Have Your Say 2026

Following the success of the 2025 competition with over 400 students participating, here the dates and venues for the 2026 Have Your Say Languages competition organised by the Association for Language Learning Essex and East Anglian Branch. Three preliminary rounds:...

University cuts in Languages

Reports from the East Midlands of plans at Universities to cut their Languages degree courses have been widely reported: Leicester (BBC report): University could close courses and reduce staff Nottingham: (Guardian report): University of Nottingham considers axing...

Short Film Competition 2026 Launch

Short Film Competition 2026 Launch: Monday 23 February 2026 Submission deadline: Wednesday 20 May 2026 Final: w/c 29 June 2026 The ALL West of England Short Film Competition invites Year 8 and 9 students from schools across the UK to create short films of 3–5 minutes...

The ENACT Web App Prizes 2025

The ENACT Web App Prizes will be awarded to the people who upload the best cultural activities for language learning using the ENACT ‘CREATE’ author software during the period 1 July to 1 December 2025. We aim to increase the number of languages and cultures on the...

Multilingual Verses

We all remember and love the verses we learnt as children from families and friends, wherever we are from. Share with us your children’s multilingual texts / verses / ‘nursery rhymes’ In September 2025 we launch the FREE Twinkl / ALL resources around ‘nursery rhymes’...