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...
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...
