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Introduction to Italian – Università per Stranieri di Siena (UniStraSi)

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Why not having a look at this online free course by the Future Learn website, to introduce oneself to some basic Italian?

If you know any Spanish at all (and all Cardinal Newman students know even a bit, don´t let yourself be underestimated) this shouldn´t be very challenging.

Quite on the contrary, it is a great opportunity to open your knowledge of languages a bit more! And remember it is an adding skill, learners always build on top of what they know, so the more they learn, the easier it will be to learn more!

Source: Introduction to Italian – Università per Stranieri di Siena (UniStraSi)

Duolingo

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Sometimes the students find themselves in the position of wanting to practice their Spanish or even getting started in a simple and accessible way, but they don’t know how to do it.

Here there is a very interesting webpage that allows the students to work on their Spanish in a fun way. They can access either from a computer or their mobile phones, but the mobile app is very good, so there it is: practice and have fun at the same time!

Duolingo website

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Garfield en español

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Reading books and comics in the language one is learning, in addition to listening to music or the radio, helps an awful lot to increase one´s language skills.

Here you can see one simple example. Why not read a bit of Garfield everyday? Never mind if it seems a little thing, the key is to do it regularly.

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For reading more, click here.

 

Language Assistants

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For those pupils who like travelling and learning new things and about new cultures, here there is an extraordinary opportunity to consider for later on, when studying further education.

girl_teaching_in_class_630x354A Language Assistant is someone who goes to another country and helps some school(s) to teach English and its culture. This is a fantastic context to improve the foreign language skills as well as living new experiences in a different cultural environment.

To read more about it from the British Council Webpage, see https://www.britishcouncil.org/language-assistants/become

Also, you may be wondering what would make a pupil eligible? See here:

https://www.britishcouncil.org/language-assistants/become/eligibility 

Here you can see How to apply, so you know for the future…

It certainly is a wonderful experience about teaching and learning not just about language, but about life!