Ready to look over the hedge?
What happens when you leave your familiar, usual, comfort zone? Come along and you will find out: nothing to fear anyway, no stress or anxiety, just joy of learning!
English Courses
Curiosity? What is?
Do you remember Mr Harry Wormwood? And Miss Agatha Trunchbull? Mr Harry Wormwood is a car salesman, Matilda’s father, in the story of “Matilda” by Roald Dahl. One evening Mr Wormwood abruptly takes the book out of Matilda’s hands and forces her to watch TV with the rest of the family in order to be
“We are all connected”
On Friday morning we saw Gabriele and Chiara drawing something on the wall of the patio. Students and teachers were gathering for the last day of the summer school. As usual there were chats, laughs, mugs of tea and cups of coffee while everyone was still waking up. Then, some of us noticed that there
“The Isle of Slaves” (Empathy 2)
The Isle of Slaves”, set in a pastoral environment in the 17th century, is really far away from the complexity of our time. However, after watching it, my mind couldn’t avoid to fly over the times and try to find out what challenges are awaiting us in the present.
Do I need creativity to learn English?
Do I need creativity to learn English? Good question, easy answer: no, you don’t need to be creative to learn English. You need creativity for your life.
It is believed that creativity belongs to artists, poets, musicians. And ladies!
The colours on the palette before the painter, the naked stone before the sculptor, the musical notes in the ear of a composer could
How much English can I learn in a short time?
“It depends who is doing what”, I should say. Timothy Doner is a young man now: 18-years-old, he lives in New York and mastered himself 23 languages, each one in just a few weeks. Cardinal Mezzofanti -who lived two hundred years ago in Italy- learnt and spoke fluently 38 languages without travelling out of Italy.
"The Other Language" or learning from babies
Part 1 “Three days after I was born, as I lay in my silken cradle, gazing with astonishment dismay on the new world round about me, my mother spoke to the wet-nurse, saying: ‘How is my child?’ And the wet-nurse answered: ‘He does well, Madame, I have feed him three times; and never before have
If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing
A popular Zimbabwean proverb says ‘If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing!‘: this is now the motto of “Voices of Lecale“, a community folk choir based in the historic town of Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. “The choir was formed in May 2007 and developed out of The Singers’ Circle at
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