Which kind of dictionary suits you best?

On Monday, we saw a variety of online dictionaries, all of which are great resources for helping language learners. As well as online dictionaries, there are many other kinds of dictionary that can be useful for people learning a language.

Traditional (paper) dictionaries – These are split into two main types, single-language and dual-language dictionaries. For [...]

Online Dictionaries for Language Learners

Word Search

Online dictionaries are excellent resources for language learners: you can get quick and easy access to a whole world of words, even during a lesson, without having to flick through a giant paper dictionary. Even more useful, the internet is a much better medium for keeping up to date with modern language, with [...]

A big thankyou

Last month (6th to the 14th of March) we were delighted to have Smart FM users online for classes. (www.smart.fm is an online smart learning tool that helps thousands of students reach their learning goals.) The Japanese Smart.fm students had English lessons with some of our best English teachers and we all had a lot [...]

Found In Translation

Found In Translation

For those of you considering learning a language to help you with your careers, I want to bring to your attention one of the most exciting and diverse professions you can have in the modern world: being a translator. Translation is one of those strange jobs: something really essential, especially in today’s [...]

Listen Up!

It seems like an obvious thing to mention but you cannot underestimate the importance of listening skills when learning a language. Listening skills are naturally one of the hardest disciplines to pick up by language students and the one skill that takes the longest to obtain.

Written material is naturally the easiest form of language to [...]