by laacademia-author | Jul 10, 2015 | Language school, Spanish classes
It’s not too late to improve your Spanish conversation skills ahead of the holidays! la Academia is continuing our very successful Saturday Spanish conversation class, fortnightly on the first and third Saturdays of each month. The class is also open to anyone...
by laacademia-author | Jul 6, 2015 | A level MFL, English Language Tuition, GCSE MFL
It’s that time of year again – Year 10’s and AS level students are getting to see the true picture of where they are in their studies, and it’s not always pretty! Parents across the land are tearing their hair out and worrying that their children are not going to...
by laacademia-author | Jul 3, 2015 | A level MFL, GCSE MFL, Language classes, Languages
The advice for students wanting to go to a Russell Group university who do not yet know what subject their degree will be in, is to keep their options open by choosing at least two “facilitating subjects” at A-level. These are the subjects which provide good...
by laacademia-author | Jun 24, 2015 | Languages, Uncategorized
La Academia recently came across a beautiful illustration of the relationship of Indo-European and Uralic languages, by Minna Sundberg. It really shows how European languages are related to each other and to languages such as Persian and Punjabi that share common...
by laacademia-author | Jun 12, 2015 | Language classes, Languages
Nearly all the research whether from Europe or further afield shows that language students are not very worried about being in a language class, but that their anxiety levels rise when they are asked to speak in the target language. The reasons for this tend to be:...
