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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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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
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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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🎁 Best Christmas Deals on New Language Courses - buff.ly/ZdYV66s
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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
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'My parents translate for me during family calls' - BBC News buff.ly/U8jCGmp #langsky #xl8
'My parents translate for me during family calls' - BBC News
Bilal Ahmady was born in Leicester but his parents and wider family are from Afghanistan.
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October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world buff.ly/vt8gBwp #langsky #xl8
Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world
Once dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, researchers now argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked
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October 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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How Accents Became Hollywood’s New Six-Pack buff.ly/NcdtWzy #langsky #xl8
How Accents Became Hollywood’s New Six-Pack
From Florence Pugh to Paul Mescal, global stars are redefining what authenticity sounds like — and audiences are keeping score.
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October 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Alliance Française Leeds are offering free online French lessons as part of Leeds City of Languages. If you would like to find out more about them and how to sign up check our website: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/onlin... #leedscityoflanguages #french #languages
October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Studi italiano a livello intermedio o avanzato? È appena uscito l’ultimo numero di Tutto Italiano, N.66, l’audiorivista per studenti B1-C2 di Italiano. buff.ly/3Uu89Pr #ImparaItaliano #TuttoItaliano #learnitalian @liviaborghese.bsky.social #langsky
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October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Herbert List - Trastevere, Rome (1953)
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June 2, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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What Parents Need To Know: AI and its Impact on Homework
Rita Bateson, co-founder and Director of Education at Eblana Learning, which provides AI guidance for international schools and teachers
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October 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Endangered languages and vanishing landscapes
Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin, with Adam Rutherford
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October 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Shrewsbury influencer helps others to learn new languages buff.ly/aevbtt4 #langsky #xl8
Shrewsbury influencer helps others to learn new languages
Reuben Constantine has almost 120,000 followers, and teaches other people how to learn languages.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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‘Not a wake but a hurlamaboc’: Manchán Magan and the rise of the Irish language buff.ly/WOU9m2S #langsky #xl8
‘Not a wake but a hurlamaboc’: Manchán Magan and the rise of the Irish language
Ireland’s ancient language and folklore are having a renaissance. For the Celtic-curious, Magan, who died last week, is a wonderful place to start
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October 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Gruff Rhys: ‘Welsh is still being invented as a pop language’ buff.ly/Fuy6dCl #langsky #xl8
Gruff Rhys: ‘Welsh is still being invented as a pop language’
The Super Furry Animals frontman is back with his ninth solo album. Before a tour of regional village halls in Wales, he talks creating songs in his first language – and why English is the best for…
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October 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Beginner or intermediate learner of French? The latest issue of #BienDireInitial French language-learning audio magazine, numéro 53, octobre - novembre 2025 is out now! To subscribe or learn more: buff.ly/3LQNHTY #LearnFrench #apprendrelefrançais #langsky
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October 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Does a bit of booze really make us better at languages? – podcast buff.ly/qJ4JSeg #langsky #xl8
Does a bit of booze really make us better at languages? – podcast
The Ig Nobel prizes were awarded recently - for science that makes you laugh and then think - and the peace prize was given to a cheeky study testing the link between alcohol and language…
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October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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6.4% of EU primary pupils learn multiple languages buff.ly/PccN2ne #langsky #xl8
6.4% of EU primary pupils learn multiple languages
In 2023, 6.4% of primary school pupils in the EU were learning 2 or more foreign languages. Between 2013 and 2023, this share increased by 1.8 percentage points (pp) from 4.6%. Luxembourg was the…
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September 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM