Voices
For UN Chinese Language Day, we asked British Council colleagues who have studied Mandarin to tell us about their most memorable mistake with tone while living and working in China.
How do you become a martial arts movie star if you aren't Chinese? We asked UK-born actor, fight director and filmmaker Ted Duran, a member of our Generation UK: China Network.
We asked Northern Ireland's 16-year-olds about their ambitions to go abroad for study, travel and work. Dr Dirk Schubotz, who directed the research, explains their answers.
What's it really like to be a smart, ambitious young woman in China? Lara Izzard-Hobbs, an intern at a Chinese law firm as part of a British Council programme, answers.
Bobby Sebolao, who is completing a five-month teaching placement in India through the British Council, shares what has struck him most about the people he has met there.
The final post in our weekly series on the ten most important languages for the UK’s future is about Mandarin Chinese.
We turn to Russian in the eighth post of our series on the ten languages essential for the UK's future.
In the latest instalment of our series on the ten most important languages for the UK’s future, as identified in our Languages for the Future report, we turn to French.
German has a reputation for long words and difficult grammar. But far from being prosaic, it’s actually a language for writers, thinkers and hipsters, writes Martin Steinmetz.
In the recent Languages for the Future report, Spanish was highlighted as the most important language for people in the UK to learn.