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- French beginners: module 1
Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025 (and 9 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Valerie JézéquelLearn French on this lively interactive course for beginners. The course will be taught in French, with an emphasis on developing your speaking and listening skills.
Please note that course LF182 is a blended delivery course. Sessions on 25/10, 01/11, 06/12 and 13/12 for this course will be delivered in person in our main buiding on Keeley Street. Sessions on 08/11, 15/11, 22/11 and 29/11 will be delivered online.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - German beginners: module 1 Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anna RiolandChoose 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 £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Zumba gold Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Eleanor ShearnLearn dance fitness moves and enjoy a fun workout to help with cardiovascular fitness, muscular conditioning, flexibility, co-ordination and balance. Suitable for active older adults, beginners and those who prefer lower intensity Zumba®.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £125.00 - City Lit evening reading groupCourse start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Claire AllenShare 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 'The Wren, The Wren' by Anne Enright. We meet on the following dates: 22/9, 20/10, 24/11, 12/1, 16/2, 16/3, 11/5, 8/6, 6/7.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00 - Pilates mixed levels Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Eleanor ShearnLearn unique Pilates exercises to improve your core strength, muscular strength, balance, posture and relaxation. Develop your technique, use small equipment, and progress your practise. Include these enjoyable exercises into your daily routine for improved health.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £146.00 - Meditation for Emotional Wellbeing Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sally PageLearn how to de-stress, rejuvenate and cultivate calm using a variety of Mindfulness and Meditation techniques. From
understanding why we get stressed, to applying this understanding in everyday real life situations. Releasing stress to
cultivate an experience of calm, a positive state of mind, and significantly reduce stress levels and tension held in the
body.Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £109.00 - Hindi beginners: module 1Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sabrina OsborneGet off to a flying start in Hindi is this lively face to face course in Central London. This is a stand alone course to give you a basic introduction to the Hindi language.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00 - French beginners at a gentle pace: module 1Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Do you want to start learning French but worried that you might not be able to keep up? Our French at a gentle pace courses are designed to cover the same material as our standard French courses, 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 - French beginners: module 2 Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pascale VuittenezLearn French on this lively interactive course for near beginners. The course will be taught in French with an emphasis on developing your speaking and listening skills.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00 - Writing for business Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Deborah MartinMasterclass sessions packed with ways to develop an advanced skillset, to write persuasive and informative emails, reports and proposals. Learn about the elements of language, style and structure that you need to write to a sophisticated level in the workplace.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00 - Pilates beginners Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Eleanor ShearnDiscover the difference Pilates can make to your life. Develop your core control, tone muscles and improve strength and posture. Ideal if you are new to Pilates or if you want to work at a more gentle level.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £125.00 - “Opening up” China on Screen: Chinese Cinema from Mao to Xi JinpingCourse start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
This 6-week online course will take learners on China’s “reform and opening up” journey,
from the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1978, to the election of Xi Jinping in 2013.
“Opening up” involved a series of economic and societal reforms to rebuild the country after
the Cultural Revolution, and each session will explore China’s cinematic output from the late
1970s until the 2000s, and map this against the nation’s local and global progression into the
modern super-power that it is today.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Spanish beginners: module 3Course start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
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 7 and 9 of Nos Vemos Hoy 1 (Publisher: Difusión)
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 - Biblical Hebrew 1: module 1 Course start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jordan DyckLearn the basic grammatical structures for reading and translating Biblical Hebrew. Also suitable for those who have a rusty knowledge of the language.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Writing for children Course start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Neil ArkseyAlways wanted to write a children's book? This practical course will develop your ability to write for different age groups and genres of contemporary children's fiction.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £130.00
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