Routes NW partner wins Community Award

Date: 24th May 2011

Xue Theresa Teng, a close friend of the Routes NW project, was the winner of the University of Manchester's Community Award for staff. 

Theresa has served since 2004 as the Head Teacher of the Huaxia Chinese School which teaches Chinese language and culture to 300 children and adults from Greater Manchester. The school often perform at Routes events, such as the Breaking Barriers event and MMU's Children's Book Festival.

Theresa does great work in promoting the Chinese language and culture across the North West and we are proud of her recent achievement.

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New resources for language teachers

Date: 6th May 2011

Looking for a unique and exciting resource for the classroom?

Produced by Routes into Languages, the new txt spk badges offer a different approach to language teaching. Packs available to order in English, French, German, Spanish and Welsh.

For further information please see http://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/txtspk

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North West school pupils compete in the UK’s first National Foreign Language Spelling Bee

Date: 22nd March 2011

A brand new Routes into Languages initiative has tested the foreign language skills of thousands of North West school pupils, with 12 going through to represent the region at the National Final in Cambridge.

Over 8,500 school pupils from around 70 North West schools have been taking part in a new teaching initiative, which sees year 7 pupils competing to spell the highest number of words in a foreign language.

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Why study languages? Classroom calendar and website

Date: 15th December 2010

Why study languages? Classroom calendar and website

Order now for January!

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Multilingual Manchester

Date: 17th November 2010

The University of Manchester today launched their new Multilingual Manchester web archive.

Multilingual Manchester is based at the School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures at the University of Manchester. Their aims are:

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