Interactive Language Learning And Practice Circle

🥨 Berlin German: Slang & Nightlife – Live Class for Complete Beginners

A live one-hour German class on Zoom for complete beginners. Chat in casual du-German, understand Berlin slang, shop at a Späti and get around at night.

In the hour, you'll learn to:

• Talk politely at a club door and get around on the U-Bahn
• Greet people the Berlin way and chat using informal du
• Use common slang, and know when it is too informal
• Buy drinks and snacks at a Späti and pay

You repeat together with the whole class (nobody is singled out), then practise in small breakout rooms of 2 or 3. Afterwards your phrase sheet with a pronunciation guide stays in your account.

At most 12 people. Camera optional, nothing recorded, so feel free to get things wrong.

RSVP here, then register through the link below to book your place.

🗼 French Slang: Sound Less Like a Textbook – Live on Zoom

No French needed: this is a live beginner class on Zoom, explained in English. Understand how French people really talk, and use a handful of casual words and fillers in the right places.

In the hour, you'll learn to:

• Speak more naturally by dropping "ne" and using "on" for "we"
• Recognise the spoken shortcuts: chais pas, chuis, t'es, y'a
• Understand basic verlan: meuf, relou, ouf, chelou, vénère, teuf
• Use fillers like bah, du coup, genre and en fait in a sentence

You repeat together with the whole class (nobody is singled out), then practise in small breakout rooms of 2 or 3. Afterwards your phrase sheet with a pronunciation guide stays in your account.

Small group, friendly and practical. Camera optional, nothing recorded.

RSVP here, then register through the link below to book your place.

💃 Telenovela Spanish: Drama, Love & Betrayal: A Live Beginner Class

No Spanish needed: this is a live beginner class on Zoom, explained in English. Gasp, accuse, confess and declare your love in Spanish, then act out your own telenovela scene.

In the hour, you'll learn to:

• Say how you feel: angry, jealous, devastated, in love
• Perform a short original scene in Spanish with other students
• Declare love, and hate, in a few dramatic lines
• Accuse, deny and refuse to forgive like a telenovela villain

You repeat together with the whole class (nobody is singled out), then practise in small breakout rooms of 2 or 3. Afterwards your phrase sheet with a pronunciation guide stays in your account.

At most 12 people. Camera optional, nothing recorded, so feel free to get things wrong.

Register through the link below to book your place in the live class.

🗾 Flirting in Japanese: Polite, Charming and Respectful – Live Class for Complete Beginners

No Japanese needed: this is a live beginner class on Zoom, explained in English. Start a friendly conversation, give a compliment, ask someone out and say or hear no gracefully, in polite Japanese.

In the hour, you'll learn to:

• Say no politely, recognise an indirect no, and take no gracefully
• Start a polite conversation and ask about someone's hobbies
• Give natural compliments and answer one modestly
• Swap LINE contacts and send a friendly follow-up
• Invite someone out with the soft 〜ませんか? form

Every phrase comes with romaji, so you don't need to read Japanese yet.

You repeat together with the whole class (nobody is singled out), then practise in small breakout rooms of 2 or 3. Afterwards your phrase sheet with a pronunciation guide stays in your account.

At most 12 people. Camera optional, nothing recorded, so feel free to get things wrong.

RSVP here, then register through the link below to book your place.