Open days at Nottingham Language Academy

Nottingham Language Academy is staging a series of open days as the centre gears up for the start of a new term.

Running on Thursday 8th September, Monday 12th September and Wednesday 21st September between 2pm and 7pm, the sessions are the chance to discover more about the modern languages tuition and the English as a Foreign Language courses available at Nottingham Language Academy.

The centre, based at the Ropewalk, Nottingham, opened a year ago and offers classes in the modern languages of French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Greek, Mandarin and Arabic. It also provides tuition in English as a Foreign Language to individuals and to businesses.

“We’re looking forward to opening our doors to our latest students as we celebrate our first anniversary,” said Linda Walker, who runs the academy. “Since opening in September 2010, we’ve expanded the courses on offer, helped hundreds of people to either improve their English as a foreign language or to learn a modern foreign language, and we’ve also played host to dozens of students at our summer schools.

“The open days are a great chance to find out more about what we offer and our ethos of small class sizes and tailored lessons.”

Classes are run during the day, evenings and at weekends, and are designed for people who want to improve their job prospects, travel and see the world, live and work abroad, gain a place at university or learn something new for the fun of it.

Nottingham Language Academy also works with businesses to improve the language skills of staff. Linda Walker is a Business Language Champion in the East Midlands.

Modern foreign languages classes start a new term at the end of September. English as a Foreign Language tuition is on-going.

Nottingham Language Academy is based at 8 The Ropewalk, Nottingham. For more information visit www.nottinghamlanguageacademy.co.uk or call 0330 333 6192.

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Nottingham Language Academy launches classes in Mandarin

Nottingham Language Academy is expanding its courses just months after opening by launching tuition in Mandarin.

The language school based at The Ropewalk in the city is now offering lessons at intermediate level in Mandarin, which has more native speakers than any other language in the world.

The morning class is being taught by an expert native speaker and has been launched in response to demand from students.

It brings the number of modern foreign languages taught at Nottingham Language Academy to seven.

“Learning Mandarin is becoming more popular as a result of China’s re-emergence on the world stage, but courses are not widely available, so I am delighted that we can now offer a course in Mandarin at Nottingham Language Academy,” said Linda Walker, who is a Business Language Champion in the East Midlands and who launched the language school in September.

The school, which offers tuition to individuals and businesses, also teaches English as a foreign language, alongside the modern languages of French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese and Greek.

Classes are run during the day, evenings and at weekends, and are designed for people who want to improve their job prospects, travel and see the world, live and work abroad, gain a place at university or learn something new for the fun of it.

The modern foreign languages courses are linked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) which now forms the basis of language teaching and learning in most EU countries.

“It’s estimated that more than 800 million people in the world speak Mandarin, and it’s spoken by more people than any other language in the world,” said Linda. “As it’s spoken in mainland China and Taiwan it’s understandable that there seems to be a growing demand to learn it now.”

Nottingham Language Academy is based at 8 The Ropewalk, Nottingham. For more information visit www.nottinghamlanguageacademy.co.uk or call 0330 333 6192.

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