Learn a language with your loved one
Tuesday, 12th January 2010
Although many people choose to take up foreign language lessons on their own, there are also a good number of couples who embark on a course together.
Sometimes the decision to enrol is simply down to a desire to take up a new interest together, in order to enjoy a joint hobby and facilitate spending more time with each other. Other couples choose to learn a new language together because of joint travel plans, or hopes to permanently relocate, both of which require at least a basic knowledge of a foreign language.
Whatever the reason, taking an evening course as a couple has many advantages:
- It is good for your confidence when you start, and provides essential moral support for anyone who is particularly shy.
- It gives you someone to revise and practise with during your free time, meaning that you are likely to make good progress.
- It gives you a ready-made homework “buddy”, who can help you out if you get stuck!
- It provides you with great motivation to go to the lesson every week - even if you have had a bad day or are not feeling ‘in the mood’.
- For the more competitive couples among us, it breeds the desire to do better than your other half, thus inspiring to you work that little bit harder!
- Travelling to the course together and sharing textbooks will inevitably make the course cheaper than if you were studying on your own.
With courses available in so many different locations and languages, there is sure to be something that suits. Booking you and your loved one on to a course this Valentines Day is far more original than chocolates, more useful than flowers and moreover will earn you some serious brownie points…
Tags: couple, valentines day, progress, part-time evening course, italian, german, french, spanish
Posted by Laura Harrison under Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress,
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