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The Spanish Institute is having its official launch on Friday April 25. The event starts at 6pm and guests will be invited to enjoy Spanish wine and tapas in its premises at 58 Dominick Street.

Practical classes in beginning Spanish will start again next week at the Language Institute in the Granary Learning Centre. These 12-week courses are designed to give students the words and phrases they will need to visit Spain or Latin America with ease and confidence.

Headstart Children’s Language School was co-founded by Michelle Collins and Christina Rock, who both are highly qualified language teaching tutors. The children’s language classes are held at the Parish Centre, Castlebar, and tutors Michelle and Christina offer the following advice:

Spanish, German, Italian, and Chinese classes are all recommencing this month at the Language Institute in the Granary Learning Centre. Arabic is also back while Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, and Japanese are also on offer. For those learning English the centre will also offer its successful Cambridge exam preparation classes for the FCE and CAE exams in March.

Bridge Mills Galway Language Centre, a Department of Education-recognised training institute now in its 25th year of business, has just become a Cambridge examination testing centre offering FCE, CAE, and CPE testing facilities as well as a range of other Cambridge exams. Students can now complete their Cambridge examination preparation courses at the centre on a full-time basis in the morning or part-time in the evening and take their exam at the centre throughout the year.

The decision to abolish teaching foreign languages in primary school is “shows a disregard for the importance of language teaching at a young age and a short-sightedness about the future needs of this country”.

In figures released this week (October 14) it was revealed that three in four Westmeath career coaching graduates land a job or start their own business “within weeks of graduation”, said Miriam Magner-Flynn of Career Decisions Ireland, at the recent graduation of Ireland’s first Diploma in Career Coaching.

The Baboró International Arts Festival for Children opens this Sunday with Priceless, an outdoor street party for children and families along Quay Street from 2pm to 5pm.

The Language Institute at the Granary Learning Centre will run its foreign language teaching course for a third time beginning in February. This course is for people who wish to teach a language outside the public school system, in a commercial language school, by giving grinds, or by taking private students. The course is based on the universal principles of language teaching and is for those thinking of teaching Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, or any other language.

NUI Galway will host it’s first International Language Conference entitled Translation, Technology and Autonomy in Language Teaching and Learning on 10 to 11 December 2010.