1)
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Well, having gone crazy when I saw all these French channels on Zattoo before the holidays, I was gutted when I saw that the next day they'd gone. Thankfully a very polite chap called Alex, from Zattoo itself, messaged me to say that it was an error, and that they'd gone, but that they had had a number of requests for more French channels. So today I logged on again to see TV8 Mont-Blanc, a ...
High quality, copyright free images for use in publications (1)
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Sometimes you need a picture that you can use in published materials. There are lots of free sites available but if you are struggling have a look at Alamy. This valuable new picture resource for teachers, lecturers and academics has been launched by Alamy, the largest stock photo site on the web. Its Limited Use scheme offers access to the world’s largest online collection of photographs from as little as 60p per image and without ...
Last chance to vote for your favourite LAFTAs video (1)
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With the deadline for the LAFTAs People’s Vote approaching fast, this is your last chance to choose which shortlisted video clip should be awarded a special prize at the LAFTAs Ceremony later this month.
Faux Amis (1)
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Learn five new word pairs that look alike in French and English but mean very different things: agréable/agreeable, cave, date, infect, and versatile. Related lesson: True Cognates...
Multilingual Translation (1)
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European Day of Languages (1)
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Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: Paul Parkinson on top recording tips for podcasting teachers (2)
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Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom: (20)
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Paul Parkinson is a professional level podcaster and former editor of soon to be relaunched free pdf downloadable Podcast User Magazine. In the following hour long interview, he offers some great tips and guidance on how to achieve good quality audio recordings in a number of different educational contexts. These include: recording with a microphone and computer for teacher-produced or pupil-produced podcasts recording in class with a digital voice recorder recording conference sessions or lessons ...
25% discount on T-Shirts as schools get ready for European Day of Languages (1)
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With less than three weeks left to go, primary and secondary schools around the UK are gearing up to celebrate the European Day of Languages on 26 September.
Which 'You' Do You Use? (1)
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If you've been studying Spanish for a while, knowing which word for "you" to use — usted, tú, vosotros, or ustedes — is something that you don't have to think...
Recording Skype calls with Pamela (1)
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In the first of these two videos, Nik Peachey demonstrates how to install the free version of Pamela to allow you to record the audio of Skype calls (up to 15 minutes) either with another Skype user (for free) or to a landline or mobile phone (credit needed). In the second video, he shows how Pamela launches automatically whenever you try to make a call and requests whether you would like to make a recording ...