by laacademia-author | Feb 17, 2021 | Beginner classes, Business language courses, courses, Evening classes, French classes, Language classes, Language school, Languages
A period farmhouse in the glorious French countryside. That’s where my friend Ellie emigrated to three years ago, with her husband and 7 year old son. Naturally they’re all fluent speakers by now. Though I recently discovered Ellie hadn’t mastered typing French...
by laacademia-author | Dec 16, 2020 | Language for Holidays, Language school, Languages, languages for children, Languages for Toddlers, Spanish classes
It’s sometimes overlooked that Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese. In fact, Spanish is the first language of approximately 30 countries. Including most South American countries. Furthermore, it’s also sometimes overlooked...
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...
