Tuesday, July 29, 2008

3DLanguage New Versions Available (Spanish - Ordering; ESL - First Version)

3DLanguage, a revolutionary and immersive product for learning language, has finished its most recent releases - for its Spanish product, a new module on ordering food, and for ESL, its first product.

The software is available in beta for free - for more information, go to www.3dlanguage.net.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

UK Language Teaching at All Time Low?

An interesting article in the Register about the state of language instruction in the UK.

An interesting quote from the article (regarding recent changes to programs) -

Laws laments: "They reduce foreign language study to a functional skill that teaches the sort of thing you find in a 'get by' phrase book. It is selling young people short and is unlikely to inspire anyone to see languages as anything other than mechanical and boring."