A Message for Strathearn Businesses & Residents
This page introduces Blue Noun Language Hub, who we are, and who and how we help.
We are looking to develop mutually beneficial local partnerships for 2025.
Ways Strathearn businesses and residents can work with us:
Business Visits
We bring clients to your premises to learn about your business/product.
Behind the Scenes Tours
Farms/businesses we pay you to tour your premises and learn about your product/business model.
Arts & Crafts Workshops
We pay artists to deliver creative workshops for our guests.
Cooking, Baking, Making Workshops
We are interested in connecting with Strathearn businesses/individuals who could deliver workshops for our clients – at your place or ours (we have a professional kitchen).
Perthshire Produce Tasting
Be featured in our Perthshire produce tasting.
Homestay Hosting
Our clients normally lodge within the local community for one or 2 weeks.
FYI: Travel for education purposes is exempt from the recent law change.
You do not need to be registered with the Short-Term Let Act to host our language holiday clients.
Venu Hire
We have a beautiful and unique venue for your event, available to hire from November to April.
Learn more:
Who to Contact
Blue Noun is coordinated by Ruth Pringle, an ESL (English as a Second Language) coach for international adults.
Ruth has a background in art and art history. She helps differently from other language schools or teachers, tending to attract people with class-learned English skills, seeking conversation practice and authentic language experiences.
The best way to reach us is through the WhatsApp button on this page, by email (ruth@bluenoun.co.uk) or on any of the social media platforms below.
An Alternative Language School
Located in Crieff, Perthshire, Blue Noun Language Hub welcomes English learners from around the world for bespoke, culture-led English immersion holidays.
As an artist-run, non-traditional language school, we offer mini-classes with a maximum of 3 learners per week. Our flexible course content is tailored to meet each learner’s professional English needs and personal interests and passions.
We are against the traditional classroom approach—especially when it’s called a holiday.
Instead, we provide a relaxed and comfortable learning environment, where English is taught through a unique blend of personal coaching and social experiences.
Our excursions explore the beauty of Perthshire and feature “Meet the Makers” experiences. These include visits to local artists’ studios and any kind of production unit.
We celebrate and promote the fact that Perth is the first city in the UK to become a UNESCO City of Crafts and Folk Art and share varied local food and drink producers and even micro-enterprises with strong or unusual social agendas.
We especially love showcasing workshops where traditional craft skills meet modern technology, and where the work of artists, craftspeople, and makers reflects the landscape and ecology of Perthshire.
This approach gives our English learners excellent opportunities to practice professional, presentational English while gaining a “behind the scenes” perspective on the region.
We don’t tell people what Scotland is.
Instead, we curate a menu of experiences that allows our clients to discover their own version of Scotland—and with it, their own identity as English language speakers.
Further Information
Language Homestay Hosts
Interested in becoming a language holiday homestay host? We’d love to hear from you!
Learn more about what is expected.
Guest Artist Workshops
Read about an example of an artist workshop:
