Polish up your Polish!

Actually for most of us, when it comes to learning Polish, it may not be so much a question of ‘polishing up’ – more a case of starting from scratch. You may find it surprising, but there are real advantages to learning this difficult but rewarding language. For...

Understanding French menus

There’s a rather good French restaurant in London called Brasserie Zédel – if you’ve never been it’s worth popping in for a quick look at the restaurant which is in the basement. Brasserie Zédel was once part of the Regent Palace Hotel, built by T. Lyons & Co....

Japanese teacher, Gillian Hill

How did you start to learn Japanese? I’m a native English speaker but lived in Japan for a few years in my twenties. I was sent to a small village in the mountains where no one had ever even seen a foreign person in the flesh and certainly didn’t speak any English. I...