Brush up on your languages for your holidays

Holiday-makers of all ages are being offered the perfect chance to finesse their French, German and Italian in advance of their summer break, with fun and friendly language courses.

Frenchwithout Fears is being held at Farncombe Courses, near Broadway, from Friday 5 April to Sunday 7 April.  A range of light hearted activities will help boost confidence and teach new vocabulary and skills throughout the residential course.

Italianfor Beginners is also being held at Farncombe in the last weekend in May, while Get by in German is being hosted a month later, at the end of June.

Mandy Morrison, programme manager at Farncombe Courses, said: “Whether you last spoke a foreign language years ago at school or you’re a little more advanced, these course are great fun and always very popular.

“It doesn’t promise fluency in a weekend but it will build your confidence and move you forwards, whatever your starting point.”

Last chance to book for Le Week-End Francais !

A weekend with a group of Francophiles, keen to discuss in French not only what is happening in France today, but also to explore the political, literary and artistic importance of the inter-war years,1918-1939, our focal point for this weekend. This will be introduced and developed by your tutor and visiting speaker.There is no set reading list,but you may find it helpful to have done some purely optional background reading before the course.Some suggestions will gladly be sent to you on request.

There will be an opportunity for you to tell us in a short presentation (max 5 mins) what interests you specially about this period,or more generally what French books, films etc you may have seen or read recently.

Course takes place with Celia Weber at Farncombe 20-22 May 2011 - enquire online or call 033 3456 8580.

Le Week-End Francais at Farncombe Estate - click here for further details