Spanish Lessons in Yorkshire

Lingua Genesis Ltd, South and West Yorkshire:
Based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Northern England, Lingua Genesis is a freelance and mobile language school offering Spanish Courses in Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham, Wakefield and Doncaster, as well as the West Yorkshire areas of Huddersfield and Leeds. The company provides adult language classes and business language courses, in person and online. We also offer children´s Spanish programmes as well as tuition in French, German, Italian and English. We provide low rates, small group or family learning settings, as well as daytime or evening classes from beginner to advanced level. Where one-to-one and small group learning is concerned, the company visits the client's home. Independent learning resources which have been created by Lingua Genesis are made available to learners free of charge and the non-traditional and learner effective approaches used in the teaching guarantee accelerated linguistic proficiency within just a very short space of time.

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- Spanish Courses for all levels beginners to advanced
- General Spanish
- Intensive Spanish
- Business Spanish
- Exam Preparation
- Holiday Spanish
- Day and Evening Classes
- Classroom Learning and Online Courses
- Group Lessons
- Individual Tuition

We also offer
- Children´s Spanish Clubs
- Spanish for GSCEs and A levels
- French, German, Italian and English Programmes

Lingua Genesis embraces a refreshed, brand new and extremely effective approach to a huge gamut of language learner needs, having originally been conceived in October 2004. It was founded in response to general disillusionment among students with the situation of particular language learning courses and approaches.

Established as a business in November 2008, Lingua Genesis has continued, over time, to promote and raise levels of interest in modern foreign languages in Yorkshire and the rest of the UK - from every generation! We have campaigned for the right for individuals within every age group to learn at an appropriate and preferred level, without being obliged to sit an examination, and devise as many different teaching aids and methods which are perfectly suited to the abilities of anyone who is keen to become linguistically proficient within a given time frame.

“To promote and implement into all areas of foreign language learning an ever increasing number of innovative, unconventional, yet effective strategies and resources which enable young children, teenagers and adults from around the world to build their knowledge and confidence in this subject area”

The research undertaken by Lingua Genesis shows that it is much easier to pick up a foreign language if you start as a child, which is why the majority of paper-based resources created by Lingua Genesis are aimed primarily at strongly encouraging and closely integrating parental involvement in each child’s language learning process, on the basis of innovative and differentiated learning exercises.

Many adults have perhaps tended to associate old age and some contemporary forms of traditional language teaching in schools as ineffective, unpopular, tedious and lacking in innovation. It may be argued this was one of the reasons which induced New Labour to take the decision in 2005 to make the learning of a foreign language no longer compulsory in the secondary education sector. In any case, Lingua Genesis welcomes the government initiative to make the learning of at least one modern foreign language obligatory in our primary schools by 2011.

Amongst the activities which students have regarded as being enjoyable and beneficial over the last few years, in terms of improving their knowledge of the language, include:

* Emphasis on the development of spoken skills by inviting students to verbally construct full sentences

* Use of colour-coding to draw attention to the sentence structure of phrases used in general conversation, as well as rules of pronunciation and identical endings to set word combinations (e.g. 'estas personas')

* Focus on predictable Spanish rules of pronunciation, by drawing comparisons with the ways in which certain combinations of letters are pronounced in English

* Stressing the requirement for intonation as an equally important means of developing confidence with the spoken language.

* Inclusion of listening exercises featuring dialogues between native speakers which embrace a number of comprehension tasks dealing with, amongst other things, sentence breakdown and the development of grammatically accurate forms of language. These also include a cohesive amalgation between examples of spoken language and their written counterparts.

* Use of specific memory aids, such as acronyms, abbreviations, intonation, examples of language in context, cognates, synonyms and frequently heard word combinations, as a means of enabling students to absorb and recall specific vocabulary and phrases. These could either be short verbal interchanges or entail the enactment of free-flowing and spontaneous role-plays which take place in a number of different circumstances

* Invitation to students to speak freely about any hobbies, activities, recent life episodes, personal opinions or issues which are meaningful to them, with available instant feedback from the course tutor on the criteria of intonation, pronunciation and grammatical accuracy