Liverpool Daily Post - Tag - language

Damaging language skills

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

THE growing lack of foreign language skills among UK youngsters will damage the economy unless immediate action is taken, the British Academy warned today.

It really is time to clean up our act

Liverpool Daily Post — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

IT ALL started off as one of those social clean-sweeps, pushing out the empty and meaningless courtesies of yesteryear which got in the way of the actual truths of life. What was (and still largely is) known as bad language, became regarded by the modernisers from the 1960s onwards as merely honestly expressing what speakers felt – so why shirk away from it?

It should be as plain as the ventilation facility on your visage, old chap

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

AS A bit of a Jane Austen-wallah, I am probably rather over-tuned to the nuance of speech, but realise I do have to force myself to make concessions to the 19th, 20th and now, heaven forbid, the 21st century.

English test faces overseas footballers

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT

MERSEYSIDE’S football clubs will find it harder to sign up star players from outside Europe after the government said they must first pass a language test.