Re: [london-hack-space] Beginners Language classes?

[Russ Garrett]

On 8 July 2010 16:16, Nandish Bhatt <nandis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy folks
> Last year I remember Mitch telling me that Noisebridge ran Language classes
> that were pretty popular
> Was wondering if anyone was interested in a beginners Spanish class?

If you can get enough interest, I think this is a great idea to get
people using the space. (I probably wouldn't turn up because I just
don't have the time.)

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Russ Garrett
ru...@garrett.co.uk

[Ben Evans]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Nandish Bhatt <nandis...@gmail.com> wrote:

Last year I remember Mitch telling me that Noisebridge ran Language classes that were pretty popular

Was wondering if anyone was interested in a beginners Spanish class?

[delurk]

Are you proposing to run one? If so, yes, me at least. 

Ben

[Ciarán Mooney]

Hi,

Count me as interested. Never been able to learn enough of any
language to hold a conversation, but never too late to start.

Ciarán

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

I would be interested in Spanish.

K

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Nandish Bhatt <nandis...@gmail.com> wrote:

Howdy folks

Last year I remember Mitch telling me that Noisebridge ran Language classes that were pretty popular

Was wondering if anyone was interested in a beginners Spanish class?

Nandish

[M]

I hate how I can never find the time to get involved here, Spanish is something that I hope to learn some day and would definitely be interested in these classes but will I ever find time? I would also enjoy sharing what I know of British Sign Language, just finished my BSL Level 2 a couple of weeks ago...

Regards,

Morris.

[Ben Evans]

I vote yes - if there's interest, and we find ourselves wanting more expertise than can easily be provided by the group, then we can think about what to do next.

Post some sample dates and let's see who can make them.

Ben

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Nandish Bhatt <nandis...@gmail.com> wrote:

my intention was too see if we can pool together enough folks to get a
private teacher in, but...

my Spanish is supposedly approaching intermediate

I would be willing to try giving a couple of classes, then we could
see how it works

maybe the first on language acquisition, self directed study and note
taking -- all of which is much harder to do effectively that you
remember and which most of the language schools never tell you about

still interested? we can fix a date.

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nandis...@gmail.com
07534222273

[Ciarán Mooney]

Hi,

I should have put 2+2 together eariler but I know a professional
teacher we may be able to get in to teach Spanish and Italian.

She is an ex-housemate of mine, and is a very nice woman. She has just
finished a PGCE course and is looking for full-time work, but I think
she *may* do some adult teaching for extra cash.

She is Italian, and can teach French and Spanish also. Her Spanish is
only up to GCSE, but I'm sure it would be a start for most of us!

I've created a wiki page,
http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Beginners_Language_classes

We need to figure out how much we are willing to pay each, how many
people want to do it, and when.

My thoughts are £5-10 each, for a 60-90 mins tuition. If say 10 of us
are doing it, then that could be £50-100, with half going to the
hackspace, and half going to the teacher.

Time-wise, I'd prefer an evening. Tuesday's anyone?

Ciarán