by laacademia-author | Jan 6, 2016 | Languages, Latest News
Recent research in Taiwan has shown that people process language in the same way, even when their native languages are very different. Studying speakers of 4 very different languages – English, Spanish, Hebrew and Chinese – the team showed that their brains show...
by laacademia-author | Dec 30, 2015 | English for footballers, Language school, Languages
Football managers – should they speak more languages? The debate as to whether football managers should speak more languages rumbles on. This week a caller to Radio5Live suggested that modern managers need to speak more languages – that monoglots such as Sir Alex...
by laacademia-author | Dec 24, 2015 | Language classes, Languages, Latest News
Would it be cool or scary to be taught by a robot? A 3m euro EU programme starting in January will use humanoid robots to teach languages to 4-year-olds. Some will learn English as a second language, while immigrant children in Germany who speak Turkish as their first...
by laacademia-author | Dec 18, 2015 | Greek classes, Language school
La Academia loves language! All the languages that our teachers offer have their own idiosyncracies and charm, Greek possibly more so than any other. It’s always fun to try phrases in another language, though often it’s an equivalent rather than a direct translation....
by laacademia-author | Dec 9, 2015 | Latest News, Spanish classes
Football is a very international business these days. La Academia sees the value that managers and staff at Premier League clubs get from learning each others’ language, as we are teaching at several clubs. Recently former Manchester United star Gary Neville was...
