If you want to work abroad, or are going on holiday overseas, then learning a foreign language can really help.
These courses offer a great interactive way of learning over 100 languages - from Afrikaans to Zulu.
You'll learn how to:
- Ask for directions
- Use greetings and essential phrases
- Order food and drink and ask for directions
- Talk about food, colours, shopping, parts of the body, numbers, telling the time and countries.
Can I learn at different levels?
Yes, for our most popular languages, you can progress at four different levels:
With our beginner course you'll soon be able to:
- Use greetings and essential phrases
- Order food and drink
- Ask for directions
- Describe food, colours, shopping, parts of the body, numbers, telling the time and countries
- Develop a wide vocabulary
Our beginner plus level teaches you to:
- Pronounce the alphabet
- Use basic conversational phrases whilst you're at the hotel, talking on the phone, at a restaurant or out shopping
- Use structures that can be adapted to fit different situations and put together complete sentences
- Describe an emergency
- Build your confidence in speaking
The intermediate courses will help you to:
- Focus on your social life with up-to-the-minute phrases
- Describe your family, home, school and work
- Talk about sports, current affairs, your hobbies and friends
- Develop a social networking vocabulary
With our business course you can:
- Develop a general business vocabulary
- Use specialist phrases
- Discuss business meetings and arrange business travel
- Take part in advanced discussion of exchange rates, product guarantees and marketing budgets
- Talk about your career
How will you learn?
You learn online - all you need is access to the internet.
- Learn in ten-minute sessions, or if you really want to, you can cover the basics in a weekend!
- Start speaking straight away by repeating what you hear - then compare your voice to a native speaker.
- Learn new words as you play games - with pictures to reinforce your memory
- Test your knowledge with fun quizzes
- Carry on learning as you travel - just print out the phrasebook sheets included in the program and take them with you.
You can even set the course to teach you in a language of your choice
So, if you're a Polish speaker who wants to learn English, it's easy - or, if you're an Arabic speaker interested in speaking Italian – no problem. Simply buy the language that you want to learn, and then change the "support language" as soon as you start.
How long will it take?
You'll have access to your language course for 12 months so you can dip in and out of your learning whenever you like within that time.
How much do the courses cost?
£29.99 (£24.99 + VAT) - at all levels
For our most popular languages, you can buy a bundle of beginner and beginner plus courses for £49.99.
If you live in Wales there may be funding available for your course.
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