LEARN SPANISH AND FRENCH AT YOUR OWN PACE FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME

The Language Store is entering the new era of technology. From September you will be able to attend group lessons or private lessons in Spanish and French from the comfort of your home. Just you, your computer and your cup of coffee.

The courses will be delivered through Moodle, a VLE. You will not need any special software, but you will need:

- To have a computer (PC or Mac)

- You will need to be able to play sound and register sound. (Through headphones/microphone)

More details about the courses will follow shortly, but these are the main advantages:

Group lessons

- You will be able to get feedback from the tutor quickly in between lessons, through email and forums.

- You will be able to be in touch with the other students through forums and collaborative activities. So, you don't have to wait till the lesson to have a go at speaking Spanish!

- Weekly conference calls through Skype to keep your speaking and understanding up to date!

- Cheaper than your local college as there is no overheads or rents to cover.

- Higher quality courses than your local college:

- Because the groups are small (3 - 7 people rather than the 14 needed for college courses)

- We use all our teaching time to teach, prepare resources and give feedback to students rather than filling in paperwork for the college.

- We follow a more European approach to teach languages, building up students confidence and proficiency using the grammar building blocks, rather than teaching the students 'set phrases' that they will not know how to adjust.

- All students will be placed in a group of their same level. We don't put together students with different levels just to 'make up the numbers'.

- It is very unlikely that a course will be cancelled as we will run it with as little as 3 people.

- For Spanish we will follow the syllabus for the qualifications of Spanish as Foreign language of Instituto Cervantes. Which are recognized worldwide. So, students can work towards them and then sit the exam of Instituto Cervantes in one of the centers around the UK. (The fee for the DELE exams is paid directly to the Instituto Cervantes)

- For French we will follow the syllabus for the qualifications of French as a Foreign Language of the Institut Français, DALF. Again, students will be able to work towards these internationally recognized qualifications and then take the test at one of the centers in the UK. (The fee for the DELF exams is paid directly to the Instituto Cervantes)

Why The Language Store instead of another online provider:

- The course we are providing is online based, so you will have all the online activities you would have in any other online course, but with the added benefit of a real-time lesson once a week with your tutor and other students.

The dates and enrollment details will be published near the start of the course. The first courses will be launched in September 2009.

For Spanish course content click here

For French course content click here