fastner Communications 

You are learning English as a foreign language and struggling to get to the next level? January is the ideal time to review your progress. Have you reached your learning goals? Are you still focussed and motivated? If not, try to find out why you haven’t moved ahead this semester? Maybe your goals were not clear enough, were unachievable or you just didn’t put in the effort? If that’s the case, it is time to become an autonomous English language learner, taking responsibility

In a Wall Street Journal article from January 2016, Alec Ross argued that the language barrier is about to fall. According to Ross, a technology expert, we can expect that in ten years from now, earpieces will provide us with translations in real-time. Language trainers, traditional dictionary publishers and translators can all say goodbye to their careers or embrace the technological advances and re-train. In response to Ross, David Arbesú, Assistant Professor of Spanish at