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...
by laacademia-author | May 7, 2019 | languages for children, Languages for Toddlers
Save the Children’s report (Lighting up Young Brains) states that a child’s early years are a ‘critical opportunity for the brain to develop key skills’. Toddlers’ brains are twice as active as adults and form connections at twice the rate of grown-ups....
by laacademia-author | Apr 14, 2019 | Language classes in schools, Languages, languages for children
There have been some depressing headlines recently about the state of foreign language learning in UK secondary schools. BBC analysis highlights language learning drops of between 30% and 50% since 2013 in the numbers taking GCSE language courses. This is the lowest...
