Marbella half marathon

By Kathryn Stride on September 29, 2012 08:53

LanguageLinker are running the Marbella half marathon tomorrow! If you're in Marbella tomorrow morning, and you see us, give us a cheer and a wave!! We will of course have our famous LanguageLinker T-shirts on!.

Running the half marathon is part of training we're doing for the Madrid marathon next year. Unfortunately we didn't get a place in the London marathon despite our best hopes! So its Madrid 2013 and hope for London marathon in 2014! 

We are running for cancer research in both Spain and the UK, so if you're interested in sponsoring us we will post details of how you can when our places are confirmed.

Wish us good luck!

(We'll let you know how we get on)!!

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European Day of Languages

By Kathryn Stride on September 26, 2012 08:27

                           Happy European Day of Languages!                                

26th September marks the European day of Languages. This day celebrates the 6000+ languages spoken around the world and to help promote multilingual fun and learning of languages.

Each language has it's own culture and heritage that goes with it. The European Day of Languages aims to show people across Europe just how important languages are, and the fun that can be had by learning them!

Here are a few ways for you to get involved:

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  Enjoy food or drink from another country, perhaps try some Spanish tapas, Italian coffee, French wine, German sausage, Scottish haggis.......the list is endless!.

  
  


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  Organise a quiz in your worklplace/school/college with a European theme.

  
  


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  Try to learn atleast 1 new word in your chosen language each day this week.

  
  


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  Interested in working abroad? Start looking into international work opportunities today!.

  
  


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  Send an e-mail greeting to your customers in their own language.

  
  


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  Learn how to greet someone and say your name in British Sign Language.

  
  


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  Share the languages you know, teach your colleagues/friends/family a few new words!.

  
  


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  Organise an international sports tournament.

  
  


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  Enjoy a multilingual pub crawl.

  
  

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Most difficult language to learn....

By Kathryn Stride on September 25, 2012 07:33

 What is the most difficult language to learn?? French, English, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese........???

We personally think that all languages have their difficulties and this will be different for each nationality. For a native English person for example, we are mainly taught French and German at School (some lucky students also get taught Spanish - I wasn't one of these unfortunately)! Once you have learnt French or even just basic French it gives a good base to then learn Spanish and Italian as the word orders (grammar) tend to be the same.German has it's similarities to English and also the word order is the same so this helps with learning.

Perhaps Mandarin or Japanese are amongst the most difficult for many nationalties! Not only do you have to learn a whole new alphabet - all letters become symbols, you have to learn new sounds to speak it on top of all the other difficulties when learning a language. I think I'll stick to learning Spanish for now :0)

I'm in awe of people that speak a number of different languages, I think it's one of the most interesting and useful qualities a person can have. It can also help with your career and the world really opens up to you. Of course, just some languages are more difficult than others but it's worth it in the end!

¡Saludos!

Kathryn

The LanguageLinker Team

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