Languart Blog

"Introduce yourself." "Tell us a few words about yourself." "Tell us about your hobby."
Do these sentences ring a bell? How did they make you feel? Because if it was that familiar knot in your stomach, it means that... you're human ;) We all know it, some of us more, some less: you're sitting in a circle, it's nearly your turn, and you already know that you don't know what to say. The same question again and again, and again you have to come up with something special, something interesting, something that won't sound dull, but not too far-fetched either.

When we feel stress and pressure just before we speak, that's when the block appears. And when learning a foreign language, it's even stronger.

"Do you have one-to-one classes?" — that's question number one when someone writes to us. One-to-one seems safer: nobody's watching, nobody's judging, all the teacher's attention is just for me. I get it. But after years of teaching, I can see that a group does something one-to-one simply can't — and I mean both seven-year-olds and adults. Here are three reasons why at Languart we choose small groups.

I spent a long time thinking about a slogan that could capture the atmosphere of our school. At first it was "The art of learning a language" — because of the school's name, a combination of the words language and art. But over the years we've been running, I came to feel that the word "art" rather distances us from everyday life, while language is, after all, something we use every day. I wanted our school to be seen as something closer to people — because art seems to be further away rather than closer.

The word "local" carries huge value – it shows the character of a place, its intimacy, commitment and closeness. Here's why that's how we see our language school in Gdańsk's Przymorze.