by wordsmith | Feb 15, 2017 | News
New research would appear to show, what experts have suspected for a long time; that bilingual or monolingual individuals have brains which function more efficiently and more economically, a benefit which grows over time. Years of bilingualism seems to mean that the...
by wordsmith | Feb 7, 2017 | News
This month researchers at the University of California have published a study which seems to suggest that Mandarin Chinese makes you more musical. The paper in Developmental Science (January 2017) reported that in experiments, a group of pre-school children whose...
by wordsmith | Jan 11, 2017 | News
A professor of linguistics at the University of Essex has recently tried to prove the age-old maxim that young children pick up a new language “like a sponge” with considerable success. The idea that as we get older, we find it more difficult to learn a foreign...
by wordsmith | Jan 7, 2017 | News
A four year old Russian girl has stunned tv audiences with her ability to converse confidently in …. Different languages. Bella Devyatkin appeared on a national talent programme Udivitelniye Lyudi – “Incredible People” and was questioned on several topics by adult...
by wordsmith | Jan 3, 2017 | News
In spite of the increasing demand for modern language skills, we are still witnessing a decline in the teaching of modern languages in our schools. Last year only 48% of GCSE students took at least one modern language – all this, even though the new EBACC aims to get...
