by laacademia-author | Oct 18, 2018 | Language classes, Language school
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. . . can you? This proverb is, for the most part, untrue. The adult brain was once believed to be a fixed structure that, once damaged, could not be repaired. But since the 1960s we have known that this is wrong. The brain is...
by laacademia-author | Aug 23, 2018 | Language classes, Language school, Spanish classes
Here are our Spanish classes for the new term starting soon: Spanish classes for children: (very limited spaces) Reception and Year 1 group will start on Thursday 27th September, 4 – 5pm. The cost for the whole term is £120. Years 2 and 3 group will start on...
by laacademia-author | Aug 21, 2018 | Chinese classes, Language classes, Language school
That’s right, Mark Zuckerberg – the 34 year old second only in wealth to the world’s richest man, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, learns Mandarin Chinese. Admittedly, he did have some very personal motivation initially – he’s married to Priscilla Chan the daughter of...
by laacademia-author | Mar 22, 2018 | Language school, Languages
How did you start to learn Japanese? I’m a native English speaker but lived in Japan for a few years in my twenties. I was sent to a small village in the mountains where no one had ever even seen a foreign person in the flesh and certainly didn’t speak any English. I...
by laacademia-author | Jan 31, 2018 | Language school
Recent research shows that positive thinking helps students solve maths problems. Researchers whose results were published in Psychological Science suggested “looking at students’ beliefs about a subject and their self-perceived abilities to provide another inroad to...
by laacademia-author | Jan 18, 2018 | Language classes, Language school
I’m Dagmara, but friends call me Daga. I come from Poland and I’ve been in UK for 4 years now. I teach Polish and English. I’ve got a Master’s Degree in language teaching and many years of experience in teaching students of all ages, from toddlers to adults. I...
