Only a couple of weeks to go before the start of our language courses, but still time to use some more tips on learning a language while on holiday: 1.)Listening Movies – watch movies in your language (with foreign language subtitles if possible). TV – watch the news in the language you’re learning. Don’t panic if you don’t understand…
How to practise speaking a language
We have all been in that desperate situation, stood at the ticket office in a foreign train station, trying to explain where you want to go, for how long and how many of you there are. We gesticulate, pull weird faces, mix a few foreign words in with our English and then resort to simply…
What do we get up to at HS Language Services? Interview with our summer intern.
Why HS Language Services? I wrote to HS Language Services because I wanted to experience the sort of career that skills in languages could lead to. Being one of the only companies in Lincoln that was established (by that I mean bigger than one person translating from home) it was the obvious choice. Having looked…
International Trade and the World of Sport
Today marks the one year ‘pre-anniversary’ of the London 2012 Olympics. It seems rather appropriate (and well designed) that I spent today at a conference that addressed both International Trade and the World of Sport at Loughborough University.
Learning Tips for the Summer!
To reach a strong level of fluency in a language, you need to constantly be improving your skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking). During the summer, you could work on these skills in a variety of ways in which you will ENJOY yourself learning based on your personal interests and goals. Here’s the first of a…
My week at HS Language Services, by Claudia.
For her working experience Claudia spent a week with us. We asked her to write a little summary about her experience. My week at HS Language Services My past week of work experience at HS Language Services has been really interesting. I’ve been organising flyer printing, observing (and helping, with my very basic French) some…
Le 14 juillet
Le 14 juillet Bastille Day is the French National Day which is celebrated on 14 July of each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of thestorming of the Bastille on 14 July…
Family Learning Day
Saturday saw Ruth and Helen at Caythorpe village Primary School for our Spanish family learning day. The event ran from 10am to 1pm and was attended by 3 families with ages from 3 to 40. First of all, we did introductions and learnt some basic Spanish greetings and numbers. We had a break after an…
A budget for International Trade?
In January of this year, David Cameron expressed that economic recovery would be export led, and the government’s Plan for Growth, launched at Budget, supports this by acknowledging that: “Sustainable growth requires a rebalancing of the UK economy away from a reliance on a narrow range of sectors and regions, to one built on investment…
French Day
Samedi 5 mars s’est déroulée la journée française, où pendant 6 heures la seule langue parlée était le français. Après un introduction ludique, nous avons discuté des clichés et stéréotypes sur les français et les anglais et des différences et incompréhensions entre les deux pays. Puis nous avons écouté une chanson de Yannick Noah et…
