languages

Here at Collins we are celebrating European Day of Languages 2018 by announcing our upcoming annual Vocab Express League of Champions. This is a weeklong competition (10th – 16th October) where secondary schools will go head to head against others around the world… Read More

The new draft criteria for GCSE and the PoS for KS3 place a renewed emphasis on longer pieces of reading material and literary texts. But how do we engage pupils in longer texts in a world where everything has become bite-sized, where book pages look like magazines, where everything is… Read More

I've now come to the end of the second week of my Chinese Challenge, and I'm quite happy with my progress so far! Read More

Meet hyperpolyglot Alex Rawlings, winner of the 2011 Collins Livemocha search for the Most Multilingual Student in Britain  Alex’s  language skills were assessed by  eleven native-speaking judges who all confirmed his  proficiency in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Greek, Catalan, Dutch, Hebrew, Afrikaans, Russian (and English!). Don’t believe us? Then… Read More