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...
by laacademia-author | Oct 3, 2018 | Language classes, Languages, languages for children
Alan Watts the British philosopher, writer and speaker, said that ‘We seldom realise . . . that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our...
by laacademia-author | Sep 27, 2018 | Languages, languages for children
How do children learn languages? What all children have in common is curiosity and an ability to learn. Research tells us that babies begin to understand language about twice as fast as they actually speak it. According to Dr Patricia Kuhl, what’s going on in a baby’s...
