Cactus Language Blog

Cactus Opinion: London (by Chris Moore)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus Staff Opinion, English, Language Courses UK

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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Tags:Camden, london

Cactus Opinion: London (by Sarah Gooding)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus Staff Opinion, English, Language Courses UK

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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Tags:English, london

Cactus Opinion: London (by Hayley Gee)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus Staff Opinion, English, Language Courses UK

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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Tags:courses, English, london

Cactus Opinion: London (by Richard Bradford)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus Staff Opinion, English, Language Courses UK

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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Tags:course, English, language learning, london, UK

Cactus Opinion: London (by Katie Bann)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus Staff Opinion, English, Language Courses UK

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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Cactus Opinion: London (by Peter Rodway)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus Staff Opinion, English, Language Courses UK

‘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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Cactus Opinion: London (by Germaine Broadbent)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus Staff Opinion, English, Language Courses UK

Germaine Broadbent, Director of Sales, gives us her thoughts on London
London, steeped in history with a Queen whose family have lived there since the 1600s. Although it is often the West End, Soho, pubs, clubs, shops and traffic that hit the senses hard, possibly it is the contrasts of this city that draw in the [...]

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Tags:Covent Garden, English, london, soho, Trafalgar Square, West End

Girls Aloud Can’t Speak French

Posted by Lucy under Language Courses UK

And neither can I! Which is why I’m going to bite the bullet and get myself signed-up to an evening French course in Brighton. It’s been a long while since I studied the language at GCSE and I’ve really wanted to pick it up again. After travelling around France last summer on holiday, [...]

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Tags:French lessons, Girls Aloud

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, [...]

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Tags:brighton, evening class, German, languagecoursesuk

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.

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Tags:class, evening, German