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  • BBC Learning English – Thai now live on website, FB, YouTube & Instagram channels

    MUMBAI: BBC Learning English has launched special content for Thai-speaking learners. BBC Learning English – Thai is now live on the BBC Learning English website as well as Facebook and Instagram channels. BBC Thai features selected material on its Facebook page and other social-media channels.

    BBC World Service delivers news content around the world in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital, reaching a weekly audience of 269 million. BBC Learning English, a part of the BBC World Service, is a leader in using international broadcasting to teach English. Users connect with BBC Learning English via the website bbclearningenglish.com, its partner sites, as well as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

    BBC Learning English – Thai includes weekly video and audio clips for learners at beginner and intermediate levels. Beginners can try Essential English Conversation, while English on the Street and English in the News – featuring the most popular stories from the BBC Thai website – are aimed at those at intermediate level.

    BBC Learning English – Thai is delivered via the BBC Learning English website and social-media channels. Selected content features on BBC Thai Facebook page, Instagram and YouTube channels.

    BBC Learning English editor Paul Scott says: “We are looking forward to engaging and interacting with Thai-speaking learners of English. Our new free series will help them on their language-learning journeys as the starting point for conversations and for sharing views, ideas and culture.”

  • BBC inks partnership with Hull City of Culture 2017

    BBC inks partnership with Hull City of Culture 2017

    MUMBAI: The BBC has inked a new partnership with Hull City of Culture 2017. It will mean the BBC will provide significant regional, national and international coverage of Hull’s year as the UK’s City of Culture.

     

    The BBC will also commission a substantial raft of new content to showcase the arts and produce a major programme of activity in 2017.

     

    BBC director general Tony Hall said the BBC would play a crucial role promoting UK City of Culture in 2017.

     

    Hall said, “I’m proud to announce our partnership today. The BBC is going to be unashamedly ‘Hull-centric’ in 2017. We are really looking forward to working with the city to create something very special for audiences across the UK and around the world. I recently set out our case for an open, enabling BBC that supports creativity in all kinds of ways. I want the BBC to be at the heart of Hull’s big year because I recognise that by working closely together as equal partners we can achieve so much more.”

     

    The BBC’s activities for 2017 will include:

     

    1) A world-class celebration of poetry, performance and the spoken word – shaped and made in Hull and inspired by the city’s rich poetry heritage, which includes the likes of Andrew Marvell and Philip Larkin.

    2) BBC Learning will be working with schools and organisations across Hull to deliver targeted projects to inspire and create educational opportunities for the city’s young people.

    3) BBC Writers Room will be looking for writers – new and established – to develop stories inspired by Hull.

    4) Some of the BBC’s biggest events will go to Hull during 2017 and the BBC will create new ones.

     

    Further details will be released in the coming year.

     

    The BBC has already begun building its presence in Hull. On 31 October and 1 November, CBBC Live and Digital will take place in Hull city centre. It will be a weekend of live broadcasts and digital activities aimed children and their families. The event is part of BBC Make it Digital – the BBC’s initiative to inspire a new generation to get creative with coding, programming and digital technology.

     

    Earlier this year, the BBC’s Make It Digital roadshow attracted 17,000 visitors at the Hull Freedom Festival. BBC Radio 4 is currently broadcasting Hull comedian Lucy Beaumont’s first radio project, To Hull And Back, which also stars Maureen Lipman. Earlier this month, BBC Four broadcast a documentary about Philip Larkin, which formed part of the BBC’s poetry season.

     

    The BBC’s Hull-based regional platforms, including BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Look North, are already providing comprehensive coverage of plans for Hull 2017.

     

    Hull City of Culture CEO Martin Green said, “It’s wonderful to have the BBC, the world’s greatest cultural organisation, on board for Hull 2017. Our partnership with the BBC will allow us to engage the entire country and encourage people across Britain to look again at Hull and think again about what culture really is.”

  • BBC Learning English launches on Nokia’s Mobiledu.cn in China

    MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that its service BBC Learning English has launched on Mobiledu.cn, Nokia’s new mobile English Language Teaching (ELT) platform in China.

    Hundreds of millions of English-learners in China will now be able to use their mobile phones to take authentic and modern English learning courses provided by the BBC, including Take Away English, Real English and Quizzes.

    Mobiledu.cn is a new learning application software specifically developed by Nokia for mobile devices. Nokia director of Mobiledu.cn, Peter Zhang, said: “As a new interactive learning tool, Mobiledu.cn makes learning possible anywhere and any time, and that is why it has been very popular in the market.

    “As more users install Mobiledu.cn on their Nokia phones, more people can access and enjoy the convenience and value brought by Mobiledu.cn.”

    BBC World Service business development manager for China and North Asia, Raymond Li said, “China is a very special market. It has the largest number of English learners and is the world’s largest mobile market with more than 460 million users of mobile phones. We have been keen to establish ourselves in China, and this partnership with Nokia and its mobile learning platform, Mobiledu.cn, is a real milestone in bringing our world-class content to learners of English.”

    Nokia sales and marketing manager of Mobieldu.cn, Angela Long says, “Mobiledu.cn provides content which meets the various demands of users on learning, work, entertainment and life in general. The BBC is one of the best-known and authoritative brands in the industry, and, by bringing its Learning
    English content into our service, we are hoping to provide our users with a better learning experience – in addition to the BBC brand image which is strong among English-learners in China.”

    BBC Learning English head Andrew Thompson says, “BBC ELT has been popular in China for a long time and already has a huge number of fans right across the traditional media platforms of radio and online. This launch on mobile devices offers our audience a convenient new way of learning English interactively anywhere and any time and also expands the BBC’s English Learning offer in China.”