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- Japanese 4/5: module 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Junko FuseImprove your level of upper intermediate Japanese. You will be able to understand, speak and listen to more complex expressions in Japanese in various everyday situations. Consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the structures of the Japanese language and work on more
complex grammatical structures and functions.
Suitable if you have studied Japanese for at least 6 years or have an equivalent level.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - US history for beginnersCourse start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Dafydd TownleyThis online course offers a brief examination of, and introduction to, the political, economic, social and cultural aspects of the United States, 1608 - 2001.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Japanese beginners: module 2
Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 4 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chikako NakagawaContinue learning to speak Japanese, with the emphasis on developing your listening and speaking skills,
Suitable if you have completed Japanese beginners: module 1 or learn Japanese in a complete beginners course for a term.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Italian 4: module 3 Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Evi CampetellaQuesti corsi ti daranno la possibilitá di analizzare e discutere articoli giornalistici, testi letterari e programmi televisi. Praticherai continuamente tutte le abilitá linguistiche di ascolto, comprensione ed espressione scritta ed orale. É necessario un livello avanzato di Italiano ('Italian 4: module 1' o equivalente).Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Spanish 5 práctica y perfeccionamiento: module 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Diego IudicissaEste curso es para aquellos estudiantes que han estudiado al menos cinco años de español y desean obtener un conocimiento más profundo de la lengua y cultura del mundo hispanohablante.
Based on units 8-9 of AULA C1.
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 £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Spanish 4 práctica y perfeccionamiento: module 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Diego IudicissaEste 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 5, 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 £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Welsh 4: module 3Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Macsen BrownThe aim of this course is to give students the opportunity to practise using Welsh in a wider range of contexts and for a wider range of purposes; to expand their grammatical and communicative abilities in the language; and to promote interest in and awareness of the language and its culture today.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Dutch upper intermediate Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Francine van den BergPractise and improve your advanced Dutch on this communicative course, with the emphasis on listening and speaking skills. Suitable if you have been learning Dutch for at least 3 years. - French 3 upper: module 3Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pierre PorcheronContinue to improve your upper intermediate French on this communicative course. The emphasis will be on developing your speaking and listening skills and on acquiring a greater understanding of French grammar and fluency.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Russian 4: module 3Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Alla YoungDiscuss cultural issues, aspects of Russian literature and other cultural matters and learn some advanced grammar. Suitable if you have completed Russian 4: module 2 or have equivalent exeperience.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Italian 3 lower: module 3Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Flavia D'AngelantonioImprove your intermediate Italian on this communicative course. The emphasis is on developing your oral skills and acquiring a greater understanding of Italian grammar. Suitable if you have completed module 2 or equivalent. Based on Espresso 3 (Alma Edizioni).Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £219.00 - Piano/keyboards 4CCourse start date: Thu 1 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David FrankelFor pianists with around three years' experience. Improve your finger technique, coordination, phrasing, music
reading, and your confidence.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £160.00 - Japanese 3 lower: module 3Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Chikako NakagawaImprove your level of Japanese on this communicative course where you will have the opportunity to develop your oral and listening skills as well as consolidate your reading and writing skills. Suitable if you have completed Japanese 3 lower: module 2 or 4 years recently. - Cornish advanced: module 3Course start date: Fri 2 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jo P'RhysDevelop your advanced Cornish conversation and discussion.Suitable for anyone who has studied Cornish for several years and wants to improve their oral skills.
The course prepares you for the 4th grade (final grade) of the Cornish Language Board examinations. - Exploring film directors Course start date: Fri 2 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeySeen as the unifying and creative force in a film, directors have become important for both an audience's engagement and a film's marketing and 'positioning'. This course explores the work of a range of directors, or 'auteurs', their approach to filmmaking and their thematic interests, while assessing the concept of authorship and the contexts in which a director's work is produced and consumed.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00
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