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  1. Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00
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  3. Modern Greek beginners: module 3
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    Course start date:  Thu 10 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Maria Contos
    Continue to speak Modern Greek in the heart of London on this lively classroom-based course.



    Develop your speaking and listening skills on this communicative course, which emphasises the practical use of the language. Suitable if you have completed Greek beginners: module 2 or equivalent (about 30 hrs of learning).
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  4. Spanish beginners: module 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 22 Jan 2026 (and 19 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  María Isalt

    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 1-3 of Nos Vemos Hoy 1 Compacto; publisher: Campus Difusión (please see the relevant section for the ISBN)
    Please do not buy the book until after the first class as if you transfer to another level, you may use a different book.

    For details about blended courses dates and their mode of delivery, please click here or go to the How will I be taught? section below. 

    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00
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  5. Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £174.00
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  6. Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £167.00
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  7. Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £174.00
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  8. Lipreading and managing hearing loss: beginners module 2
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    Course start date:  Wed 17 Sep 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Christine Hathway
    This class is suitable for if you have completed module 1 or have completed the one term introduction to lipreading class or have attended a lipreading class at any level in the past, but want to go back to basics. You will develop your lipreading and fingerspelling skills and build your confidence.







    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 £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £85.00
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  9. Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00
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  10. Voice technique: beginners
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    Course start date:  Thu 18 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Kate Montague
    Improve the quality and clarity of your voice through posture, breath capacity and control, articulation, forward placement and pitch. For anyone who wants to make the most of their voice. This course will be taught in the college.
    Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £132.00
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  11. Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00
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  12. German 3 consolidation
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Tatjana Pisarski
    . Learn German in the heart of London. Come and improve your upper-intermediate German. Suitable if you have studied the language for at least four years (1.5 hours per week) or 2 years (3 hours per week). Based on Aspekte NEU B1+, 2. Teil







    You might be interested in joining German intermediate taster https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/german-intermediate-taster/lgt4-2324 before this course.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  13. Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00
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  14. Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00
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  15. An Introduction to Japanese Crime Fiction
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    Course start date:  Thu 25 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Christine Hawkins

    This course explores the development of the crime fiction genre in Japan from 1920s to the present. We begin with some historical context on how/why the genre developed in Japan when it did. The texts covered include The two-sen copper coin by Taro Hirai(1923),  Koga Sabura’s The Spider (1930), and the following novels - Seishi Yokomizo’s The Honjin Murders (1946), Seicho Matsumoto’s, Point Zero (1957), Soji Shimada’s, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (1981), and Malice (1996) by Keigo Higashino.

     

    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00
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