Introduction to Linguistics

Here is a lovely interview with David Crystal that took place at the Harrogate IATEFL Conference a few days ago. Crystal discusses ‘Wor...

It may seem odd to mother tongue English speakers, but many nouns in modern languages have genders. English used to have both genders and...

If you do not know a language, although the words may not mean anything, it is possible to pick up ‘sounds’ or ‘accents’. Cath...

On Friday, I attended at Modern Language Film Day at Birmingham University. We had one talk together and then split off into our langua...