by laacademia-author | Jan 14, 2020 | Evening classes, Language for Holidays, Languages, Spanish classes
It’s that holiday time of year. Not for going on one perhaps, but certainly for booking one. More Britons than ever holidayed abroad in the 12 months to late July 2019, according to ABTA’s latest Holiday Habits Report. More than six in ten Brits (64%) took a foreign...
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 | Mar 12, 2015 | Business language courses, Chinese classes, Language classes
In an interesting article in The Scotsman last week a Scottish MEP courted controversy by claiming that “in terms of international trade French is a very minor language”, and suggesting that schoolchildren should learn “Spanish or Arabic or Mandarin...
by laacademia-author | Feb 17, 2015 | Languages
Ways to learn more foreign language words! Thanks to “Current Biology” for publishing some really interesting research last week, specific to learning vocabulary in a foreign language. When looking at most areas of learning, using different sensory methods is...
by laacademia-author | Sep 22, 2014 | KS2 languages, Language classes in schools, MFL in primaries
Welcome back, Primary School students and teachers! One aspect of your lives that may be about to change is that learning a language is now compulsory at KS2. This may fill teachers with dread – one more subject that someone will have to teach – but...
