Book chat with Ammie H
Get to know us through the books we read! Get to know us through the books we read! This month we chat to Ammie Henson, one of the coordinators of…
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Reading for all levels of English with Carmen 1
You’ve been transported to Carmen’s book corner! Here you will find some great book recommendations for learners of all levels of English. I’m Carmen, and in my first blog post…
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Book chat with Eppie M
Get to know us through the books we read! Every first Friday of the month we’ll share an interview with a Language Centre staff member on a favourite or memorable…
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Free English classes
We’re offering a week of free, in-person English language classes as part of our Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) programme to anyone whose first language is not English or Afrikaans.
Correct me if I’m wrong
We reckon correctional fluid wouldn’t have been invented if people used language perfectly. Now and again, everyone stumbles linguistically – when talking, writing and, increasingly, when texting. Every so often…
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A linguistic adventure for international students
Students from abroad who wish to improve their English have the opportunity to enrol in the Language Centre’s Intensive English Programme (IEP). The programme encourages students from different levels or…
Read More ‘Is’ or ‘are’ – that is the question…
For English, it’s the dividing line: on one side you have (apparently) well-educated (probably) first-language speakers; on the other, everyone else. Very simply put, subject-verb agreement means that singular subjects…
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