“Vous ne pouvez aller de l’avant..” My #French is dodgy but not as bad as my companion’s. I look at her face and translate what I think the guide has said… that we can only go forward, not back. She looks at me with horror and I grimace. Ahead of us lies one long tunnel lined floor to ceiling with bones! Shaking off a severe case of the heebie-jeebies I walk onwards and try to stop looking to the side of me but I can’t. I find myself fixated with the varying sizes of sku

I am a Playstation gamer, not an obsessive one, but I do #play enough to know my way around without even thinking about it. My family from France came to visit me this week and they don't speak, read or write any English. I changed the #language setting on the Playstation to #French so that they could understand it, and in the process learned a few things myself… When you’re a habitual user of something and you can do it with your eyes closed, why not try changing the languag

#France is seeing an increase in the number of young people #emigrating #overseas. Surely, its rising #unemployment rate plays a part? It’s not just young #professionals that flee for #work – ironically enough, even the most unqualified aim abroad in order to find basic jobs, from #waiters in #restaurants to #office secretaries. Whilst #employment is already strained, the #financial crisis diffusing and deepening itself across Europe does nothing to help the situation, or boo

Doing #business in a multilingual context is about more than just mastering different #languages. In successfully #communicating with a foreign business partner, colleague, or client, you also need to know how to #navigate between cultures. This can be really crucial in negotiations, where different countries might have different ideas on how to conduct them, and people might be insulted if you –unknowingly– cross a line. But sometimes, these cultural differences display them

The brain continues to answer to the sound of a #language listened and learned during early #childhood, according to a research that highlights the importance of the first years of life. A child's #brain exposed at a very young age to a language builds representations of the sounds, but it was unknown until now if there was a long-lasting memory of them even when the child is no longer exposed to that language, explain the researchers. To answer this question, the researchers