by Wendy Newman | Oct 17, 2016 | ALL News, Language News, News
The 2016/17 edition of the Language Trends survey is now live! Primary and secondary schools across the country should now have received letters asking them to complete the online Language Trends Survey for this year. If your school has been selected as part of this...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 12, 2016 | Language News, News, Russian news
Both the UK and Russia have widely-spoken languages and rich literary traditions, with a deeply held respect for each other’s culture and literature. The UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature 2016 is a joint celebration of written and spoken culture which aims to...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 12, 2016 | Competitions, Language News, News, Russian news
The Pushkin State Russian Language Institute is holding a competition with the support of the British Council as a part of the Russia-UK Year of Language and Literature 2016. The competition will be conducted online, in English, from 05 Oct – 15 Dec 2016, on the...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 12, 2016 | Brexit news, Language News, News
Mentoring scheme extended to encourage foreign language take up: Addressing a serious decline in the number of Welsh pupils learning foreign languages is “urgent” following the Brexit vote, academic warns. EU-student funding guarantee extended: EU students...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 11, 2016 | Language Zones, Russian Practice, Russian Zone
Veronika Makarova, University of Saskatchewan and Eleonora Usenkova, University of Saskatchewan, Parkland College, Canada But Russian! Look at it! I’ll show you: ю ж щ ш ц я and, my least favourite … ы (‘ih’), a special vowel with a pronunciation that suspends all...
