At its 14–15 October meeting, the Council of Europe’s European Centre for Modern Languages adopted its 2027 programme and previewed resources on teachers’ plurilingual wellbeing, subject-language teaching and adapting materials for democratic education. Their first language versions are expected in January.
Read the story ↗From the words on a page to the voice in a room. Explore how we learn, speak, write, translate, and connect.
Find your starting point ↗A corpus lets you inspect words in many real contexts. Search a phrase, compare concordance lines and text types, then use the patterns as evidence for a choice—not as a rule that every speaker follows.
A bilingual dictionary can suggest a useful equivalent, but the right choice depends on the sentence, grammar, tone and audience. Use it as a map: compare meanings, inspect examples and collocations, then test the candidate in your own sentence.
Build language skill through a repeatable loop: choose a real task, study useful material, retrieve it from memory, use it to communicate, then adjust from feedback. A concrete weekly routine makes progress visible.
Spoken word poetry is poetry composed or shaped for oral performance, where voice, rhythm, pause, and audience attention contribute to its meaning. It overlaps with written poetry and performance, but it is not a single fixed form.
Active listening means showing that you are attending to a speaker’s meaning and checking your understanding before responding. Try brief paraphrases, clarifying questions, and pauses that leave room for correction.
The CEFR is a framework for describing language ability across listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Its six familiar levels, A1 to C2, summarize broad profiles; they are reference points rather than complete measures of a person.
Twelve subjects. Plenty of ways in.
Time a speech. Plan a language practice session.
Make an idea part of your day.
