by Nathalie Danon | Sep 11, 2025 | Learn a Language
Parents and teachers love to recommend “immersion” for learning a language. Classes, apps, series in the original version… and, at the end of the list, the famous “language stay abroad.” But recently I saw a school article that summed it up like this: “Send your child...
by Nathalie Danon | May 8, 2025 | Learn a Language
This year marks 25 years since I moved to the UK — and 26.5 years of my life spent outside of France. That’s more than half my life. And one thing I’ve always held onto with pride is my English accent. At 19, when I returned from the US, people would ask me where I...
by Nathalie Danon | May 1, 2025 | Learn a Language
Today, I had a truly inspiring conversation with a lady who is considering joining one of our immersive language experiences in Florence with her husband next year. She’s been learning Italian for the past three years through more traditional channels and now feels...
by Nathalie Danon | Apr 16, 2025 | Learn a Language
If I had £10 every time someone walked into the Academy and, almost sheepishly, said: “You’re not going to like this… but I’ve been learning French/Spanish/Italian on Duolingo…”, I’d be a millionaire by now. Scratch that—probably a multimillionaire!...
by Nathalie Danon | May 15, 2018 | Bilingualism in Children, Latest News, Learn a Language
This year, we will celebrate ten years of coaching learners of all ages. Of the record 5.7 million small businesses operating in the UK today, less than half will survive beyond five years, let alone ten, yet we continue to go from strength to strength. Something we...
by Nathalie Danon | Jun 17, 2017 | Benefiting Business, Latest News, Learn a Language
When it comes to spending a week on the beach in Spain, it might be that a combination of English, holding a certain number of fingers aloft and, of course, pointing will suffice and most of us could manage a “por favour” when ordering food or drink. However, as I...
