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When teachers can’t speak the language – how are they going to teach it?

February 15th, 2017|Tags: , , , , , , |

If a teacher cannot speak French or Spanish, how are they able to teach them as subjects? With the numbers of language teachers falling precipitously it's becoming more and more normal for a class to be taught by teachers who cannot themselves speak the language they teach. How can that work? Games like chess can harness human intellect I know many of the world's greatest chess players (in a previous life I ran the world chess championships) and it's interesting that the great Chess Grandmasters have chess coaches. It's interesting in that the chess [...]

Switching suddenly to a second language never fails to impress

April 20th, 2014|Tags: , , , |

James Bond or Jason Bourne - Multi-linguals are very common in Hollywood How many times have we seen films in which the hero switches seamlessly and unexpectedly into a second language? James Bourne or James Bond. It's a common Hollywood trick - along with playing chess - for suggesting high intelligence. I have recently been watching House of Cards and in Series 1, a billionaire suddenly starts talking Chinese on the phone. There were no subtitles but he seemed to be negotiating. Even though it was a TV stunt - I was impressed. It looked cool [...]

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