by laacademia-author | Jan 6, 2016 | Languages, Latest News
Recent research in Taiwan has shown that people process language in the same way, even when their native languages are very different. Studying speakers of 4 very different languages – English, Spanish, Hebrew and Chinese – the team showed that their brains show...
by laacademia-author | Dec 24, 2015 | Language classes, Languages, Latest News
Would it be cool or scary to be taught by a robot? A 3m euro EU programme starting in January will use humanoid robots to teach languages to 4-year-olds. Some will learn English as a second language, while immigrant children in Germany who speak Turkish as their first...
by laacademia-author | Dec 9, 2015 | Latest News, Spanish classes
Football is a very international business these days. La Academia sees the value that managers and staff at Premier League clubs get from learning each others’ language, as we are teaching at several clubs. Recently former Manchester United star Gary Neville was...
by laacademia-author | Oct 12, 2015 | Beginner classes, Language classes, Languages, Latest News
Swedish is not a language that is taught in UK schools and you may not ever have thought of learning Swedish. But with the increasing popularity of “Nordic Noir” Sweden is getting more on our radar – how about learning some of the language to get to know Sweden...
by laacademia-author | Jul 23, 2015 | Languages, Latest News
Recently, la Academia blogged about how a second foreign language helps with getting to University, and this week, an article in the press caught our eye – in their latest recruitment campaign the Metropolitan Police are requiring candidates have a second language....
by laacademia-author | Mar 28, 2015 | Languages, Latest News
Some interesting and slightly scary research from Lancaster University, recently published in the journal “Psychological Science”, shows the way that we think is affected by the language we are using. Professor Panos Athanasopoulos researched bilingual German and...
