Looking for a new way to learn a language? Why not try music? Listening to music in your target language gives you pronunciation guides, colloquial language, and easily repeatable words and phrases; all in about three minutes! Don’t believe us? Well, let’s give you some guidance. Here are some great tips for using music to(…)

If you are looking for a place to visit in the UK that is quintessentially British, look no further than Bath. If it was good enough for Jane Austen, then it’s good enough for all of us, right? Let’s take a look!   Jane Austen Centre   If we are going to visit the chosen(…)

Our next stop on our tour of great cities to visit in the UK is back in the north, in the beautiful Durham. With its proximity to Newcastle airport and great connections with the rest of the country by coach and train, the university city of Durham is definitely worthy of a couple of your(…)

We don’t mean to boast. Okay we do; the United Kingdom has some of the most beautiful and interesting cities just waiting for you to visit. So if you’re looking for your next city break, then how about the Scottish capital of Edinburgh?     Old Town   Edinburgh’s Old Town has so much to(…)

Liverpool might be famous as being home to The Beatles, but there is so much more to it beyond that! Join us; let’s see what this beautiful maritime city, where the River Mersey meets the Irish Sea, has to offer!   The Beatles   Okay, yes, so if you’re visiting Liverpool you could do worse(…)

Happy Hanukkah!   Hanukkah 2018 may be drawing to a close, but that doesn’t mean we can’t look at some of the places around the world that have celebrated Hanukkah — in ways we possibly didn’t expect! Come with us as we take a look!   Australia   Since it is summer in the Southern(…)

Netflix has some of the best Spanish language films and TV shows around. So if you are looking for a way to pick up a little language, or brush up on the Spanish you already acquired, you are definitely in the right place! It’s been hard to pick, but here are five of the best(…)

If you are learning Arabic or are already fluent and looking for a way to keep your language skills fresh, here are some great podcasts for you.     SBS Arabic   SBS Arabic is a great podcast to listen to if you want something current. It is a news bulletin podcast covering what is(…)

Every year there is a group of us who bemoan the new words that enter our dictionaries. There is always someone wailing about the desecration of the sanctity of the English language with phonology that doesn’t sit right on our tongues. So for those few complainers, here is a treat that is sure to cheer(…)