by laacademia-author | Nov 27, 2015 | Language classes, Language school, Languages
Learning Greek for culture and history Learning Greek is a great way to find out about Greek culture. With 34 centuries of written records, plays, poetry and scientific discovery this is a huge legacy for all of modern civilization. As well as its own history,...
by laacademia-author | Nov 20, 2015 | Language classes, Language school, Languages
In previous blogs la Academia has discussed whether British people should learn a language (yes! Read our previous posts to see why!), but today we are wondering how many languages we should learn – how many is enough? English and Scots people have an odd relationship...
by laacademia-author | Nov 12, 2015 | English for footballers, English Language Classes, English Language Tuition, ESOL classes, Language school
la Academia has a wealth of experience in teaching English to Premiership overseas coaches, so we were very interested to read about David Moyes’ language problems in Spain. Moyes’ contract with Real Sociedad has just been terminated, after less than a year of...
by laacademia-author | Nov 9, 2015 | A level MFL, Chinese classes, GCSE MFL, KS2 languages, Language school
During his recent visit to China Chancellor George Osborne said that schools will get £10m of extra funding to teach Mandarin Chinese. He revealed his daughter, Liberty, was already learning China’s main language, and said that 5,000 more pupils will learn...
by laacademia-author | Oct 15, 2015 | Language classes, Language school
One of the commonest reasons given for not learning foreign languages is there is no need, as “Everybody speaks English”. Actually, this is far from the case, as even in Europe, the level of English speaking varies widely. Even including the countries which do have...
by laacademia-author | Sep 21, 2015 | Language classes, Language school, Languages
Great question! With over 7,000 languages worldwide, deciding which is the best language to learn is a challenge! Even if we reduce the options by saying we want to be able to communicate with at least 100,000 people that still leaves around 700 languages to choose...
