Meet the Team
The People (and Creatures) Who Want to Help You Love Your Holiday
(And your English)
Principle English Coach & Holiday Co-ordinator
Your Guide to Scottish Culture
Ruth is a popular E.S.L. English instructor; a creative, flexible thinker. She’s sociable and friendly but loves quiet times, nature, Scottish heritage, art and culture. (And cats.)
Higher Education
Ruth trained as an artist at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, UK (B.A. Hons) and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA (picking up her M.F.A. in Fine Art and a Certificate in Higher Education Teaching).
Art World
She’s also worked with a number of arts organisations, and artist collectives.
Ruth: spontaneous, adventurous and creative
ELT English Teaching
Ruth Pringle spent 3 years in Brussels and 7 years in Paris teaching adult ESL English to university classes and private language schools (L.S.I International and Inlingua).
She was on teaching teams for corporate clients including HAS, Nike France, Arcelor Mittal, INPES, L’Agence de la Biomedicine and Cegelec.
ELT Art Schools
She then specialised as an English instructor for art schools, and taught at: École Brassart, Tours; École de Condé, Paris-Segur; École Speciale d’Architecture, Paris, École Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Reims; Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Mantes la Jolie, Université Paris 13, Paris.
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Conversationalist, Coach & Guide
Kenny is wingman (wing nut), language host and guide.
Your Friendly Pharmacist
Kenneth Graham is a pharmacist with 20 years of professional experience, including 8 years of managerial experience (which entailed being responsible for staff relations, customer service, meeting health and safety regulations, ensuring staff was up to date with current training, budgeting, calculating staff hours and stock management).
Music and Travel
Kenny is affable and friendly and a wonderful host. He is a golfer, a Spanish speaker, and a music lover. (He previously lived in Spain for one year and has a lot of encouragement to give our language learners).
His favourite part of being on the Blue Noun Teaching Team are the evenings when we have guest musicians in to talk music and play (and the evenings when we go out to gigs and events).
Your English Language Holiday Guide!
He’s also great at showing guests around our town and region and loves a good castle!
Read our blog to find out more about how we explore Scotland together.
Kenny: easygoing, kind & helpful
The Hub Community
Share Professional Skills
Our teaching team are all experts in their field and have lots of skills to demonstrate and professional experiences to share on your adult language holiday.
Love Scottish Art and Culture
Whether it’s music, art, or literature, our friends have great knowledge and passion and want to introduce to you the things they love.
Eat and Drink with Us
Our friends are your new friends.
They regularly pop in to share our tasting menu and social events.
(Especially the whisky tasting)!
Studios & Workshops
A few of our friends have artist studios and are happy to show you what they are working on.
Take You on a Tour
Whether it’s a stroll around Crieff learning about its history or foraging for wild herbs, our hub team are keen to help you practice speaking English by sharing the things about Perthshire that they love.
Have a Remarkable Language Holiday Full of Expertise and Friendship.
Blue Noun Language Hub: Adult Language Holidays in Scotland.
Our English language school is a ‘hub’.
Whether you take our English conversation holidays, or work with us online, you’ll benefit from speaking to a range of people.
Each guest coach has unique skills to offer our English language school and has their own professions, businesses & skills to share with you.
Exploring Scottish Culture through Conversation
LOLIE
An Arts Graduate, Radio Host & Radio Station Director, TV producer, Lolie is an expert on all things media.
Jen
Jen began her career as a scientist, and now shares nature with visitors and locals through guided walks, songs, myths and storytelling.
CHARMAIN
Set Designer, Props and Model Maker, Charmain will help with the language of 3D making processes and all things film set.
CLAIRE
Herbalist Claire talks about Health & Wellbeing, nature and plants.
BARRY SCOTT
Barry is a painter and picture framer with a studio in Perthshire. He has an M.FA. in fine art from the University of Maryland, and great teaching experience.
JAN
A riding coach and pony expert, Jan is training up her young highland pony to be a therapy horse. Jan can introduce you to rural Perthshire.
FIONA Mc.
Fiona is a glass graduate from Edinburgh College of Art. She now teaches workshops in collage and drawing.
JUNE
An honoured guest on an English language holiday!
Sculptor and Community Arts Practitioner, June is also a fantastic storyteller about Scottish history, language and culture.
FIONA
Fiona is an Art & Contemporary Practices graduate. She has a passion for socially engaged art and politics.
Fiona has broad ELT experience. She’s lead language coach on our Professional Coaching Holiday.
JENNIE
Jennie is a pronunciation coach. She joins Blue Noun to give workshops improving pronunciation skills.
LHAMO
Lhamo is a musician, song writer and creativity coach. She regularly helps our English learners through journalling and mindset workshops.
OUR L2 Community
We STRONGLY believe that other second-language English users can help you speak English well.
Find out How We Are Changing ELT.
Meet the Language School Cats
In January 2024 the humans were joined by 3 kittens.
Rocky, Rosie and Finn live upstairs from the language hub, but are frequent visitors as they like to meet everyone and know what’s going on.
Most of our language-learning guests find it a bonus having cats around to relax with.
If you are allergic – or it’s just not your thing, let us know when you book.
