Now let me start by highlighting the myth… “Children are better than learning languages than adults” This is simply not true. The fact of the matter is that children and adults are different. Both physiologically, in terms of their brains, and environmentally. To put it bluntly, adults brains are more mature and they have a tonne of other stuff to be getting on with in their life! There is a lot of research to suggest that children’s brains don’t mature fully until the teenage years. (Though experts can’t agree on when that exact ...

Are you jetting off to the French Alps this winter? Or maybe the smooth slopes of Austria have taken your fancy? Perhaps you couldn’t resist the attraction of skiing in northern Italy? Or maybe you just want to get away from the cold and head to the Southern Hemisphere: Rio de Janeiro, Havana or even Buenos Aires. In all of these examples, you will probably get away with not speaking the local lingo. Or maybe you already speak a little French or Spanish and you think you’ll get by on that. But wouldn’t it be great if you could do mor...

So we’ve been doing this for a while. Quite a while actually. One thing we’ve noticed more often than not, is that employees have goals, dreams and aspirations, far beyond just working a 9 to 5 at a company. Who knew?! This will come as no surprise of course, but one thing we also noticed is that a significant amount of employees who have been through our language courses mentioned that learning a language was also high on their list of personal goals. This pattern has come up again and again. So much so that my team suggested I write ...

This is something that isn’t really talked about a great deal. Even amongst language learners and polyglots. As avid language learners I suppose we take it for granted! There is a certain joy to learning and improving in a foreign language. But can it actually help to improve your mental health? Well it would appear that the simple activity of learning a language over time can lead to improved mental health and wellbeing. How is this? We’ll go into the 4 key points that make this happen in the following article so read on if you want to f...

Wow, what a stonker! This is a question that we get asked on an almost daily basis. The frustrating thing is that it’s virtually impossible, if not completely impossible to answer. At least without quite a few big assumptions. The closest we can get is to give out some general guidelines in terms of how many hours of private lessons will be needed to reach X level in the chosen language. To be honest though, even this isn’t really good enough. There are so many factors to take into account when answering this question. In this post I...