by Karen Chapple | Jan 28, 2020 | Latest News
On January 16th, VICI held a very special event which was all about 2 things: celebrating achievements and giving thanks. For anybody that wasn’t able to attend, I wanted to write and tell you all about it. One of the principal reasons for holding the event was to...
by Karen Chapple | Sep 17, 2019 | Latest News
Children are sponges – they learn things so quickly! Working in education, I hear this often. And it’s true that when exposed to the right environment, methods and materials children can learn at an impressive rate. But it’s simply not the case that children...
by Karen Chapple | Aug 2, 2019 | Latest News
From busuu to Babbel, language-learning apps are big business. DuoLingo has 300 million users, Babbelsigns up a million a year just in the US. I’ve been in the language industry for nearly 20 years and when language teaching apps began to catch on, I started to find...
by Karen Chapple | Jun 18, 2019 | Latest News
When asking “What did you do at school today?” it is a lucky parent who has never received the exasperating answer “I can’t remember” or even more galling, “Nothing.” The more you try to winkle out an answer from your child, the tighter lipped they become, and so...
by Karen Chapple | Feb 7, 2019 | Latest News
Yesterday I was interviewed by Rachel Paling on her monthly podcast for my views on language coaching and what it truly means. Rachel runs training programmes on language coaching and neurolinguistics all over the world so it was a great privilege to be asked to take...
by Karen Chapple | Oct 2, 2018 | Latest News
Our adult French students are ready for their language immersion programme on Monday! Eurostar to Paris then driving to Reims for a 5-day indulgent, ‘real life’, French experience, celebrating VICI’s 10th Anniversary! personal development language culture gastronomy...
