I visited the London Language Show on Saturday. Here are some initial reactions, with more to follow once I get home. ( I fly home from London to Vancouver tomorrow)

First of all there was not the rush of eager young language learners that I had seen at similar shows in Prague and Berlin. This show was not as well attended.

Second of all, Chinese, Spanish and English dominated other languages to a greater extent than the two previous shows I visited.

My third observation was that the world of language learning still consists largely of grammar based instruction. There are various twists and variations on this theme, like computer systems, or a special emphasis on making languages fun or cool or otherwise worth doing, but the core method of instruction represented here was more towards traditional approaches than to an input based learning model.

There were a few interesting booths and interesting discussions and I will get to them later.