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How to Learn a Language
How to Learn a Language Learning a new language can seem a daunting task – involving a fair amount of time, dedication and brain gymnastics. However, there are a number of key pieces of advice that can make your language learning journey both...
What to Expect on your Cactus Evening Language Course
What to Expect on your Cactus Evening Language Course 1. Student participation Your teacher will plan and organise classroom activities that will require your involvement and participation. Group work, pair work, role plays, dialogues, and games are...
Top 5 Tips for Evening Language Course Success
Our top 5 tips for ultimate success on your evening language course 1. Use a Vocab/Grammar Notebook (online or an old-fashioned paper one) Get yourself a decent notebook in which you can list all new vocabulary, collocations and grammar structures....
Who Teaches the Cactus Evening Language Courses?
Language Course Teachers Cactus works with a large number of language teachers across the world, and specifically for our evening language classes, in the UK. Many of our teachers have been teaching with Cactus for years and our Operations and...
Free One-to-One Skype Lessons
Are you learning Spanish and still not sure about the difference between ‘por’ and ‘para’? Or maybe you’re studying French and can’t quite work out why the word order seems to be back to front? If you’re a German student you might be...
Should I take a 5 week course or a 10 week course?
It’s the question you’ve been asking yourself all week: What’s the difference between a 10 – week course and a 5 – week course? Do the 5 and 10-week courses have the same total amount of hours? Yes they do. Both courses have a total of 20...
7 Ways to Fast Track Language Learning
Get better faster with this key advice 1. Use a notebook specifically for your language course Organise the content by grammar, vocabulary and expressions. Try and write down chunks of language that you can use – and identify the context, rather...
Which Language Should I Learn?
So… You’ve decided that you want to learn a language. But the big question is: which is the best language to learn? Maybe you feel you should have a go at reviving that GCSE level French? Or take up German, because your boss speaks it? Or...
How Much Language Can you Learn in One Year?
The controversial article ‘6 harsh truths that will make you a better person’ asserts that gaining a skill will make you more useful, more valuable, more successful and generally happier. “I want you to purely focus on giving yourself a skill...
6 Good Reasons to Start the New Year with an Evening Language Course
Whether you want to improve your job prospects, communicate with your partner’s family, or get prepared for travels and adventure in 2018, now is the time to take a language course. And if you book with Cactus before 12th January using the code...
Question Time with Angela Puddu
Interview with Cactus Teacher: Italian teacher Angela Puddu takes time to speak to Cactus about her love of teaching and her Cactus students. You’ve been teaching for 30 years, what is it about teaching that keeps you motivated? I started to teach...