by laacademia-author | Jul 3, 2015 | A level MFL, GCSE MFL, Language classes, Languages
The advice for students wanting to go to a Russell Group university who do not yet know what subject their degree will be in, is to keep their options open by choosing at least two “facilitating subjects” at A-level. These are the subjects which provide good...
by laacademia-author | Jun 24, 2015 | Languages, Uncategorized
La Academia recently came across a beautiful illustration of the relationship of Indo-European and Uralic languages, by Minna Sundberg. It really shows how European languages are related to each other and to languages such as Persian and Punjabi that share common...
by laacademia-author | Jun 12, 2015 | Language classes, Languages
Nearly all the research whether from Europe or further afield shows that language students are not very worried about being in a language class, but that their anxiety levels rise when they are asked to speak in the target language. The reasons for this tend to be:...
by laacademia-author | Jun 10, 2015 | Languages
As a language school, we are often asked by students what techniques can help you learn a language? We recently surveyed some of our language students to learn more about the methods they use, and thought we’d share this so other language learners can benefit. All the...
by laacademia-author | May 28, 2015 | Languages, Spanish classes
The US is increasingly a bilingual country. With 37m native Spanish speakers, up 233% since 1980, when there were 11 million Spanish speakers (pewresearch.org), more attention is being paid to which candidates can debate in Spanish, and which of them are translating...
by laacademia-author | May 8, 2015 | Language classes, Languages
During la Academia’s recent research with learners at our language school, one of the interesting findings was on the question of learning languages in a group. We asked our students about their experience of learning in a group – specifically their reasons for...
