by laacademia-author | Oct 10, 2012 | Chinese classes, Language classes, Latest News
The Chinese people are just getting back to work after a week off to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was on September 30th. This is a Holiday, followed by another week off from October 1st to 7th to celebrate National Day, so there will have been a lot of...
by laacademia-author | Sep 28, 2012 | Business language courses, Chinese classes, French classes, German classes, Italian classes, Language classes, Spanish classes
An English pub landlord was given a 32-week suspended jail sentence last week, and was also ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work and pay £250 costs. He was found guilty of brandishing an air rifle behind the bar after customers got annoyed when he told them to...
by laacademia-author | Sep 26, 2012 | Language classes, Languages, MFL in primaries
The European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on 26th September, as an initiative of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Across Europe, the 800 million Europeans represented in the Council of Europe’s 47 member states are encouraged...
by laacademia-author | Sep 6, 2012 | Chinese classes, French classes, Italian classes, Language classes, Spanish classes
We’ve just published the list of classes for September, October and November 2012. We’ll be running courses in Spanish, French, Chinese and Italian, with Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced courses. Classes are held in Cheadle, Stockport, Greater...
by laacademia-author | Aug 17, 2012 | Chinese classes, French classes, German classes, Language classes, Language school, Spanish classes
At la Academia, we were disappointed to see that the number of entries for language A-levels fell again this year. Mostly this was due to a drop in entries for European languages traditionally studied in schools, such as French and German. Even Spanish fell slightly,...
by laacademia-author | Aug 13, 2012 | Business language courses, ESOL classes, Language classes, Uncategorized
Many of our language students at La Academia are undertaking language classes which are paid for by their company. Sometimes this is to equip the employee with a language they will need in the course of their job – classes in business French, German, Chinese and so on...