The SIETAR Berlin group invited me to talk about the Absolutely Intercultural podcast on Nov 18th and the recording is below. The conversation proper doesn’t start until about four minutes in and lasts about 15 minutes. The next speaker was Dr Abdulhamied Almoraithy about using multimedia in the Arab World for intercultural learning which starts at [...]
I was very curious when I received the European Podcast Award package because it was incredibly large and incredibly heavy. Inside was a really beautiful trophy made out of glass. So that was why it was so heavy. Also in the box was a very small and light Olympus voice recorder which was my prize [...]
Sep 162010
Mike Marzio has been on my list of potential interviewees for a long time because of his innovative Real English video materials. But the reason that I finally got round to interviewing him for the Absolutely Intercultural podcast is that he has a personal project for which he needs to raise €30,000 to cover the [...]
Aug 232010
Learn a bit of structured language and go out immediately into the real world to practice it, where real world really does mean real world and involves the students interacting with the public in libraries, cafes and parks. That’s the idea behind Languages Out There and in March I explored the concept with its founder [...]
When I arranged to speak with Adrian Pilbeam about the intercultural training courses he offers I was surprised to find out that you could get EU support with your expenses to attend. Not that I am unfamiliar with the Grundtvig scheme which pays for adult educators to attend 5 day courses in EU countries since [...]
Jun 302010
When we first started the Absolutely Intercultural podcast back in 2006 and wrote on the podcast website that we were the first podcast to deal with intercultural matters I thought it wouldn’t be long before we had many competitors. But now four years later something has happened to make me look again to see what [...]