by laacademia-author | Feb 10, 2019 | Language classes, Languages
New Year seems a long time ago now. And whatever well meant resolution you started on January 1st, it’s probably long since been forgotten. But is it too late for a language learning resolution you can keep in 2019? In 2017 a YouGov poll in the UK revealed that the...
by laacademia-author | Nov 13, 2018 | Language school, Spanish classes
When teaching adults Spanish they often tell us they’re worried that learning a new language will be difficult and too academic. That they won’t be able to pronounce things or remember new words, or that the grammar will defeat them. For la Academia Spanish for adults...
by laacademia-author | Nov 12, 2018 | Language classes, Language school
Language learning through Skype with la Academia – it’s great for intensive language study! We have enthusiastically embraced language teaching with Skype at la Academia, because it works. There is research1 which indicates that web conferencing encourages...
by laacademia-author | Oct 31, 2018 | Beginner classes, Spanish classes
Why bother to learn Spanish when you can visit Spain with no need to speak Spanish? In fact, you could visit parts of Spain and speak nothing but English. But how much are you missing? When you can speak Spanish, in places where this is the mother tongue, you will be...
by laacademia-author | Oct 18, 2018 | Language classes, Language school
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. . . can you? This proverb is, for the most part, untrue. The adult brain was once believed to be a fixed structure that, once damaged, could not be repaired. But since the 1960s we have known that this is wrong. The brain is...
