• Friday 1 December 2023 Top 4 MFL Speaking & Listening Activities for Sanako Connect Online Following a user survey of the most popular activities in the Sanako Connect online MFL system, we have come up with the top four activities designed to engage students, save the busy MFL teacher time and the school money.
• Wednesday 29 November 2023 Sanako MFL Career Talks Continue to Enthuse Students! David Binns, Director of Operations for Sanako UK & Ireland, has now delivered well in excess of 300 inspirational career talks to students stressing the importance of a second language skill in any chosen career and at initial interview stage. These talks are extremely well received by staff, students & parents with most schools asking for a return visit by him.
• Monday 27 November 2023 Spontaneous Speaking & Listening with the Sanako Group Talk Project Spontaneous Speaking & Listening with the Sanako Group Talk Project. Following on the success of the Sanako Hub school project in North Wales, Sanako UK is pleased to support the innovative Group Talk project in South Wales. Based upon the innovative and exciting MFL pedagogy of Greg Horton this method of getting students speaking and listening spontaneously has a proven track record.
• Saturday 21 October 2023 Sanako UK - Doing the right thing and supporting the local community The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:
• Tuesday 17 October 2023 Phonics and Pronunciation can be fun! I was in a Ysgol Clywedog school in Wrexham a couple of weeks ago and watched the end of a Y9 lesson. The pupils were using the Pronounce feature of Sanako Connect to practise their pronunciation and get immediate feedback from the software and the chance to practise it again and improve it. Their teacher, Claire, told me that it’s the only time when the bell goes at the end of the day that they don’t want to pack up and go home, as they’re having so much fun with pronunciation.
• Thursday 12 October 2023 Sanako UK Autumn 2023 MFL Newsletter Welcome to the latest edition of the Sanako UK Autumn 2023 MFL Newsletter. Inside you will find many engaging articles about how the very latest MFL technology from Finland is having a very positive impact on the UK's language lessons.
• Thursday 21 September 2023 Sanako UK Introduces Live Online Conference Interpreter Training Whether you are looking to expand or enhance your existing interpreter training suite by adding online elements, giving the opportunity to provide consecutive or simultaneous activities online in both synchronous and asynchronous modes, or simply want a software only interpreting suite installed in an existing computer room. Sanako UK is sure to have technology to meet your needs from traditional hardware to cloud based solutions.
• Wednesday 13 September 2023 Sharing MFL Resources & Teacher Skills via Hub Schools Global Futures is a Welsh Government-funded programme and commitment to expand the teaching of International Languages in schools in Wales. It’s vision, which reflects that of the new Curriculum for Wales (September 2022), is that Wales becomes a truly multilingual nation and for learners to experience the range of benefits from learning International Languages as they develop into ambitious, capable learners ready to be citizens of Wales and the world.
• Tuesday 12 September 2023 Supporting language students with educational challenges to succeed One of the most significant themes to emerge in education during and after the Covid pandemic has been to recognise the importance of equal access to teaching and learning. Although usually focused on ensuring universal broadband and device provision, it’s also highly relevant for maintaining support to language students with educational challenges.
• Tuesday 18 July 2023 What do the students think of Sanako UK Director's MFL in Careers Talks? Our UK Director, David Binns, has now completed well over 300 MFL career talks for students, but is the message getting across Read on to find out what the pupils from Lampton School, Hounslow think.
• Thursday 6 July 2023 Enhancing Classroom Collaboration with Live Group Navigation Chat Enhancing Classroom Collaboration with Sanako Connect! Here's a tutorial video on how to create collaborative tasks for live student group/pair discussion using Sanako Connect. You can for example include interactive elements like video, text, presentations, pdfs and even Google Maps for role-playing a lost tourist or any other app that allows embedding.
• Tuesday 20 June 2023 How investing in language education boosts national and regional economies In an earlier blog post, we explored how language learning was the ultimate 21st Century skill. We identified how language skills could increase opportunities for learners and support their economic and skill development.
• Tuesday 20 June 2023 CCQs and ICQs: how to ask great questions in your MFL classroom One of the characteristics of a great teacher is their ability to ask brilliant questions. This includes those questions that form part of their lesson content but also those which might, to an untrained ear, seem simple and straight-forward.
• Friday 16 June 2023 Create language lesson plans using AI tools like ChatGPT In recent years, technology has transformed language education in many ways. We at Sanako do predict that there will be even more radical changes in the very near future with artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT taking even a bigger role in how language teachers will teach and their students will learn languages.
• Thursday 8 June 2023 Using Sanako Connect Online for Interpreting & Translation Whether you are just staring on your interpreting journey or already experienced, Sanako Connect online gives you the ability to deliver translation, simultaneous & consecutive lessons in any location & on any device
• Thursday 1 June 2023 How to build your students' active listening skills? Some things just go together. Whether that’s Lennon & McCartney, Laurel & Hardy or Batman & Robin – one without the other just doesn’t work. It’s the same with building speaking and listening skills when learning new language
• Wednesday 17 May 2023 The number one weakness in teaching and how to address it Probably like many of you, I read lots of blogs about teaching and learning, both generic and MFL-specific. If you’ve not yet come across Tom Sherrington, of Walkthrus fame, then I highly recommend taking a look at it here:
• Saturday 6 May 2023 Sanako UK MFL Career Talks Continue To Have A Positive Impact With well in excess of 300 talks delivered to schools all over the country, these inspiring talks, from an unorthodox but effective position, continue to have a very positive impact on the number of students selecting a language at options time.
• Wednesday 5 April 2023 Sanako AI Pronunciation Testing for MFL - Primary, GCSE & A Level Ever wanted students to be able to perfect their pronunciation Add automatic assessment and instant feedback Watch this video to see it being used by GCSE & A Level students to learn more
• Tuesday 4 April 2023 Primary Languages Transition Project Sanako UK is involved in an innovative primary languages project using the extremely versatile Sanako Connect online system!
• Friday 31 March 2023 GCSE & WJEC Content FREE for all Sanako Connect UK Users Sanako UK is constantly supporting its customer base, whether that be the free of charge pronunciation testing system, oral assessment technology or, as in this case, free to download and use GCSE & WJEC content
• Monday 27 March 2023 Language World 2023 - Competition Winner Announced The winner of the competition, with 112 entries in total, is Ivana Stanley from Melbourn Village College. She will receive a free 12 month subscription to Sanako Connect, 30cc licences including all the advanced MFL facilities and French, Spanish & German content
• Monday 27 March 2023 Training students to speak spontaneously, read aloud & transcribe. Webinar Hosted by Wendy Adeniji Training students to speak spontaneously, read aloud and transcribe. Webinar recording and presentation
• Thursday 23 March 2023 Our Latest MFL webinar really strikes a chord with linguists! Sanako UK recently hosted a free to attend very successful webinar hosted by the fantastic Wendy Adeniji. Wendy spoke about the new GCSE examination and practical solutions to save the everyday MFL teacher both time and money.
• Thursday 23 March 2023 Sanako UK Success at Language World 2023 Sanako UK was really pleased to sponsor the prestigious Language World 2023 in Sheffield. Delegates got to use the latest modern languages technology from Finland and interact with real world teachers. Sanako Connect, Pronunciation Tool & readymade GCSE content was very well received by all
• Monday 6 March 2023 Sanako UK launches new Connect resources in Welsh! One of the fantastic things about Sanako Connect is how easy it is to create bespoke resources in (almost) any language. This means that minority languages, for which it’s often not cost-effective for publisher to create resources, can have very professional-looking resources....
• Monday 27 February 2023 Spontaneous Speaking in the new MFL Curriculum Recently I went to a really interesting session led by Rachel Hawkes at ALL Yorkshire hosted by the amazing Eva Lamb at King Edward VII School in Sheffield. I wanted to share some key takeaways and some thoughts and ideas that sprung from conversations I had over coffee with MFL colleagues and my own thinking afterwards.
• Wednesday 22 February 2023 How do we make time to assess the skill of speaking? Whenever I run training for MFL teachers on how to develop students’ speaking skills, one of their biggest concerns is how to assess the skill of speaking, which is, and will continue to be with the new 2024 GCSE, worth 25% of the final marks.
• Tuesday 14 February 2023 Sanako, constantly evolving. Constantly supporting our customers The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:
• Monday 13 February 2023 Modern foreign language teaching in Finland's world-leading education system. Learn from the best! Our previous blog posts have demonstrated how Sanako has built our language teaching technology business on globally-renowned Finnish learning models. Finland’s approach to language teaching is similarly innovative and offers some invaluable insights for language teachers globally.

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