by laacademia-author | Jan 26, 2016 | A level MFL, GCSE MFL, German classes, Language classes
La Academia has a really good group of German language teachers! If you are looking for German evening classes, individual lessons or group in your workplace, we have a choice of teachers to suit you. In addition, language teaching in schools seems to be in parlous...
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 | Nov 27, 2015 | Language classes, Language school, Languages
Learning Greek for culture and history Learning Greek is a great way to find out about Greek culture. With 34 centuries of written records, plays, poetry and scientific discovery this is a huge legacy for all of modern civilization. As well as its own history,...
by laacademia-author | Nov 20, 2015 | Language classes, Language school, Languages
In previous blogs la Academia has discussed whether British people should learn a language (yes! Read our previous posts to see why!), but today we are wondering how many languages we should learn – how many is enough? English and Scots people have an odd relationship...
by laacademia-author | Oct 15, 2015 | Language classes, Language school
One of the commonest reasons given for not learning foreign languages is there is no need, as “Everybody speaks English”. Actually, this is far from the case, as even in Europe, the level of English speaking varies widely. Even including the countries which do have...
by laacademia-author | Oct 12, 2015 | Beginner classes, Language classes, Languages, Latest News
Swedish is not a language that is taught in UK schools and you may not ever have thought of learning Swedish. But with the increasing popularity of “Nordic Noir” Sweden is getting more on our radar – how about learning some of the language to get to know Sweden...
