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Cactus Opinion: A Taste of German in Berlin
Posted by Sarah under Cactus Staff Opinion
Alex Wolfson, Language Travel Advisor for Cactus Language, gives us his thoughts on the language school and city of Berlin, Germany (Feb 07)
If you want to take a language holiday in a vibrant, buzzing city and you are interested in the 20th century, Berlin is for you.
Where do you start with such an important city? [...]
Tags:Berlin, German, German course, Germany
Learning German in Brighton - week 6
Posted by tristan under German, Language Courses UK
Back in the class and back to the books. Seems last week they covered buildings and shops and talking about things when you are out in the street. We are now at Lektion drei, Übung dreizen or Chapter 3, Section 13. We have covered talking about what job someone does and listening to a conversation, [...]
Tags:brighton, evening class, German, languagecoursesuk
Cactus clients get creative in writing competition…
Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, French, German, Italian, Learning a language, Spanish
Cactus’ new year challenge for its clients was to get the creative juices flowing! We asked our clients to write a brief piece about why they would like to take a language course in one of five selected locations (Sorrento, Madrid, Nice, Berlin or Rabat), the winner of each category to be rewarded with a free 1-week language course [...]
Tags:Arabic, Berlin, course, French, German, Italian, language, Madrid, Nice, Rabat, Sorrento, Spanish
Why it’s worth learning just the basics of a language
Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Learning a language
Tedious verb tables, repetitive text-book exercises with Xavier et Nicole, embarrassing mistakes in front of your mates on a day-trip to Boulogne…the average Brit does not have fond memories of learning a language at school, and picking one up many years later can seem hugely daunting. You’re never going to be fluent, so what’s the [...]
Learning German, valentines in the way - week 5
Posted by tristan under Language Courses UK
This week I had planned to be all caught up and in the class, but I had to take the week off for a valentines dinner with my girlfriend. So I traded he that she would have to do a lesson of practice with me at the weekend.
Back at it next week, promise.
Learning German - week 4
Posted by tristan under Language Courses UK
Back in the class room this week. We covered some group talking and trying to say everything we had learned questions and answers.
We also worked through the next chapter and watched a video. This was the second part from last week that I missed. A guy had started a new job and needed to meet [...]
In Germany instead of in a lesson - week 3
Posted by tristan under Language Courses UK
This week I was in Germany near Köln/Cologne so I missed my German lesson. I think having to speak a bit of German every day makes up for it though
I’m quite enjoying my Cactus Language 10 week evening course though, the people are very warm and friendly and will look forward to next [...]
Tags:evening course, German, language
Learning german - week 2
Posted by tristan under Language Courses UK
Made it too my second week of german on wednesday, with some slightly cheaper parking this week.
This week we were covering the first module from the book. (which is a very good colour one) we looked at it for home work the first week, and now must cover it again. Then we moved on to [...]
Tags:evening class, German, language course
Starting my evening course - week 1
Posted by tristan under Language Courses UK
I have started on the German Beginners course at the Cactus Brighton School. I know quite a few words and small phrases in German but need to improve so I can have a full conversation and teach our son.
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