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B1-C2 learner of French? Check out the latest issue of our intermediate to advanced #French audio magazine #BienDire, numéro 163, novembre - décembre 2025. #LearnFrench #apprendrelefrançais #langsky buff.ly/3Z2h2lQ
Bien-dire 163 Cover.
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How to save the King’s English buff.ly/ES1XDZq #langsky #xl8
How to save the King’s English
When a survey of 10,000 teachers revealed this month that Britain’s primary school pupils are increasingly relying on Americanisms (the Times front page declared ‘Trash-talking children are sounding…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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☃️🎄Speak #French, #Spanish, #Italian, #German? Speak it better with our Christmas subscription promotion to Bien-dire, Bien-dire Initial, Punto y Coma, Tutto italiano and Presse und Sprache audio magazines. Special offer with this link. buff.ly/61hQsU2 🎄🤶
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November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Parasocial is named as Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year buff.ly/u972ZC5 #langsky #xl8
Parasocial is named as Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year
Examples include the parasocial interest shown by fans to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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☃️🎄Speak #French, #Spanish, #Italian, #German? Speak it better with our Christmas subscription promotion to Bien-dire, Bien-dire Initial, Punto y Coma, Tutto italiano and Presse und Sprache audio magazines. Special offer with this link. buff.ly/hqeOXcY 🎄🤶 #langsky #xl8
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November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Universities blame ‘societal shift’ for axing foreign language degrees buff.ly/fTvyH0x #langsky #xl8
Universities blame ‘societal shift’ for axing foreign language degrees
Numbers taking languages at A-level and beyond has been falling for decades, although Duolingo says its app is most popular with young people
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November 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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☃️🎄Speak #French, #Spanish, #Italian, #German? Speak it better with our Christmas subscription promotion to Bien-dire, Bien-dire Initial, Punto y Coma, Tutto italiano and Presse und Sprache audio magazines. Special offer with this link. buff.ly/61hQsU2 🎄🤶 #langsky #xl8
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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In praise of learning German www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-p... #langsky #xl8
In praise of learning German
The University of Nottingham has just announced that it is closing its languages department. This is a mistake.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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☃️🎄Speak #French, #Spanish, #Italian, #German? Speak it better with our Christmas subscription promotion to Bien-dire, Bien-dire Initial, Punto y Coma, Tutto italiano and Presse und Sprache audio magazines. Special offer with this link. buff.ly/4fOrkw0%F0%9... #langsky #xl8
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November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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How are numbers viewed and expressed in different #languages. Discover how the language you speak affects how you count things.

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#linguistics 🐦🐦 #language #languagelearning #langsky #writesky
The Math Isn’t Mathing Across Languages
A look at how different cultures count things
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November 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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This free online workshop “From linguistic research to classroom practice: how different perspectives shape #grammar #teaching” may be of interest to teachers on here: linguisticsinmfl.co.uk/events/works... #edusky #langsky #linguistics @inmfl.bsky.social @saschastollhans.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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☃️🎄Speak #French, #Spanish, #Italian, #German? Speak it better with our Christmas subscription promotion to Bien-dire, Bien-dire Initial, Punto y Coma, Tutto italiano and Presse und Sprache audio magazines. Special offer with this link. buff.ly/4fOrkw0%F0%9... #langsky #xl8
Audio Magazines | Italian, Spanish, German and French Magazines
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November 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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☃️🎄Speak #French, #Spanish, #Italian, #German? Speak it better with our Christmas subscription promotion to Bien-dire, Bien-dire Initial, Punto y Coma, Tutto italiano and Presse und Sprache audio magazines. Special offer with this link. buff.ly/4fOrkw0%F0%9... #langsky #xl8
Audio Magazines | Italian, Spanish, German and French Magazines
Check out our superb range of Italian, Spanish, German and French audio magazines available by subscription. Perfect for intermediate and advanced learners. Shop now.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #langsky #xl8
Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM
Katrín Jakobsdóttir and her co-author want the 350,000 people who speak the language to fight for its future
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November 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas buff.ly/3gyxsXR #langsky #xl8
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
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November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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B1-C2 learner of French? Check out the latest issue of our intermediate to advanced #French audio magazine #BienDire, numéro 163, novembre - décembre 2025. #LearnFrench #apprendrelefrançais #langsky buff.ly/3Z2h2lQ
Bien-dire 163 Cover.
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Learning French taught me to love English buff.ly/BmonPwE #langsky #xl8
Learning French taught me to love English
One of the greatest dangers posed by the government’s curriculum review is that it will result in children abandoning more demanding subjects
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November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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What the Romans did for the English language buff.ly/alwgmm9 #langsky #xl8
What the Romans did for the English language
Nearly 60 per cent of our modern English vocabulary traces its roots and origins back thousands of years to Ancient Rome
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November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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'Vibe coding' named word of the year by Collins Dictionary buff.ly/bG6ZsIZ #langsky #xl8
'Vibe coding' named word of the year by Collins Dictionary
The art of making an app by describing it to artificial intelligence (AI) tops 10 new terms on the shortlist.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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How often do you use American words instead of English ones? www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/vi... #langsky #xl8
How often do you use American words instead of English ones?
How often do you find yourself using American words instead of the English version? A survey of teachers found that some feel that too many of their pupils are using US words.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Cooish festival celebrates Isle of Man traditional language buff.ly/DVD3pDo #langsky #xl8
Cooish festival celebrates Isle of Man traditional language
The annual Cooish festival celebrating Manx Gaelic takes place across the island from Wednesday.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Sí, oui, ja! You can learn a language late in life buff.ly/2NbCPdP #langsky #xl8
Sí, oui, ja! You can learn a language late in life
Don’t be put off by age or the myth of perfectionism
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November 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Oireachtas na Samhna: 'The Irish language is everything to me' buff.ly/3RN5ze3 #langsky #xl8
Oireachtas na Samhna: 'The Irish language is everything to me'
Thousands from across the island and beyond came together in Belfast for Oireachtas na Samhna, Ireland's oldest Irish language gathering.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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George Orwell classics Animal Farm and 1984 translated into Welsh buff.ly/HhrIMlc #langsky #xl8
George Orwell classics Animal Farm and 1984 translated into Welsh
Animal Farm and 1984 will both be published in Welsh for the first time.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM