by laacademia-author | Apr 6, 2021 | Beginner classes, Business language courses, Language classes, Language classes in schools, Language school, Languages, languages for children, Languages for Toddlers, Uncategorized
A lost 3.5% of GDP due to missed business opportunities. That’s a lot of money not landing on these shores as a direct result of our language skills being below par in an international arena. Our pre-Covid GDP in 2019 was £2.17 trillion according to Statista...
by laacademia-author | Mar 28, 2021 | Language classes, Language for Holidays, Language school, Languages, languages for children
This past unusual year has been a big year for language learning. Aldermore Banking Company shared the results of research carried out in in the final quarter of 2020, revealing that – “Nearly one in ten (9%) UK adults decided to spend their time and money learning a...
by laacademia-author | Dec 16, 2020 | Language for Holidays, Language school, Languages, languages for children, Languages for Toddlers, Spanish classes
It’s sometimes overlooked that Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese. In fact, Spanish is the first language of approximately 30 countries. Including most South American countries. Furthermore, it’s also sometimes overlooked...
by laacademia-author | Nov 29, 2019 | Beginner classes, languages for children, Languages for Toddlers, Latest News, Nursery Schools, Toddlers
The Gift of Language Our children are growing up in a very different society. One where the largest retailer doesn’t own its stock (Amazon), a global taxi company doesn’t own its vehicles (Uber), and the most popular hotel chain doesn’t own hotels...
by laacademia-author | Aug 27, 2019 | languages for children, Languages for Toddlers, Nursery Schools, Spanish classes
We love teaching Spanish in nursery schools. But, you might be thinking that teaching pre-schoolers is futile. Not true – in fact we now know that the best time for a child to learn another language is in the first three to four years of life. Why? Learning Language...
by laacademia-author | Aug 8, 2019 | French classes, Language classes, languages for children, Uncategorized
Lena is from beautiful Brittany. She’s 26, and has been in the UK for 5 years teaching French. She took time out from her busy schedule with la Academia to tell me about herself and to encourage you to learn French with her. Why did you come to England? I had a job...