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 | Oct 14, 2012 | Business language courses, Chinese classes, Language classes
Found this very interesting post about China and learning Chinese by Martin Jacques for the BBC on Friday. So convinced is Jacques of the importance of learning Chinese that his son started Chinese lessons aged 5. Jacques puts forward an idea of China as a...
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...
