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Holiday Survival Weekend Courses

Get ready for your holiday in just one weekend! Our accelerated Holiday Survival courses focus on practical language skills and local culture, helping you to pick up the basics and increase your confidence quickly, so you can make the most of your time abroad.

These courses are suitable for complete beginners only, without prior language skills. To refresh previous language skills, try one of our Refresher Weekend Courses.

You can follow up your Holiday Survival course with one of our other evening & part-time courses: Study one evening per week our 10-week Courses, two evenings per week with our 5-week Fast Track Courses or, if studying on the weekend suits you, on Saturday mornings with our 7-week Saturday Courses.

If you want to progress more quickly, you can cover the same syllabus in just 5 days with our 1-week Intensive Courses.

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  1. Arabic Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    Brighton (Central)    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 8 Jun, 15 Jun, 10 Aug £105

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  1. Chinese (Mandarin) Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    Brighton (Central)    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 8 Jun, 15 Jun, 13 Jul £105

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  1. Croatian Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    Brighton (Central)    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105

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  1. Czech Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 15 Jun £105

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  1. French Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    Brighton (Central)    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 7 Sep £105
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 8 Jun, 15 Jun, 13 Jul £105

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  1. German Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    Brighton (Central)    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 8 Jun, 15 Jun, 13 Jul £105

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  1. Greek Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 8 Jun £105

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  1. Hebrew Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105

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  1. Hindi Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    Brighton (Central)    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105

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  1. Italian Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    Brighton (Central)    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 15 Jun £105
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 8 Jun, 15 Jun, 13 Jul £105

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  1. Japanese Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105

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  1. Polish Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105

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  1. Portuguese (Brazilian) Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    Brighton (Central)    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 8 Jun, 15 Jun, 13 Jul £105

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  1. Russian Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    Brighton (Central)    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 8 Jun, 15 Jun, 13 Jul £105

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  1. Spanish Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    Brighton (Central)    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 8 Jun, 15 Jun, 13 Jul £105

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  1. Swedish Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend 8 Jun £105

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  1. Thai Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105

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  1. Turkish Courses

    Level Day Type Start Dates Price
    Beginner
    London Holborn-Russell Square    		 Sat+Sun 10:30am-4:30pm Holiday Survival Weekend £105

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Course Info

These courses not right for your business?
For tailor-made business courses visit our Tailor-made Business department and talk with our specialist business consultants to customise the right course for your staff. From cultural training to small groups in your offices, where every they are in the world.

These are group courses which acknowledge individual needs. The content is academically sound and will promote and lead towards long term aims with the language. All of our teachers are native speakers or have native-speaker fluency in the language they teach. The teaching will be communicative, personalised, fun and will engage and stretch the students. Although the emphasis will be on speaking and listening grammar will be included and taught in context. Our courses are monitored throughout, feedback gathered from students at the mid and end of each course (together with any direct contact) and acted upon by Cactus Language Training. More on course outlines

Please Note:
All courses listed here are Group Courses. If you need one-to-one tuition please go directly to Individual Courses >>

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