LLAS/Why study...? downloadable calendar - January 2012, Icelandic

This calendar, for the month of January 2012, in Icelandic, was produced by LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. It was created with help from teachers working on the JISC-funded Community Cafe project. Look out for another language next month! Quiz questions and answers are also included. This is the fifth of a 16-month series lasting until Dec 2012. A printed 'Why study..?' calendar for 2012 is now available from www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/calendar. It is FREE, with £3.50 p+p

A taste of Hungarian

This material is a taster of not only Hungarian but language learning in general. It can be used with students considering to start learning a new language, especially Hungarian. It takes about 60 minutes to complete in a small group setting (up to 5 people) and 90 minutes in a larger class

Speaking Drills 1-4

Speaking practice for beginners. Role play. To be used in class after introducing "--- ni ikimasu/ikimashita" sentence pattern. Can be used for writing practice

LLAS/Why study...? downloadable calendar - November 2012, Welsh

This calendar, for the month of November 2012, in Welsh, was produced by LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. It was created with help from teachers working on the JISC-funded Community Cafe project. Look out for another language next month! Quiz questions and answers are also included. This is the fifteenth of a 16-month series lasting until Dec 2012. We are currently in production of our 2013 calendar, pre-order your copy at: https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/calenda

Kangas with Wedding Messages

These kangas are also called visutu (plural)or kisutu (plural) and those I have found on Lamu island shops in Kenya are typically with no messages and have a unique design as demonstrated here. They are often worn for ceremonies to do with marriage, and sometimes used for spiritual events. It is interesting to note that while the original colours were black red and white,touristic demands have changed this; while the design remains the same. The light blue/white kanga shown here sends a message wishing for a happy wedding, but it is not a kisutu. A translation document is included

Relative Clause/Relative Nouns

Step by step grammar explanation for Relative Clause and follow up exercise

Contrastive English-Chinese Translation Exercises for了

了is notoriously difficult for learners of Chinese. The majority of the contrastive sentences have no difference at all but 了, to highlight the change in meaning when 了is present.In translating them, the students are also asked to supply a context so that the sentences make sense

The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Background information about the 3rd edition of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, in print and on-line formats, edited by Christopher Mosele

The Latvian alphabet

Introduction to the Latvian alphabet and spelling rule

Preparing students for their Year Abroad in the Hispanic World

We will share the TEACHERS' BOOK with the answer keys for all the exercises, all the transcriptions and some audio tracks, *FREE OF CHARGE* to all teachers currently using or would like to adopt the texbook, here in Language Box, from the end of August 2012. Watch this space! Many thanks for taking the time to read this. The author