by laacademia-author | Nov 13, 2018 | Language school, Spanish classes
When teaching adults Spanish they often tell us they’re worried that learning a new language will be difficult and too academic. That they won’t be able to pronounce things or remember new words, or that the grammar will defeat them. For la Academia Spanish for adults...
by laacademia-author | Nov 12, 2018 | Language classes, Language school
Language learning through Skype with la Academia – it’s great for intensive language study! We have enthusiastically embraced language teaching with Skype at la Academia, because it works. There is research1 which indicates that web conferencing encourages...
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...
