A Real World English Holiday Blend
Blue Noun Language Hub gives English training through a blend of the best of both classroom and real-world English environments, including 1:1 language coaching, authentic conversations and memorable and exciting travel experiences, all of which convert uncertain English into powerful English for real-world occasions.
This article is about why you need this mix of classroom and real-world English, and how we (Blue Noun) achieve it.
Who We Help
Like many language learners, our clients want a clear, well-guided path that will help them improve as quickly as comfortably, as painlessly as possible, and get long-term results in English for work purposes, so that they always feel confident and never feel vulnerable, because using English is a daily/frequent source of stress & anxiety.
Why Do You Need Real-World English Skills?
Traditional language classes – and now AI – build language ability but do little to reduce the stress inherent in speaking a foreign language.
If anything, they assume confidence just comes with increased ability, and it does not.
(It comes through a range of experience and practice that builds memory pathways).
The Independent Language Teacher Revolution
Great teachers and coaches are confidence builders whilst making language digestible. It’s why we support and champion independent teachers and coaches. (We see they get results).
By not providing mindset support, large-scale education systems trap the learner in a cycle of never feeling good enough – always being dependent.
And as long as they are passing an increasingly difficult test, their clients are ‘improving’ – who cares how they sleep at night before a presentation?
We care.
A one-week language holiday can catalyse the transition from brain-learned language to confidence.
That’s not to be confused with a holiday abroad.
- L1 (native) spoken English is fast and scary and you rarely get to respond as you wish (or get support to express yourself better if you need it).
- Real-world English makes you vulnerable because real-world conversations are sink or swim.
(Take Our Holiday English Challenge on Any Holiday to Get Talking)
That’s not the same as speaking English for work.
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When you are speaking as a professional, the stakes matter.
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Professional real-world English tends to be binary: success or failure.
‘I should have said…’ anxiety preys on you.
You cope,
(you have to)
but at what cost?
Let’s Talk!
Interested in a Blue Noun Holiday?
You’ll get to see our hub – and tell me (Ruth) 3 things you’d like to see/do in Scotland.
Curating real-world English
The Blue Noun way is not true ‘immersion’ in the sense that you are thrown into the deep end to see if you can swim.
Our language holidays are safe, real-world English practice experiences.
Every guest gets a string of personalised, curated encounters and adventures that feel good for them, full of real (but guided) conversation.
Dedicated Learning Space
We have a comfortable, safe practice space with all the traditional tools to incubate and grow your English (great teachers & coaches & books etc).
Unlike a classroom, it’s a space where you come and go and move as you please – and (critically) where our community also enters.
Only you don’t have to meet their English level – they meet yours.
Educational Tourism
It doesn’t feel like work, but you are learning.
Using your English for crafting, cooking, story sharing, advice-giving, empathising, laughing, and confessing is using your English well.
It’s not just refreshing your brain knowledge, it’s building auto-responses, comprehension skills and additional vocabulary through all the emergent language.
Most importantly, it’s rewriting your secret belief that English is scary, full of traps and pitfalls waiting to snag you. (That at any second you are about to tumble into an error or problem that exposes you as the phoney you are).
We have a network of artist studios we visit for coffee and chats.
The Power of Nature
We go out into nature whenever we feel like it (often) and explore Scotland in healthy, environmentally respectful ways.
We visit the local community in their workspaces and explore the landscapes of Scotland surrounding them.
It’s real-world English, and you can not only follow it with ease but also participate in and enjoy it (don’t mistake ease for easy).
And it all takes place in the ‘Friendliest place on Earth’ according to Booking.com.
(Where else would you want to practice real-world English?).
And one of the most beautiful parts of Scotland (according to me, but you’ll see).
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Chose a Real-World English Holiday
Classroom English is where you stuff your brain with things you can say.
Classrooms are valuable as a safe place for mistakes and a dedicated place to learn language basics. To an extent, you can ignore your body, sacrifice comfort for knowledge and increasingly grow in your head.
Blue Noun Language Hub is a new blend between classroom and real-world English.
Like a language class holiday, we incubate your English to grow quickly.
But it doesn’t just grow in your head.
It comes out to play.
With powerful results for your confidence!
English learning, differently!
How our blend of real-world English unlocks speakers,
one voice at a time.
Testimonials
British Council
The British Council listed our speciality Real-World English in its Top 2024 Language Teaching Innovations.
Friendly community
Perthshire was voted the Friendliest Region on Earth by Booking*com.
What more perfect combination could you need for an English conversation holiday?
5 Star Reviews
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