You need to achieve the required level of English to qualify for a place on your chosen course or programme. Different courses or programmes need different levels of language skills. We refer to these ...

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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. The vast majority of our non degree language courses commence in ...

Learning a new language can be tricky, but how many words do you need to know before you can actually get by in a foreign tongue? That was the question posed to BBC Radio 4's More or Less ...

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What do we mean by “main language”? At the United Nations, “main language” generally refers to the language of an individual's higher education. For linguists outside the Organization ...

Korean, known in the language itself as Kugo, is the language of the Korean Peninsula in northeast Asia. In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) there are 20 million ...

Learning a new language has come a long way since books and CD-ROMs collections. Mobile apps are one of the default formats that learners expect to have available when deciding to study a language ...

There are probably more people in China who speak English as a second language than there are Americans who speak it as their first. (A fifth of Americans speak a language other than English in ...

Language is one of the most important skills we will ever learn. Everything we do at home or work requires us to communicate with our families, friends and colleagues. Without language it is ...

We found that across a sample of 51 diverse languages, consonants at the beginning of words are on average 13 ms longer than their non-initial counterparts. Considering that this finding is robust ...

Exam questions may ask you to comment on how writers use language to make an impression on the reader. simile A comparison using 'like' or 'as' to create a vivid image. 'As big as a whale', 'float ...