This course is designed to increase your fluency, by introducing a series of discussion points around topics. You will develop your vocabulary range both in terms of individual words and expressions. You will practise structures and grammatical elements in context. Lots of fun, and you will increase your confidence!
Original price was: £176.00.£158.00
(Offer expires 24 May 26)
Current price is: £158.00.In stock
If you book for more than one person, we will ask for the details of additional people when you check out, so that we can contact them to register.
Discounts usually apply for multiple bookings as follows: 2 – 5%, 3 – 7%, 4+ – 10%. These discounts are per person and are on top of any offers while they last and will be reflected in basket price shown. Discounts do not always apply.
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Each course covers a series of topics, with 2 covered per session. The topics are general/universal and not related to the culture of the country/countries whose language you are studying. The aim is to help you converse on a general level.
You can join a current course at any point; the course is not structured in a way that you will miss out from not attending previous lessons.
Language learning has many facets: speaking and listening are often paired (oral/aural) and reading and writing are another pair. Another way of looking at is “active” (speaking and writing) v “passive” (listening and reading).
We feel the key skills to master (being of most interest to the majority of our learners) are speaking and listening, so that you can communicate when travelling. Listening is probably the harder of these, as you may make yourself understood but understanding what comes back can be demanding, as how people phrase responses is unpredictable! You are ideally looking for a so-called “sympathetic interlocutor”, ie someone who understands they need to slow down, while still speaking normally, but you can’t really screen people you happen to meet! Our teachers are sympathetic interlocutions – they will speak at an appropriate pace and “grade” their language in relation to the level. This is why it’s a good idea to take courses with us in the “shallow end” before you throw yourself into deep water!
Reading of all sorts is great for input but relatively “easy”, as its not in real time. Writing is a very special skill – not everyone can write well in their first language; mastering this in another language, with aspects such as register/tone and punctuation conventions, is tough!
Our advice: focus on speaking and listening and build up your vocab, which is key to fluency. Grammatical accuracy is important too, if you want to come over as an educated person. You can buy grammar exercise books and study this aspect in your own time.
