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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. French 2 lower: taster
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 8 Dec 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Valerie Jézéquel
    Get a flavour of what an elementary French class feels like. A fascinating taster course!
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  2. Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  3. Lipreading taster session
    Course start date:  Mon 8 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Daryl Joyce
    This taster is suitable for total beginners and will give you an insight into how lipreading works and the opportunity to try out some fun exercises.

    This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.

    See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  4. Welsh film night
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rhianwen Daniel

    Join us in the Cultureplex to round off the term with a classic Anglo-Welsh film — a relaxed evening of culture and cinema.

    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  5. Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  6. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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  7. Italian taster
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Dec 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Maria Fontana
    Get a flavour of this beautiful language and begin to discover how it works. Learn some useful phrases and pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners and a chance to decide if learning Italian is something you might like to take further.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  8. German intermediate x mas special 
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Barbara Pöllet
    Come to this one off German intermediate x mas special in the heart of London.
    Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00
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  9. Scottish Gaelic pronunciation workshop: mouth music
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michael Hill

    Discover the rhythm of Scots Gaelic on this lively workshop on puirt à beul—a fun, musical way to master pronunciation and explore Celtic culture!

    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  10. Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  11. Art in medieval Sahara: Mansa Musa, the golden king of ancient Mali
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anita Chowdry

    This session explores the art of Mansa Musa, the celebrated ruler of the 14th century gold-producing Empire of Mali in the Western Sahara and Sahel. This provides a way into further study of the Precolonial African Kingdoms.

    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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  12. Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £97.00
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  13. Music analysis for listeners: Messiah Part I
    Course start date:  Wed 10 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Pauline Greene
    Handel’s Messiah, composed in1741, is a stalwart work for concert programmers everywhere at Christmas and Easter. We look at Part I, from the beginning to the duet and chorus ‘His yoke is easy’, briefly putting the work in context and examining its forms and overall structure. We will then analyse a passage of recitative, an aria, and a chorus, in order to show how the composer created his effects and how effective this was for audiences then and now. *This course includes a 60 minute break.
    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  14. Brazilian Portuguese film matinee
    Course start date:  Wed 10 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Óscar Salgado Suárez

    Save up to 15% when you book onto selected language culture workshops. Find out more >

    The Brazilian Portuguese Film Matinee is a chance to find out more about Brazilian cinema in the college. The film will be presented by one of our wonderful Brazilian Portuguese tutors and there will be a discussion afterwards.

    The film we will be watching is the critically-acclaimed Aquarius, a 2016 co-production of Brazil and France, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and starring Sônia Braga;  

    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00
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  15. German beginners: module 1
    Course start date:  Wed 10 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anna Rioland

    Choose either an in-person course in the heart of London or live online sessions.This course aims to enable students to begin to communicate with some fluency in a range of everyday situations.The emphasis is on the practical use of German and the development of your speaking and listening skills. Based on chapters 1-4 of Willkommen (Hodder Arnold).

    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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