Sarah Gooding, Online Editor at Cactus, reports back from her Italian language course in Tropea (May 08)
Most people don’t know where Tropea is, and it would appear not many airlines do either. It took a lengthy slog to get to Stansted and several hours’ missed sleep to get the only flight leaving the UK for Lamezia Terme, Tropea’s […]
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Alex Wolfson reports back on our Cactus Language Evening in conjunction with Brighton Festival Fringe
I’m sitting at my desk with my hands shaking slightly and a slight pain in my temple after all the San Miguel I ended up drinking last night, but do not feel at all guilty about this because it was all down to the […]
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We’re aware as a company that we’re effectively sending lots of people away each year on language courses abroad. This is great culturally and developmentally, but it generally means that people are taking flights too, which has implications for CO2 emissions.
Within our offices here in Brighton, we do whatever we can to minimise our waste. […]
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Laura Harrison of Cactus TEFL gives us her thoughts on London
To a self-confessed country bumpkin like me, London had always seemed like a gigantic, alien and scary place. This image was no doubt exacerbated by schoolyard tales of city-dwelling elder siblings, whose witnessing of stabbings on the tube trains and muggings in the park had […]
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Chris Moore, Head of Cactus Language Training, remembers London when growing up
Life. Change and growth. Relapse and despair. Escape and return. My experience of London parallels the delights and traumas of adolescence, the drunken drift of my 20s, and the discovery of a more centred self thereafter. It’s always been a city to visit, never […]
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Sarah Gooding, Online Editor at Cactus, gets poetic about London
A place to work
A place to have fun
But little do we know
The truth about London
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Hayley Gee, Head of Cactus Language, gives us her thoughts on London
London is an exciting, vibrant and colourful city made so by its stunning architecture and colourful multiculturalism. Walking the historic streets of London you will come across every national of the globe and here a multitude of languages. I like the fact that everyone […]
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Richard Bradford, MD of Cactus UK, gives us his thoughts on language learning in London
Warm air hurtles down the endless tube system - carrying with it the stressed, harangued humans from A to B, like rats in a sewer after the rain.
A cocophony of taxis, buses and motorbikes, throbbing slowly through dirty streets. Cyclists weave […]
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How to use the London Underground: useful English phrases to learn before venturing underground, by Katie Bann of Language Courses UK (these phrases are real)
• Mind the Gap
“Please mind the gap when leaving the train. If you’re not leaving the train, there’s no need to mind the gap. It’s all right, you’re safe.”
• Stand clear of the […]
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‘London After Midnight - An Ode to Camden Town’, by Peter Rodway of Cactus Language Training
The front man of the rock group strides onto the stage through the lasers and smoke.
An image most of us have seen few times except this particular front man was nearly seven foot tall and had a double bass strapped […]
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