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Welcome to the rambling thoughts of a 50 year old languages teacher with too much time on his hands, most of it spent in the kitchen. If you have any comments or questions about language learning or resources please email or follow me on twitter @dominic_mcg

Sunday, 25 August 2013

Carambar - c'est du sérieux!

Carambar are French sweets, or if you're from across the pond, candy. Each carambar wrapper contains a terrible joke in French. ...

Sunday, 18 August 2013

Translated film titles - a languages game.

As the title suggests, here is another game to play with 6th form or really good KS4 students. When English language films are translated ...

Saturday, 3 August 2013

Néologismes & anglicismes et l'Academie Française

This week I've been looking up "anglicismes". This came about after Terri Dunne posted a link on Facebook to an article ...

Monday, 22 July 2013

Lessons in argot.

It's the holidays. The time of year when I can relax and surf the net for fascinating language learning resources. Today I've di...

Saturday, 20 July 2013

How German Sounds Compared To Other Languages

I found this video on youtube this morning. I found it mildly amusing and decided to share it with you. Enjoy!

Sunday, 14 July 2013

Ackuna.com's Bad Translator

If you are a teacher of languages, chances are, you'll occasionally receive work from students which they didn't do themselves. It...

Friday, 12 July 2013

What Different Languages Think Different Animals Sound Like

Another animal themed blogpost. I saw this on facebook and had to share. It was posted by the Scottish Association of Language Teachers...

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