11 October 2021
5 ways learning a language can improve your mental health
Sunday 10th October marked World Mental Health Day. The overall objective of this annual event is to raise awareness of mental health issues around...
28 September 2021
French Idioms
Every language has its own unique idioms – and there are certainly crossovers among many languages. This week, in the wake of the annual...
24 September 2021
What is El Llanito?
Great human migrations and the process of globalisation means that more and more people now live in a bilingual or multilingual reality. One of...
23 September 2021
The benefits of learning a language
As the European Day of Languages dawns upon us once more – an enriching annual event which reminds us about the importance of learning...
7 September 2021
What’s the difference between Chinese and Mandarin?
Scottish, Scouse, Geordie, West Country, RP: the same, but different. In the UK, most native citizens speak English but their dialect will vary dependent...
1 September 2021
September Resolutions
It has often puzzled me why we save New Year’s resolutions until January, because for the vast majority of us, the rhythms of the...
22 December 2020
Chinese Idiom Explainer No.2
Once upon a time there was a lazy farmer. He didn’t like toiling in the fields day after day and, while he did do...
26 November 2020
Chinese Idiom Explainer No.1
Learning the Chinese Idiom 叶公好 (yè gōng hào lóng) There once was a man named Ye Gong and boy did he love dragons! Dragons...
25 September 2020
Dragons Teaching raises £0.6 million to empower UK language learning
Dragons is excited to announce we have successfully secured £0.6 million in a development capital investment round for its new EdTech provision, supported by...
22 September 2020
Seize the educational opportunities post-pandemic
It is easy to get consumed by negativity in 2020. Not least by considering the continuing Covid-19 pandemic with the potential for reimposition of...