Contributed by Sylvia Cossar, teacher at ILSC-San Francisco When our car engine is cold in the morning, we warm it up by letting it run, and before we go jogging or start a long hike, we warm up our bodies by stretching. In both cases, dismissing this important step can lead to less than optimum performance. …
English Through Yoga: One Of The Best Classes You’ll Ever Take
Contributed by Molly Jones, English Through Yoga Teacher, ILSC-San Francisco In my English through Yoga class I don’t assign homework. I don’t require a number of pages read per day, or even that they write me a polished essay of sorts. What I do require, is an open mind and the courage to stand in front…
5 Tips to Accelerate Your Language Learning
Contributed and edited by Lacy Edney, Marketing and Social Media Coordinator, ILSC-San Francisco I’ve been on the language learning track for a while. It all started with Spanish, which was more of a lackadaisical wandering through vocabulary and tenses that never seemed to sink in. French was a slow trot over some of those hurdles, but somehow…
New English Language Student Books at ILSC!
Contributed by Mara Müller, Communications Coordinator / Copywriter, ILSC Education Group ILSC Language Schools students taking Communication or English for Academic Purposes (formerly Academic Preparation) will now receive their very own ILSC textbooks! ILSC collaborated with Oxford University Press to create a set of textbooks organized according to ILSC language levels. Students in the Beginner…
Top Three Benefits of Learning a New Language
San Franciscans know that their city is hip, eclectic, eccentric, open, delicious, avant-garde, multi-cultural, and maybe a little foggy! But San Francisco is also rich with bilingual and multi-lingual speakers, from Spanish to Chinese, Tagalog to Vietnamese and Punjabi, including significant hubs of Persian, Arabic, Portuguese and French speakers – the majority of whom also speak English.…