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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Sep 8
B1-C2 learner of French? Check out the latest issue of our intermediate to advanced #French audio magazine #BienDire, numéro 162, septembre - octobre 2025. #LearnFrench #apprendrelefrançais #langsky buff.ly/3Z2h2lQ
Bien-dire 162 front cover.
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · 7d
Does a bit of booze really make us better at languages? – podcast buff.ly/qJ4JSeg #langsky #xl8
Does a bit of booze really make us better at languages? – podcast
The Ig Nobel prizes were awarded recently - for science that makes you laugh and then think - and the peace prize was given to a cheeky study testing the link between alcohol and language…
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · 9d
6.4% of EU primary pupils learn multiple languages buff.ly/PccN2ne #langsky #xl8
6.4% of EU primary pupils learn multiple languages
In 2023, 6.4% of primary school pupils in the EU were learning 2 or more foreign languages. Between 2013 and 2023, this share increased by 1.8 percentage points (pp) from 4.6%. Luxembourg was the…
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · 9d
House of Guinness Irish subtitles 'step in right direction' for language buff.ly/PPX6Sct #langsky #xl8
House of Guinness Irish subtitles 'step in right direction' for language
Netflix said: "The addition of Irish subtitles is part of Netflix's ongoing commitment to Irish members and the country's creative sector."
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · 11d
Welsh word from Race Across the World added to OED buff.ly/srfyFLr #langsky #xl8
Welsh word from Race Across the World added to OED
Fin Gough and Sioned Cray's saying poody confused producers but is in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · 12d
Why kids won’t learn languages buff.ly/YUZzf29 #langsky #xl8
Why kids won’t learn languages
New data has revealed that a third of state sixth-forms in England do not have a single person studying French, German or Spanish A-level.
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · 13d
How speaking in a second language directly affects your moral judgement buff.ly/7hozq3X #langsky #xl8
How speaking in a second language directly affects your moral judgement
The ‘moral foreign language effect’ makes you more rational, and less emotional.
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · 15d
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Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?
As people read less they think less clearly, scholars fear
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · 22d
Cornish clung on as living language beyond Dolly Pentreath, says writer buff.ly/SJ3Mq4p #langsky #xl8
Cornish clung on as living language beyond Dolly Pentreath, says writer
Author of new book suggests Kernewek continued to be spoken in the 19th century, albeit in ‘tiny numbers’
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Sep 8
B1-C2 learner of French? Check out the latest issue of our intermediate to advanced #French audio magazine #BienDire, numéro 162, septembre - octobre 2025. #LearnFrench #apprendrelefrançais #langsky buff.ly/3Z2h2lQ
Bien-dire 162 front cover.
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Sep 4
Speak German? Speak it Better with a Subscription to Presse und Sprache for #German Learners (A2-C2). No 69-9, September 2025, now out. buff.ly/3MD90bW #langsky
Presse und Sprache 69-09 September 2025 cover.
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Sep 3
This new tech could save old languages from dying out | CNN Business buff.ly/e1XF85a #langsky #xl8
This new tech could save old languages from dying out | CNN Business
Like many of the young people in her Indigenous Anishinaabe community in the upper peninsula of Michigan, Danielle Boyer grew up speaking only a little of her people’s native language,…
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 24
How do you get boys to learn languages? In a word: football buff.ly/2Lkr8Cw #langsky #xl8
How do you get boys to learn languages? In a word: football
French lessons are très populaires at a Glasgow secondary school that is taking teaching out of the classroom and on to the sports pitch
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 24
Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer buff.ly/NqqEKjq #langsky #xl8
Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer
For all the talk of addressing the problem, things have got worse. Which is criminal when there is so much we could do, says journalist Sophia Smith Galer
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 22
Au revoir to French: Spanish becomes most popular language GCSE buff.ly/dzziDuS #langsky #xl8
Au revoir to French: Spanish becomes most popular language GCSE
More than 136,000 studied español for this year’s exams, as holidays and La Liga football help increase its appeal
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 21
Failure to study languages ‘damages Britain’s reputation’ buff.ly/tLRnzH2 #langsky #xl8
Failure to study languages ‘damages Britain’s reputation’
The former schools minister says it may be time to return to make the study of a foreign language compulsory at GCSE
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 21
Culture and horizons of young Britons limited without language buff.ly/MWR39m6 #langsky #xl8
Culture and horizons of young Britons limited without language
The study of French, German and classical languages has fallen over the past decade, and will only harm our nation
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 20
The little French town showing us all what it means to be British buff.ly/I2p75dP #langsky #xl8
The little French town showing us all what it means to be British
Quaint La Gacilly is currently the unlikely home of a photographic exhibition dedicated to British eccentricities
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 20
Does Language Shape How We Think About the Future? buff.ly/T7LBtgO #langsky #xl8
Does Language Shape How We Think About the Future?
Some languages, like English, require a future tense, while others do not. Does that affect how speakers make decisions about the future?
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 19
The C.E.O. of Duolingo Wants to Have a Conversation About A.I. buff.ly/TPUkiIh #langsky #xl8
The C.E.O. of Duolingo Wants to Have a Conversation About A.I.
The language-learning app with more than 100 million users has embraced artificial intelligence but has also faced consumer backlash for it.
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 19
Learning languages helps us to unlock cultures buff.ly/zxqaZfB #langsky #xl8
Learning languages helps us to unlock cultures
Brits cannot always rely on English and not everything can be mediated through translation
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 18
A German city mobilizes to save Sorbian, a vanishing Slavic language - The Washington Post buff.ly/YXuRugp #langsky #xl8
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 18
'Skibidi' and 'tradwife' among words added to Cambridge Dictionary buff.ly/ACJG4XI #langsky #xl8
'Skibidi' and 'tradwife' among words added to Cambridge Dictionary
More than 6,000 new terms feature, including some relating to remote working and rich tech giants.
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 15
Will AI make language dubbing easy for film and TV? buff.ly/JyyrAzO #langsky #xl8
Will AI make language dubbing easy for film and TV?
New tech promises to dub film and TV into different languages without losing the quality of the performance.
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 7
'We had no idea of what it would become': How Keep Calm and Carry On became a divisive 21st-Century phenomenon
'We had no idea of what it would become': How Keep Calm and Carry On became a divisive 21st-Century phenomenon
After a forgotten WW2 propaganda poster was discovered in 2000, it found an astounding new resonance in 21st-Century Britain.
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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Aug 6
The Origin of Language by Madeleine Beekman review – the suprising history of speech buff.ly/xHg4CRl #langsky #xl8
The Origin of Language by Madeleine Beekman review – the suprising history of speech
It takes a village to raise a child – and that’s why we started speaking, argues an evolutionary biologist
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