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- Arabic 3 lower: module 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Alaa SonjoqLearn Arabic on this live online course. Develop your fluency on this course taught in Arabic, with the emphasis on speaking and listening. You should have completed Arabic 3 lower: module 2, or studied Arabic for approximately 3 years recently or have developed an equivalent competence in the language. - French 4 pratique et perfectionnement: module 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anais PerdaemsUn cours de français animé pour réviser et pratiquer la langue tout en participant à des discussions sur différents sujets d'actualité. - Chinese 4/5: module 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ting PoonYou will consolidate your knowledge of Chinese Mandarin in the heart of London on this lively classroom-based course. Suitable if you have studied Chinese for 5 years part time or have an equivalent level. - Swedish 4: module 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Yohanna JacobssonThis online course is for upper intermediate students of Swedish, with a focus on improving your speaking and listening skills.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00 - Russian advanced conversationCourse start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Inessa RayThis is a very advanced discussion group covering topical and cultural issues with relevant points of grammar, as and when necessary. You should have an advanced level of Russian (5 or more years).Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - 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 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 - Italian 4: module 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)
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 - Japanese beginners: module 2Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
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. - 'Foreign films': European cinema from the fiftiesCourse start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: John WischmeyerThey were called ‘foreign films’ in the fifties, the first films to emerge from Europe and further to a wider British and American audience: Bicycle Thieves (1948 Vittorio De Sica) Rashomon (1950 Akira Kurosawa), Pather Panchali (1955 Satyajit Ray), Seven Samurai (1954 Akira Kurosawa), The Seventh Seal (1957 Ingmar Bergman), Plein Soleil (1960 Rene Clement). They played at The Academy Oxford Street or The Everyman Hampstead. Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you discover a whole world of amazing films. Too many filmgoers are scared off by the notion of international cinema. In cultural shorthand, ‘foreign film’ was a euphemism for snootiness, a stereotype that kept audiences from experiencing some of the greatest movies ever made. Once you open yourself up to them you’ll find there’s nothing to be intimidated by.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - 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 - Piano repertoireCourse start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Shelagh SutherlandIf you have a minimum playing standard of grade 8, come and explore the wealth of piano repertoire, concentrating on style and period. Broaden your interpretive skills and gain experience in performance practice. Break week: 29 May 2024.Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £349.00 Concession £244.00
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