21 December 2021
What is the Dongzhi Festival?
The Dongzhi Festival is celebrated in China on the shortest day of every year – also known as Winter Solstice. Dongzhi translates to “arrival...
16 December 2021
Why learn Arabic?
Saturday 18th December 2021 marks World Arabic Language Day – an official commemoration of the day that the General Assembly of the United Nations...
13 December 2021
Chinese New Year’s Eve Traditions
Chinese New Year is famous worldwide, but Chinese New Year’s Eve, or Lunar New Year’s Eve (大年夜) is just as important, if not more,...
7 December 2021
Chinese New Year: Key Symbols
Also known as Chunjie (春节) or the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year is a major international event, celebrated by more than 1.5 billion people...
3 December 2021
Introducing Arabic: Dragons Teaching’s newest language
Dragons Teaching are delighted to be introducing Arabic to our language offering for the new year. For the past 15 years, our mission has...
24 November 2021
The Romance Languages
You may sometimes hear of the ‘Romance Languages’. Rather than being connected to love and affection, this collection of languages actually refers to their...
22 November 2021
How long does it take to learn a language?
Many people dream of being able to converse fluently in at least one other language. For plenty of cultures, being native in a language...
18 November 2021
What are the differences between European and Latin American Spanish?
Spanish is spoken as a native language by more than 450 million people globally, which makes it second only to Mandarin as the most...
11 November 2021
What is blended learning, and how effective is it?
Blended learning is a strategy that developed in the digital era to quite simply ‘blend’ both traditional and digital teaching methods. Technology is used...
10 November 2021
Singles’ Day – what’s it all about?
Seen as the antithesis of Valentine’s Day (for which the Chinese also have their own celebration with the Qixi Festival), Singles’ Day is a...