Easter 2024
I would like to wish you a blessed Easter and a jolly Spring festival. I shall be off the grid from 28 March to 2 April (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Monday & the ‘Bando de la Huerta’). We start again on Wednesday 3 April.
Examination results
Congratulations to Gonzalo on obtaining LanguageCert C2 Mastery, cum laude.
Learning a new language can change the way you see the world
https://www.psypost.org/2024/01/learning-a-new-language-can-reshape-your-concept-of-color-according-to-new-psychology-research-220742 Christmas 2023
I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a new year filled with peaceful stability.
Christmas holiday break
We shall stop our classes/lessons on 22 December 2023 and restart on 8 January 2024. That is a two-week break. It also means that December and January will only have three academic weeks instead of the usual four. Therefore, your tuition fees will be 75% of the normal fee for both December and January.
Which languages are difficult?
‘The difficulty in learning a foreign language lies not only in its inherent complexity. Languages are complex in different ways (though all are learnable by infants). The main reason a language is hard is that it is different from your own.’ https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/which-languages-take-the-longest-to-learn-20231031-p5ege7.html
The benefits of learning another language
‘By speaking a second language, we can even become more rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal with uncertainty. This phenomenon is known as the “foreign language effect” and the benefits may be an inspiration for anyone who would like to enrich their mind with the words of another tongue.’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/17/how-learning-thinking-in-a-foreign-language-improves-decision-making
New academic year 2023/2024
We begin our new academic year on 4 September 2023. I shall get in touch with you during the course of the week (beginning 28 August).
End of the 2022/2023 academic year
I should like to express my gratitude for your support over this last academic year. We have learnt together and from each other. I wish you a restful summer holiday.
Special July 2023 courses
C1 Intensive (exam preparation) Mondays & Wednesdays 19h00 – 21h00 3 July 2023 – 26 July 2023 B2 Maintenance Mondays & Wednesday 17h00 – 18h00 3 July 2023 – 26 July 2023
