Monthly Archives: February 2012

How do you become fluent in 11 languages?

Inspirational Friday fun: video on the BBC web site of twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings, the winnner of a national competition to find the UK's most multi-lingual student, explaining in 11 differen...

READ MORE | 24 Feb 2012
Digital tools 'to save languages'

Digital technology often gets accused of accelerating the rise of English at the expense of other languages, but according to a piece on the BBC Technology pages, the internet could be the salvation o...

READ MORE | 20 Feb 2012
French cyclist breaks age group record for The Hour - three months after his 100th birthday

Here's a story to put a pep in your step at the end of a long week: A 100-year-old cyclist from France has set a new age group world record for The Hour an incredible 86 years after his first competit...

READ MORE | 17 Feb 2012
Interview on RFI with the André Goosse, editor of Le Bon Usage

Fascinating interview on RFI with the André Goosse, editor of Le Bon Usage, the bible of French grammar, to mark the recent publication of the 15th edition. Goosse talks about the differences i...

READ MORE | 15 Feb 2012
Folklorist’s Global Jukebox Goes Digital

Very exciting news: the folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax's huge collection of original sound recordings and films of folk musicians is to be digitised and will be shortly available for stre...

READ MORE | 3 Feb 2012