Hola!
Here you’ll find information about all our free online Spanish courses we are currently running. Click on the course you are interested in to the left for course notes, homework sheets, clips of the lessons and al sorts of other bits and pieces.
You can sign up for our online spanish courses at http://www.thelanguagemachine.co.uk/freespanishcourse.htm
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The Language Machine
Our new free online language courses have started and have so far been a great success. We’ve been running some Spanish courses since June and so far have taught over one hundred people Spanish!
We’re planning to add some courses in different languages soon and when we do they’ll be announced here. Until then you can see our schedule for Spanish courses at http://www.thelanguagemachine.co.uk/freespanishcourse.htm
You can view course notes, videos and other information about specific courses by clicking on the relevant category links to the left.
This week’s featured product from our on line bookshop is the Practice Makes Perfect: German Vocabulary.
If you are looking to consolidate your existing knowledge or you are starting to build up your vocabulary, this book will help you through exercises divided into themes.
You’ll learn to use words in context and will help you acquire and memorize new vocabulary.
You can find this and another interesting material here:
The Language Machine hosted the first lesson of a series of on line Spanish courses on 11th May. Those students who took advantage of this unique opportunity enjoyed this first session and started learning the basics which will be completed in a 6 weeks course. It is live, in real time, completely free and is taught by a highly qualified native speaker of Spanish. Keep your eyes peeled for the next series of free on line courses offered by The Language Machine!
Welcome Marie-Pierre to The Language Machine tutor team! We are delighted to introduce our new tutor in the Durham area. With more than 10 years experience teaching, from secondary to University level, Marie-Pierre has not only delivered language lessons but also French culture, politics and society courses. If you would like to learn French with a high qualified and experienced native tutor in the Durham area, now you have a unique chance. Welcome, Marie-Pierre!
The Language Machine would like to give a warm welcome to Souad, our new tutor in Nottingham. She has a Law Degree and a PGCE in French and Arabic. She’s been teaching both languages at all levels for the last few years to a high standard, including preparing GCSE and A Level students. Welcome Souad!
Welcome to all the new tutors who have recently joined our team at The Language Machine.
Min will be joining us to teach Chinese in London. She’s qualified to teach languages and has extensive experience teaching both Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese.
Reginaldo will be teaching Portuguese in Oxford. He is a EFL teacher with 13 years experience teaching languages and is looking forward to teaching English and his mother tongue in the Oxford area.
Benoit-Vincent will teach French in the Reading area. He’s got lots of experience teaching in the private and public sector, helping students prepare their GCSE and A Levels, as well as adults and university students.
Welcome to The Language Machine!
From BBC News 21st April 2009
James Lillis, a bus driver who’s been driving buses in Glasgow for 30 years, has been helping his foreign colleagues understand “Glaswegian”.
Foreign drivers, who mostly come from Poland, Hungary, Lithuania and other European countries have benefited from his knowledge and have been able to decipher some of the Glasgow “patter”.
By learning some of the expressions used in the city, foreign drivers have become more confident and can now understand the famous Glasgow dialect.
If you wish to know more about Mr Lillis’ work and learn some “Glaswegian”, you can find more information here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8010036.stm
The Instituto Cervantes has just launched a new free TV channel where students of Spanish everywhere in the world will be able to watch a diverse range of programmes including documentaries, interviews and news.
You can watch Cervantes TV, practice your Spanish and learn a bit more about Hispanic culture here: www.cervantestv.es
First 1000 Words in Spanish Sticker Book (First thousand words sticker book)
By Heather Amery
Although published with children in mind, this book will be useful for everyone starting to learn Spanish.
With the help of stickers, a glossary and a pronunciation guide, it’s a relaxed and fun way to learn basic words in Spanish. You’ll find this and other interesting material at The Language Machine Bookshop here:
http://www.thelanguagemachine.co.uk/languagebookshop.htm
