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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  2. French 3 upper: conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 7 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Stephanie Radet
    Come and practise your intermediate spoken French and develop your language skills in these topical discussion classes. Based on recordings from French television, radio news and newspaper articles.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  3. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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  4. Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00
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  5. Cornish intermediate: module 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 26 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gary Retallick
    Come to consolidate and practice your upper-intermediate Cornish. You should have studied for 2/3 years.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  6. French 4: conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 30 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Valerie Jézéquel
    Venez discuter d'une diversité de sujets dans ce cours vivant et créatif qui vous aidera à renforcer vos compétences orales.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  7. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  8. Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £90.00
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  9. Using your voice for audio books and talking newspapers
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  David Thorpe
    Would you like to narrate audio books? Are you interested in community work such as talking newspapers for the blind? Explore vocal skills and techniques required in these areas and identify what style works for you. This course will be delivered online.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00
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  10. French 3 lower: conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Oct 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michel Willame
    Come and practise your intermediate spoken French and develop your language skills in these topical discussion classes. Based on recordings from French television, radio news and newspaper articles.
    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00
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  11. Improve your speaking voice
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 21 Jun 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lloyd Wylde
    This course is ideal if you seek greater clarity and confidence in how you communicate. Through a series of exercises and drills, you will learn how to improve your speaking voice.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00
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  12. Presenting on the spot
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 11 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Stephanie Lunn
    Learn key vocal techniques and public speaking strategies that will support you when you need to give a memorable impromptu presentation or speech with gravitas and confidence. This course will be delivered in the college.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00
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  13. Ways into advanced film studies: film aesthetics
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    Have you wondered why a film might have moved you so powerfully or why it looked so stunningly beautiful? Have you wanted to know quite how a film was able to communicate its story to you so effectively? If so, then this advanced level film studies course is for you. It aims to explore in depth the language of cinema, the way in which film connects with its spectators at the level of film form, in other words, film aesthetics. Writers and critics have long asked similar questions, as have filmmakers themselves, and we will follow some of the most celebrated in their quest for answers. We will look briefly at how films are made and at the importance of cinematography, editing, mise en scène and sound, before exploring in depth film’s aesthetic qualities. We will think about the importance of history for the development of film form and we will analyse clips and sequences from individual films so as to better approach and understand film aesthetics.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  14. The Contemporary Global Novel
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 7 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rebecca Jones
    Are you curious about reading contemporary global literature? Would you like to understand what we mean by the ‘global novel’, reading across cultures and national borders? This in-college course will introduce you to the study of global literature through reading three brilliant 21st century global novels: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled and Julie Otsuka’s Buddha in the Attic.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  15. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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