5 fun ways to improve your language skills during your coffee break

We learnt about Italian coffee-culture on the learn2lingo blog earlier this week. Actually, a coffee break is an ideal time to squeeze in a bit of language practice, too. Here are five easy activities you can do in your coffee break to improve your language skills.

1. Read. It sounds simple but reading in your second [...]

Latte, Italian Style

Do not drink after 11am

There is an observational joke that I have heard, by an Italian comic, Roberto Benigni, about coffee in the UK. It goes something like this:

‘I came over to England, and the coffee was awful. So, the next time I visited, I brought coffee with me –still disgusting. So, [...]

Where is your favourite place to study?

One of the best things about learning a language online is that you can study almost anywhere you want. All you need is a computer and a good internet connection and you’re ready to go.

The same thing goes for teachers. They can teach from anywhere and although they need to look smart if they are [...]

Machine Translation - An Opinion

Rusty Translation

Following on from the post about online dictionaries, I thought that I would pay a little attention to another resource that language learners, at some point or another, likely have come across and used: the internet machine translator. The most well known online, at least to me, are probably those offered by Google, [...]

It's award time

The nice people over at the Lexiophiles blog have nominated us for their Top 100 Language Blogs award. If you have time, please visit their blog and vote for us.

The Lexiophiles blog is a really interesting place to hang out, too. After you’ve finished voting, take some time to have a look around the blog [...]