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...
by laacademia-author | Jan 3, 2018 | Language classes, Language school, Spanish classes
Welcome back to la Academia in 2018 – this is the year to make your language learning resolutions a reality! All our language lessons and classes are running as usual. Whether you’re learning for pleasure, travel, work or just for the challenge,...
by laacademia-author | Oct 11, 2017 | French classes, Language school, Spanish classes
Recently at la Academia we have recruited some great new teachers! We have new Spanish teachers, and also French, Portuguese and Japanese teachers, so if you’d like the challenge of learning a new language, we can help! Learning a language is fun as well as being...
by laacademia-author | Oct 1, 2017 | Language classes, Language school, Spanish classes
Many thanks to Neil, a student of our language school in Cheadle, South Manchester, who recently wrote us a great recommendation. Needing to improve my Spanish to prepare for some time living in Peru, I approached La Academia. I knew some basic Spanish from computer...