by rachelm | Mar 1, 2017 | Competitions, German event, German events, German Network, News
This year marks the 14th annual German Teacher Awards. The purpose of the German Teacher Awards is to: recognise the outstanding achievement by individual teachers of German in the UK highlight and pay tribute to the work of German language teachers in primary and...
by rachelm | Feb 3, 2017 | Corporate Member News, German events, German News, News
The UK-German Connection currently have some summer courses on offer, which are open for application. The first programme is a two-week part-funded German Pupil course for pupils in Years 10 or 12. You can find further information on this programme at...
by rachelm | Feb 1, 2017 | Competitions, Events, Japanese event, Japanese events
Applications for the Japanese Speech Contest, the Nihongo Cup, are now open. Details: The contest is split into three categories: Key Stage 3, Key Stages 4 and 5 Pre-GCSE and Key Stages 4 and 5 Post-GCSE. Please click here to see the Nihongo Cup Information and Rules....
by M D | Jul 13, 2016 | ALL Language, Corporate Member News, South East
Take a look at what Ewen Baird, Head of Languages, and his class at Aylesbury High School think of thisislanguage.com in our latest case study video. Join over 500 UK schools in introducing authentic language to your GCSE and iGCSE classes! Contact us to arrange a...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Portuguese articles, Portuguese events, Portuguese news
Maria José Veiga (Researcher at the University of Aveiro, Transmedia Portugal) INTRODUCTION In the second half of the 20th century, foreign language teaching methods within the Portuguese Education system have proved to be translation resistant. By the end of the...
by Wendy Newman | Sep 1, 2013 | World languages events
UK winners of the European Language Label 2013 They include: Arabic Online Arabic is entirely surrounded by myths. It is seen by many European learners as a very difficult language to learn, with a complicated grammatical system, too many exotic sounds, complex...