About Us

Designed by language-teaching experts, our courses make the best use of today's technology. We aim to offer something for everyone, with book and audio, audio-only and multimedia courses and resources. Many of our courses, such as Talk, The French Experience, Sueños World Spanish, Deutsch Plus and Italianissimo, have complementary, critically acclaimed programmes available to record from the BBC TWO Learning Zone. There are also free online activities at www.bbc.co.uk/languages that complement many of the products in our range.

All our courses are available to buy through this website, or from all good booksellers.

We are constantly adding to our range, so keep up to date with developments by checking the recent news on the Home page or the Teachers’ Home page. Teachers can also keep up to date by joining the Teachers’ Club.  If you are a language learner and have any thoughts or comments, please let us know by contacting us at: BBCActive.languages.admin@pearson.com.

The BBC Languages Email Club, as it was then known, was set up in 2001 by Tony Hammond. Its aim, as stated in the first ever monthly newsletter to Club members, was ‘not only to keep you fully informed about BBC language programmes, support materials and forthcoming developments – but also to provide you with a regular opportunity to tell us what you think, what’s on your mind and what you think we should be doing if we are not already doing it’.

Since its inception, the Email Club has continued to grow and now has around 7,500 members, all of them language teachers, tutors, advisers and specialists from around the UK and all over the world. After Tony retired in 2006, his successor, Susanna Shapland, kept the Club running in the spirit in which it was founded, and did this until her departure in 2010. The newsletter continued to be absolutely free, and provided an engaging monthly round-up of news, information and resources from the languages world. You can read more about becoming a member of the Club on the dedicated BBC Active Language Teachers’ Club page. Why not join today, and become part of a fun, friendly community where you can have your say?
 

BBC Active,  formerly known as BBC Worldwide Learning (including BBC Children’s Learning, and BBC Languages), is a joint venture between Pearson Education, the world's leading educational publisher, and BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC. BBC Active trade as Educational Publishers LLP (Registered Number OC314882), whose registered office is at Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE.