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Thinking Google Translate means you (or your child) won’t need a language learning experience? To be sure, Google Translate has helped us in a lot of ways like enabling language access to local government info, radically improving world travel, and even disseminating COVID-19 information. And every year, the beginning of the school year triggers a […]

They changed the Spanish alphabet… As we recently blogged, in 2010 the Real Academia Española made some rather significant changes to the official Spanish alphabet.  Let’s review what those were: The letters ch and ll were removed; they are now considered “digraphs.” The new name of “y” is ye. The only name for “B” is be. The only name for “V” […]

How can teachers address proficiency targets while engaging a range of students in traditionally-labeled language levels?  This challenge was a reoccurring theme discussed in last week’s #langchat on how traditional world language levels align with proficiency levels.  However, #langchat participants shared their strategies for integrating both concepts in the classroom. – Follow the blog on Bloglovin – […]