Learning English lessons online from your home without going to school is not a new idea: in the old days, the rich hired governesses and nannies for their children. These were foreigners who lived in a house and taught the…
What does it mean to be bilingual? If you can speak two languages fluently, you can call yourself bilingual. In this age of global connectivity, many people are even multilingual and have learned many languages. Why then does the debate…
Every communicative act conducted by means of oral language aims at: informing, communicating, persuading our interlocutor or a wider audience. The communicative act normally involves more than one speaker: this renders the development of a connection indispensable for the successful…
The European Day of Languages (2001), organized in collaboration with the Council of Europe and the European Union, has brought together millions of people from 45 countries. Through various activities, linguistic diversity in Europe is celebrated and language learning is…
