Language learners have never had so many opportunities to practise the target language: podcasts, online news sites, social networking sites, specialised LL sites, YouTube, Twitter, DVDs, internet radio and TV, blogs, e-books, etc., etc. Up until now, you'd probably have used a variety of different devices (PCs, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods, etc.) to do all these different things, but the advent of the iPad means that you'll be able to do them just as well, if not better, on a single device. That's why Apple's new gadget looks like a language learner's dream.

