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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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  1. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £229.00
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  2. Piano/keyboards 4A
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Henderson

    For pianists with around three years' experience. Improve your technique, coordination, phrasing, music
    reading, and your confidence.

    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £153.00
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  3. Welsh advanced
    Course start date:  Fri 19 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Wyn Griffiths
    Cwrs Cymraeg, yn Gymraeg, i ddysgwyr profiadol. Cewch gyfle i ddatblygu'ch sgiliau cyfathrebol; i drafod materion cyfoes; i gael cyflwyniad i'r iaith lenyddol; i roi sglein ar eich Cymraeg ac i wneud ffrindiau newydd. Hyn oll mewn awyrgylch gyfeillgar a chroesawgar.



    Please note that this coures includes a week's break midway through.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  4. City Lit reading group 1
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Fri 19 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Kate Wilkinson
    Share thoughts and ideas about what you are reading, with books chosen by the group. Please come to the first session on Friday 29 September with suggestions (contemporary fiction in paperback) and having read 'Story of the Forest' by Linda Grant. Meetings take place on 19/9, 24/10, 28/11, 30/1, 27/2, 27/3, 1/5, 29/5, 26/6.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  5. Spanish 3 upper: module 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Amaia Ibargüen

    Further improve your Spanish in this lively class, taught in Spanish with the emphasis on developing your speaking and listening skills. You will also acquire a greater understanding of Spanish grammar. Suitable if you have completed 'Spanish 3 lower' or equivalent. Based on Aula Internacional 3 Plus, (Difusión Publishers).

    Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another level you might use a different book.

    This is a non-accredited course. If you would like to take a further challenge and work towards a recognised qualification, you can enrol on our Spanish preparation for DELE B1 or Spanish preparation for DELE B2 course which leads to a final exam. Click here and here for further details. 

    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  6. Return to German (intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Barbara Pöllet
    Choose either an in-person course in the heart of London or live online sessions.This course is suitable if you have done GCSE, O Level or A level German some time ago and would like to return to studying German or are studying 2 upper at City Lit and would like to revise your intermediate German.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00
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  7. Spanish 3 lower: module 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Amaia Ibargüen
    Improve your intermediate Spanish on this lively course, with the emphasis on speaking, listening and acquiring a greater understanding of Spanish grammar. Suitable if you have completed 'Spanish 2: upper' or equivalent. Based on Aula Internacional 3 Plus (Difusión Publishers).







    Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another level you might use a different book.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  8. Spanish 4 práctica y perfeccionamiento: module 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Diego Iudicissa

    Este curso es ideal si has completado 'Spanish 3 upper' o 'Spanish consolidation' o has estudiado unos cinco años de español y desean obtener un conocimiento más profundo de la lengua y cultura del mundo hispanohablante. En este curso consolidarás aspectos gramaticales de la lengua con noticias y temas de actualidad a un nivel B2.2. Based on Aula Internacional Plus 4, new edition, (Difusión Publishers).

    Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another level you might use a different book.

    This is a non-accredited course. If you would like to take a further challenge and work towards a recognised qualification, you can enrol on our Spanish preparation for DELE B2 course which leads to a final exam. Click here for further details. 

    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  9. Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £130.00
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  10. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  11. French 4 at a gentle pace: module 1
    Course start date:  Thu 25 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Estelle Hélouin
    Want to learn (continue learning) French but worried that you might not be able to keep up? French 4 at a gentle pace is designed to cover the same material as our standard French 4 at a gentle pace class, but at a slightly slower pace, and with more opportunities for revision built in.
    Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
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  12. Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £130.00
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  13. Spanish 3 upper: module 3
    Course start date:  Fri 26 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Further improve your Spanish in this lively class, taught in Spanish with the emphasis on developing your speaking and listening skills. You will also acquire a greater understanding of Spanish grammar. Suitable if you have completed 'Spanish 3 upper: module 2' or equivalent. Based on Aula Internacional Plus 4, new edition, (Difusión Publishers).

    Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another level you might use a different book.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
    Rating:
    97% of 100
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  14. City Lit reading group 2
    Course start date:  Fri 26 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Patricia Sweeney
    Share thoughts and ideas about what you are reading, with books chosen by the group. Please come to the first session with suggestions (contemporary literary fiction in paperback) and having read 'Absolutely and Forever' by Rose Tremain. Monthly meetings take place on 26/9, 31/10, 5/12, 23/1, 20/2, 20/3, 8/5, 5/6, 3/7.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  15. Nineteenth Century American Literary Classics
    Course start date:  Fri 26 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Richard Niland
    This class explores the wonderful world of 19th century American literature, reading classic texts to broaden knowledge of literary history through a range of influential novels, stories, and poems. Among the writers considered in their literary, political, and cultural contexts will be Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Mark Twain and Kate Chopin.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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