by laacademia-author | Jul 1, 2013 | Latest News
The translation and interpreting challenges of a major international event like the G8 Summit are huge, and la Academia is really proud to have contributed staff to the interpreting team in Northern Ireland. The team consisted of 24 people, whose job was to ensure...
by laacademia-author | Feb 23, 2013 | French classes, Languages, Latest News
French institution elects British professor Michael Edwards, a poet who writes in English and French, joins the institution charged with protecting the purity of the French language. Since the all-pervasive nature of “Anglo-Saxon” culture and vocabulary has often been...
by laacademia-author | Jan 1, 2013 | Latest News
Happy New Year to all our language students! The age range of our classes is very wide – from 4 up to… we’d better not say, so some of our students in school language classes may not have been allowed to stay up to see in the New Year, whereas others...
by laacademia-author | Nov 18, 2012 | Chinese classes, French classes, German classes, Italian classes, KS2 languages, Language classes in schools, Latest News, MFL in primaries, Spanish classes
On Friday the Department of Education confirmed that, following a consultation earlier in the year, it will make language learning compulsory at Key Stage 2 from September 2014. The DofE has now put forward a list of suggested languages – French, Spanish,...
by laacademia-author | Oct 26, 2012 | Latest News, Spanish classes
We were quite excited by this news, but rather disappointed on hearing the ad itself, since Mrs Obama doesn’t actually speak any Spanish – subtitles provide the translation of her words into Spanish. Cristina Saralegui, a Cuban-American talk show host who supports...
by laacademia-author | Oct 10, 2012 | Chinese classes, Language classes, Latest News
The Chinese people are just getting back to work after a week off to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was on September 30th. This is a Holiday, followed by another week off from October 1st to 7th to celebrate National Day, so there will have been a lot of...
