Essential Language Phrases from the BBC

With most of the English and Welsh schools now also broken up for the summer holidays. I expect there will be a lot of people wanting to escape the awful weather that we have been having in the UK for my sunny climates.

If you are going abroad this summer this nice little resource from the BBC might help you brush up on language skills.

It’s called ‘BBC languages Quick Fix’ and contains essential phrases in 36 different modern foreign languages.

If you take the French section for example the website gives you:

• 10 essential basic phrases in French
• 9 essential accommodation phrases in French
• 13 essential food and drink phrases in French
• 11 essential shopping phrases in French
• 12 essential getting around phrases in French
• 15 essential ski phrases in French
• 13 essential beach phrases in French

The site gives you the option to print out the phrases, listen to the MP3 files, download the MP3 files to your computer and download the MP3 files to your mobile phone.

As well as being useful for travelers going on holiday this summer. I can also see this resource being useful to modern language departments in schools and for schools celebrating language weeks.

Overall this seems to be a really useful resource from the BBC with lots of education potential.

Comments

[Dave Parker]

Thanks for the link Ollie
The phrases are printed out for Tom and his pal who leave on Monday backpacking round Europe for three weeks!!
Regards
Dave
PS Awaiting the next instalment of the cycle trip