learn english through cooking

Talking food is always a good way into language:

Jay Doubleyou: favourite christmas food

Jay Doubleyou: lesson stream: great lessons using video clips

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There's a free app which will talk to you as you cook!

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As it says: 

Learn-by-doing! Associate new words with smells and tastes, and then best of all you get to enjoy eating the delicious meal you’ve cooked.

Linguacuisine – Combining technology, languages, culture and cuisine

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Here's a great review from Liz Granirer, writing in the E L Gazette:

We all know that learning a new skill, whether it’s cooking or a foreign language, is easier if it’s put in context, so the Linguacuisine app is on to a delicious winner.

Choose from 13 languages to cook in, including English, Greek and Japanese; pick a recipe, then follow along, associating the actions, ingredients and tastes to the new words you’re learning. Plus, if you think it’s a good idea, you can record and upload your own recipes to share with other users.

The app was developed by a collaboration between Newcastle University, Action Foundation (UK), Hellenic Open University (Greece), Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy) and the Workers’ Educational Association (UK) and funded by an Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnership grant. It’s been chosen by HundrED as ‘one of the world’s most inspiring innovations in bilingual education’.

Linguacuisine has been such a success – with no fewer than six studies finding it’s an effective language learning tool – that Newcastle University is now looking for more projects that teach languages within contexts that it can turn into an app.

Cook up a language lesson | E L Gazette

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