San Sebastian – Live

I jump into the kitchen and shout to my housemates ‘San Sebastian what do you think of?!’ and their first response is ‘surfistas!’…and they’re exactly right…the surfers are what this beautiful city is famous for.

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Apple Language Courses around the world

Apple Language Courses offers full-immersion language lessons with accommodation all throughout the world!

It’s not easy showing every location together in one place, but we’ve attempted it with the interactive map below.

You can learn:

• Spanish in Spain or Latin America
• French in France, Canada or the Caribbean
• German in Germany, Austria or Switzerland
• Italian in Italy Read more…

Language Show Live 2016

Calling all language enthusiasts, Londoners, students and teachers!

The Language Show Live in London has come to a close for 2016 and we had another successful and enjoyable time this year.

We met many lovely language enthusiasts at our stand (602) – which was right behind ‘The Piazza’ – the heart of the show – with many fun events happening throughout the long weekend.

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Video guide to Venice, Italy

Famous, infamous, and much visited – Venice welcomes 20 million visitors every year. Many are day-trippers, but those that stay for at least one week are rewarded with new discoveries every day. Few cities have been dreamt about, discussed or resonate as much with tourists as Venice. This historic city, one of the world’s most picturesque, proudly lies on the largest island of the Venetian Lagoon. Venice has its fair share of political and environmental problems, but modern day commerce has done nothing to distract from its magic.

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Video guide to Prague, Czech Republic

You have no doubt heard that Prague is worth seeing. If you are not sure how to imagine the Czech capital then take a minute to watch this video! It also serves as a great reminder of the fascinating sights around the city. These images really succeed in capturing the beauty of Prague in a nutshell!

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Some of our favourite language learning locations

The staff at Apple Language Courses give reasons below for some of their favourite language learning destinations!

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Two traditional French recipes for Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday)!

Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday) is originally a Catholic celebration, a moment of entertainment for all of us. It celebrates the end of the winter, which  is coming soon, by dressing up and eating sugary and fatty foods! It’s also a party day in many schools!

There are some carnivals throughout France, including Nantes, Mulhouse and Cherbourg.

The most famous carnivals in France are the Nice Carnival, the Annecy Carnival and the Dunkerque Carnival.

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Language Show Live 2015

Apple Language Courses attended the Language Show Live at the Olympia in London from Friday 16th until Sunday 18th October 2015.

We had a great time and hope to do it all again next year! Read on to see our stand and a few of our tweets from the show!

We packed our bags and the car on Thursday afternoon and travelled down to London to set up at stand 710…

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15 different languages for one MARVELous creature

The importance of understanding other languages needs no explanation, but even in the most extreme fictional universe language plays an important part for all characters and therefore needs careful consideration by all the writers and producers of major films.

For the majority of Marvel’s blockbuster 2014 film Gardians of the Galaxy one of the main characters, a sentient tree-like creature called Groot has just one line: “I AM GROOT”. This simple phrase for this now popular character has since become a famous pop-culture reference.

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Who attends our language courses?

One of the things that I love most about this job is the range of people we get to speak with. This morning I spoke with a 16 year old girl who wanted to take a summer course in France, and the next phone call was from an 80 year old gentleman who wants to take an Italian Club 50+ course in the autumn! We really do offer courses suitable for everyone!

Most of our students tend to be aged 20-30 years old, but this varies from location to location and also depends on the time of year (during the summer months the average age drops slightly).

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