During the lockdown, many companies offered extended free trials of their language learning websites and apps. Ones I used with my pupils include: Education Perfect, Yabla, LanguageNut, TheEverLearner, ImmerseMe, uTalk and ThisIsLanguage. All of them were great in different ways, including customer support and communication. Considering I was a non-paying customer, I was unfailingly impressed […]

At the Stephen Spender Trust we have been busy thinking anew about creative translation: how can this activity, which for a number of years has focused on in-person translation workshops in schools and universities, be adapted for the ‘new normal’?   We felt fortunate that our flagship programme, the Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation, […]

This is a fuller account of the article in LT36 about Natascia Servini’s project with a Y8 Italian classer Sarah Bonnell School in London. This is based on her reflections as to the most effective way forward given current priorities and the context of 2020.   Last academic year I carried out some action research […]