The following titles are reviewed in issue 38 of Rusistika, autumn 2013. Susie Beattie, Genevieve Gerrard and Persephone Lock (editors), Collins Russian Dictionary and Grammar. Reviewed by Andrew Jameson. Serge Sharoff, Elena Umanskaya and James Wilson, A Frequency...
Svetlana MacGillivray, Reviews Editor I am delighted to be taking over the reviews editorship of Rusistika. Andrew Jameson, the previous reviews editor, will be a hard act to follow, having carried out the task for many years with great thoroughness: ALL is extremely...
After the BBC indicated to ALL in March that online languages for adults was to be abandoned, there appears to have been a significant change of thinking. A new BBC Trust Service Review of Online and Red Button (via merged service licence) proposes that...
About World Teachers’ Day World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October, and is a UNESCO initiative, a day devoted to appreciating, assessing, and improving the educators of the world. The real point is to provide a time to look at and address issues...
Speaking to the Future in 1000 words Speak to the Future is launching a new national challenge for languages this autumn, with the message that we should aspire for everyone to have at least 1000 words in another language. And no, this is not about vocabulary...
