Dear Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps national agencies,

Dive into 2024 with our January edition of the Online Language Support Newsletter, filled with the latest insights, updates and resources. This month we’re immersing mobility participants in the music of language – exploring the colour, texture, and rhythm of sounds through engaging listening and speaking exercises. Please help us to ensure that mobility participants hear all about it – and let them know how to add audio comments in the forums – see TIPS for the details.

To help carve those new neural language pathways, OLS community managers are dishing up a range of activities for students to learn in new contexts, from cooking and listening to music to keeping a notebook, which will enrich their experience in another country. See the Community managers and forums section below for details, and be sure to tell your mobility participants.

As we step into the rhythm of the new year, a parade of events and festivals during the rest of the year will keep us active. To help get students prepared, there’s a new B1 course – see New features and content below.

The Erasmus Student Network has published the first edition of Erasmus: A Complete Guide e-book! Two chapters will interest mobility participants looking for language-related advice: Erasmus: booster of your foreign language skills, page 54; and How to learn a foreign language, page 60.

We end this note with a big thanks to you for helping us spread the word about OLS to mobility participants last year and we hope you can continue to do so in the new year!

Regards,

The OLS team