Jo McLeay

List of interactive websites for use in the French classroom. - Jo McLeay

Information on how German language knowledge can help in your career. The site provides advice on study opportunities, work experience and the labour market. - Jo McLeay

Dyslang (Dyslexia and Additional Academic Language Learning) is a European-funded project which aims to develop a course for teachers and parents to support the multilingual dyslexic individual in learning an additional curriculum language. - Jo McLeay

Graham Webb and colleagues from Leeds Metropolitan University have produced a short video about languages for employability. It was filmed at their recent Language and employability conference which was attended by employers, students and academics. - Jo McLeay

As is becomes increasingly important for firms to compete on a global scale, employers are placing more and more value on those who can offer an additional language. - Jo McLeay

This section has been written for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of modern languages at the University of Kent. It attempts to give a brief answer to the question: "What can I do with my degree?" and an overview of the many and varied ways in which you can use your language skills in a career. This information is also likely to be of interest to students of other subjects whose degree includes a language (such as European Studies or English and French Law) and to students who have a good knowledge of another language through their personal background even if they have never studied languages formally. - Jo McLeay

Many employers actively recruit applicants with language skills which are seen as particularly important in sectors such as manufacturing, banking, finance and insurance due to the globalisation of organisations. - Jo McLeay

Apart from the demand for language teachers and translators, people with languages are needed to work in almost any job where contact with people from other countries might be necessary - Jo McLeay

Italian is a Romance language, which means that Italian, just like Spanish, French, and Portuguese, is a child of Latin. - Jo McLeay

According to Wikipedia, there are approximately 60 million native Italian-speaking people in Italy, and perhaps another 10 million descendants around the world, meaning as many as 70 million native speakers of Italian. And then there are an estimated 125 million people who speak Italian as a foreign language. - Jo McLeay