How long until I can hold a conversation?

It depends on the hours you put in and how much you use it outside class. We will give you an honest answer after the level check, not a number from an advert.

That is what the level check is for. Most people are a level below where they think and a level above where they fear.

I learned it at school and forgot everything.

Most of it is still there, and it comes back faster than it went.

Are classes in the language from the start?

Mostly, from the first lesson, with explanations in a language you understand when they are needed.

Usually, if there is a group at your level. Ask and we will tell you.

Do you prepare for certificates?

Yes, including the speaking part, which is where most people lose marks.

Speaking from the first lesson

Name: Your Business Name
Address: 1 Example Street, Anytown
Telephone: +1 555 010 0000

Small classes and one to one lessons where you talk more than the teacher. Come for a level check and start where you actually are.

Book a level check What we teach

You do the talking
Start where you are
Mistakes are the work

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Monday to Friday, 9am – 9pm

+1 555 010 0000

What we teach

Group classes
Small groups by level, A1 to C2, once or twice a week, with real conversation.
One to one
Built around your reason, your pace and your week.
Exam preparation
Whichever certificate you need, with mock papers and — above all — the speaking part.
For work
The language of your job: meetings, emails, customers, the site or the clinic.
Conversation classes
For people who can read it perfectly and freeze when they have to speak.
Grammar clinics
For the three things that keep going wrong, rather than a whole book of them.
Children and teenagers
Lessons that work alongside school rather than repeating it.
Intensive courses
Before a move or a deadline, with hours that add up quickly.
Online lessons
The same teaching, from wherever you are.
Certificates
A statement of the level you reached, for an employer or a university.

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In the classroom

You do the talking
If the teacher is talking most of the hour, it is the wrong hour.
Start where you are
A short level check first, so nobody is bored or lost.
Mistakes are the work
Corrected kindly, in a room where everybody is getting things wrong.
For a real reason
A job, an exam, a move, a family — lessons are built around yours.

The schoolLanguage as something you use, not something you study

Most people arrive after years of lessons that taught grammar and left them unable to speak. So we start the other way round: you use what you have, badly at first, and the grammar arrives to explain what you are already doing.

Progress is measured by what you can do — book a table, argue with a landlord, sit an exam — rather than by how many pages we have covered.

What we teach

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Starting a course

Placed at the right level, not the one on paper.

Step 1A short level test
A conversation and a few written questions, free, and it tells us more than your school report.
Step 2Pick a group
The right level — A1 to C2 — at a time that fits your week.
Step 3Classes
Speaking from the first one, with homework you can actually manage.
Step 4Check your progress
A review each term, and a move up a level when you are ready for it.

Questions people ask

How long until I can hold a conversation?
It depends on the hours you put in and how much you use it outside class. We will give you an honest answer after the level check, not a number from an advert.
What level am I?
That is what the level check is for. Most people are a level below where they think and a level above where they fear.
I learned it at school and forgot everything.
Most of it is still there, and it comes back faster than it went.
Are classes in the language from the start?
Mostly, from the first lesson, with explanations in a language you understand when they are needed.
Can I join mid-term?
Usually, if there is a group at your level. Ask and we will tell you.
Do you prepare for certificates?
Yes, including the speaking part, which is where most people lose marks.

The school

The classrooms, the people, and the wall where everybody writes their reason for learning.

Where we are

The address is below, with directions from wherever you are. Lessons can also be online.

1 Example Street, Anytown

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Need it for something?

Tell us the deadline and we will tell you honestly what is possible before it.

Call us

Book a level check

Send which language, why you need it, roughly what level you think you are and when you are free. The level check takes twenty minutes.

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Monday to Friday, 9am – 9pm
Saturday, mornings
Sunday, closed