language for fun
Newcastle-Under-Lyme
Join one of our Lovely, lively language classes for adults. We have 500 classes
in the UK, just waiting for you to learn French, Spanish or Italian for fun!At
the time, I was teaching in an FE college, and in a Primary School and studying
for a PGCE in adult education. I quickly realised that many of the games and
interactive techniques that the children enjoyed could be adapted for adult
pupils. I decided to trial a language course for adults where the focus was on
fun and conversation, rather than results and written work. So in 2007 I created
French for Fun and held my first classes in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Through trial
and error, I came up with a regular weekly format that worked and incorporated
the learning theory from my PGCE. The classes are now built around a series of
conversations, so everyone gets up and talks in every lesson at the same time
(no trembling in front of the class). In January 2010, after enrolling our 60th
student, I decided to see if French for Fun worked with other languages. In
March 2010, Sally and Alejandra started to translate the programme in to Spanish
with great success and we have also finished the Italian translation. I also
started to offer licences to other teachers, training them to use my materials
and supporting them to set up their own language teaching business. We now have
100 teachers dotted around the country and we’re training more all the time, so
there will be a class coming to somewhere near you soon. Yippee! If you know
anyone who would like to get involved in the next chapter of this story, either
as a learner, a teacher, or to translate the programme in to their language, get
in touch!
