Language evening classes in London - any recommendations?

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Language evening classes in London - any recommendations?

I'm currently weighing up London South Bank, Westminster or UCL

Morley college (near Elephant and Castle) has lots, haven't tried there myself but its a lively interesting place. Did Cantonese at Westminster years ago - was good. What language do you want to learn?

I am going to do Swedish

I looked at Morley but the classes start too early

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I did Albanian at UCL a few years ago - it was ok. Have heard good things about Westminster, don't know about South Bank. I guess it would depend on what suits you re timings, location, etc.

Timings are similar

UCL works out to about £11 per hour vs £4-£6.50 at the others

Do you know anything about the class sizes, are they smaller at UCL or are they just more expensive because it's UCL?

TBH I reckon a language class is pretty much what you make of it so more expensive def isn't necessarily better.

UCL say max 12, London South Bank 15
UCL will do extra stuff like mail you the class notes etc if you miss a class

Hmmm, I don't think the class notes is a big deal. You could just get them from the next class or from another student in the meantime or if you're going to a text book then you could read up on it yourself.

Do you really not have a preference about the location in terms of convenience for work/home?

Buy a language course or rent it from the library - I learnt more Italian from my Linguaphone course than I did schlepping off to a 2-hour class every week. Probably as my teacher taught us one phrase then had everyone in the class repeat it one by one. By the time it got to me, I was miles away . The BBC does language courses on it's website as well.

South Bank involves Elephant & Castle which is not an area I generally choose to walk about in so that is a bit offputting

If UCL was the same price as everywhere else then I would choose them

Hi,
I did my degrees at UCL, great place. They have a fab Scandinavian Studies department, would not hesitate to book a course there.

Why Swedish?

If you just want any Scandinavian language, I could offer Norwegian conversation, lol...

I'm impressed bookwormtailmum - I could never have learnt my Russian from a Linguaphone course. My head would have exploded. It nearly did even with our very lovely and gentle teacher!

I think Russian is probably a lot harder than Italian to learn though. I was also dating an Italian man at the time . I attempted to learn a few words of Croat from a similar course earlier this year but it just sounded like throat-clearing to me .

I did a year of Italian at a local authority night class and it was a bit easier. I liked the social aspects of the course, I met people to practice with, one of whom I still count as a friend.

x-posts BWTM - we already have CDs and books
I need a class so I'll get time for study without the kids

Starry - I am married to a Swede

Good luck with that, I joyfully embarked on Polish for beginners for the very same reason.

The Albanian class I did was full of women married or engaged to Albanians or Kosovar Albanians (except me!), they all thought I was a right weirdo for wanting to learn the language for any other reason .

GG - what's wrong with learning a language for pure interest? .

Dunno! That's exactly why I was there!!