Courses - Online & in London

Have you been learning English for a long time but your writing just doesn’t seem to be improving? Are you quite a fluent speaker but find formal speaking difficult? Do you feel ‘stuck’. This course will release you! You will focus on how to improve the structure of your writing both the whole text, paragraphs and sentences. You will work on understanding the grammar of the language, and the skills you learn to develop your writing will help you improve your more formal speaking whether this is for job interviews, meetings at work or giving presentations. This course is ideal if you have been living in the UK for several years, feel quite comfortable in speaking English as a second language, but lack confidence in your literacy skills.



You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).



This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

Learn to speak Spanish on this lively, communicative course for complete beginners. Taught in Spanish with the emphasis on developing your listening and speaking skills.







Based on Units 1-4 of 'Nos Vemos Hoy' (Campus Difusión). PLEASE DO NOT BUY IT UNTIL AFTER THE FIRST CLASS (see the 'Are there any other costs' section).



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

If you would like to consolidate your French 4 level before moving to French 5, this course is ideal as it will develop your speaking and listening skills and consolidate your grammar.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Who am I? Is there such a thing as “my true self”? These and related questions will be looked at from various philosophical perspectives.



NB There will be no class on 28/05/24.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Continue learning to speak Italian on this communicative course, with the emphasis on the practical use of Italian and the development of your speaking and listening skills. Suitable if you have completed beginners: module 2 or equivalent. Based on Nuovo Espresso 1 (Alma Edizioni - Italian version). Suggested progression route: Italian 2 lower: module 1.

Suitable if you have completed Italian 2 lower: module 1. Improve your elementary Italian on this communicative course. The emphasis is on developing your oral skills. Suitable if you have completed 2 Lower: module 1 or equivalent. Based on Nuovo Espresso 2 (Alma Edizioni - Italian version).



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Designed for fluent non- native students and all who have completed 'English Pronunciation' stages 1 and 2. Conversation and the reading aloud of a variety of texts will help to pinpoint those pronunciation worries still to be addressed.



This course will be taught online.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Continue learning Chinese on this beginners course.You should have completed Chinese beginners: module 1 or equivalent.

Continue to learn classical style and guitar technique in this 3rd term of beginners' study. Improve your music reading and understanding of guitar tab. Live sessions online.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Continue improving your elementary Spanish on this communicative course, taught in Spanish with the emphasis on speaking and listening. Suitable if you have completed 'Spanish 2 lower: module 2' or equivalent. Based on units 11-15 of 'Ele Actual A2 (libro del alumno)' and exercise book (SM Publishers).



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

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 3 lower: module 2' or equivalent. Based on Aula Internacional Plus 3, (Difusión Publishers).



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Continue learning to speak Spanish on this lively, communicative course for near beginners. Taught in Spanish with the emphasis on developing your listening and speaking skills. Based on units 11-15 of Ele Actual A1(IF) (libro del alumno) and exercise book (SM Publishers). Suitable if you have completed Spanish beginners: module 2.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.