Canada

February is looking a whole lot better

Claudine Weber-Hof tells you what you can do to make February a great month.

Our funniest interview

For its September issue, Spotlight did a very funny interview with a Klingon. Mike Pilewski describes the highlights.

Travel: Canada by rail

Writer Claudia Hellmann explored Canada’s West from a luxury passenger train. Listen to the beginning of the story now, and see if you can answer two questions.

Vancouver is in which Canadian province?

Alberta, British Columbia or Ontario?

Spotlight 8/2011

LISTENING TEST
How good are your skills?

WESTERN CANADA
A rail journey in the mountains

TRAVELOGS: Roman Britain

Spotlight Audio 7/2011

This month on Spotlight Audio: What's new in the classroom. Exploring Namibia. Outdoor cooking and outdoor drinking. Expressions with "half". Language laws in Quebec. Airport language. And much more.

Blue for boys and pink for girls? Not for some parents.

A Canadian couple do not want anyone to know whether their youngest child, named Storm, is a boy or a girl. "I am saying to the world, 'Please, can you just let Storm discover for him/herself what (s)he wants to be?'" says the child's mother, Kathy Witterick.