by laacademia-author | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
At la Academia we believe strongly in the importance of accurate, reliable translation. So we are saddened to see that the excellent Translation Studies Unit (TSU) at Imperial College is under threat of closure or transfer to another institution. The TSU specialises...
by laacademia-author | Jan 29, 2013 | Language classes, Language school, Languages, Spanish classes
A lot of la Academia’s students begin their studies at our Manchester language school with Spanish, and there are many reasons why they and others choose to learn Spanish. Holidays! With 21 countries where Spanish is the official language, many of them tourism...
by laacademia-author | Jan 25, 2013 | Language classes, Languages
It is commonly believed that children are able to pick up languages much more easily than adults – sometimes this even prevents adults from trying to learn a foreign language when they are older, as they believe they have missed the window of opportunity. However,...
by laacademia-author | Jan 1, 2013 | Latest News
Happy New Year to all our language students! The age range of our classes is very wide – from 4 up to… we’d better not say, so some of our students in school language classes may not have been allowed to stay up to see in the New Year, whereas others...
by laacademia-author | Dec 12, 2012 | EFL classes, English Language Classes, English Language Tuition, ESOL classes, Interpreting
The census data released this week shows some interesting statistics on language – for example, nearly 3m households in England and Wales have no adults who speak English as their native language. This presents challenges to the education, legal, health and community...
