Free AI Chatbot – see below for details!

Last year, I took it upon myself to create an AI chatbot for people to practise their spoken English. If you have read the post previous to this one, you’ll see that I am more than happy that AI has entered the arena of tools for language learners but I am fairly confident that inContinue reading “Free AI Chatbot – see below for details!”

Learning tools

When, quite a few years ago, I started my first language teaching course, the tools available to us were limited compared to what is available to the language learner and teacher nowadays. I had to prepare my own OHP slides – something so old that most of you reading this won’t even know what I’mContinue reading “Learning tools”

The Babel fish

“The Babel Fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.” So begins the description of this strange creature in the classic 1979 book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ Douglas Adams, the author of the book, described a fantastic creature that you place in your ear and which allowsContinue reading “The Babel fish”