Culture-Led English Learning

Blue Noun Language Hub is an alternative language school.

Not only is it designed by an artist, but we often partner with our local creative community to deliver authentic English learning experiences.

Do You Need to be Good at Art to Enjoy Our English Language Holidays?

Not at all, but you need an open mind and an interest in all sorts of cultures.

While a small number of our guests are Art and Design Professionals most of our English language holiday takers are not artists but open-minded professionals seeking a more enjoyable way to improve in English.

Our last 2024 client worked for the German Finance Ministry!

Blue Noun’s particular kind of creativity makes English learning fun, manageable, attractive and rewarding.

This blog shows how creative English teachers inject interest into anyone’s English learning.
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An Artist English Teacher Brings Quality Culture into the Classroom

Art and culture open avenues for conversation, exploring and expanding language.
Whatever your profession, we can make this relevant to you and your workplace. 
 

Sample English Class Around Creative Topics?

For example, in one English class this week we looked at a citizen science/creative project called 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗮.
𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗮 is conceptually clever, skilful in production, ‘Instagramable‘ and fabulously eco in spirit.
 
Let’s take a quick look at this art project and the English language objectives behind discussing it. 

 

The Lego Lost At Sea Facebook page was created by British writer and beachcomber Tracey Williams, who first started to discover pieces of sea themed Lego on beaches around her family home in South Devon, England in the late 1990s. She now lives in Cornwall, England where the shipwrecked Lego still washes up daily.”

Lost Lego at Sea Facebook Page

FREE Facebook English Group Lego lost at sea

Target Language

By the end of class, participants had the language skills to:
  • present the 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗮 project (past and present).
  • feel more confident in saying large numbers,
  • discuss this style of messaging, purpose and ‘citizen science,’
  • offer opinions on how it compares to ‘high art,’
  • suggest where it could be exhibited next (making suggestions). 

“In 1997, nearly five million bits of Lego fell into the sea when a huge wave hit the container ship Tokio Express, washing 62 containers overboard.”

 

Lost Lego at Sea Facebook Page

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Artists Have Empathy

This is something you need from any kind of coach. Language learning has ups and downs, and frustrations.

An empathetic coach can navigate you around the hurdles and know when to push you and when it is time to rest.

Relaxing on an Immersion Englihs holiday - 3 girls sitting in a nice public garden. For artist English teacher blog.
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Artists Have Good Stories

Artist studios are brilliant environments for language learning as they are exciting, tactile and visual.

Additionally, they are somewhat strange and odd, filled with unfamiliar tools and objects.

Our holidays offer 1000 micro-moments of you being you, in English.

Placing you in a safe but unfamiliar environment is a wonderful way to bypass language insecurity and get you talking.

Read about our Language Class Mosaic Workshop.

English language class mosaic workshop

Let’s Talk!

Book a video chat to meet the teaching team and ask any questions you have about our holidays.

 

For Artists & Makers:

September is Creative Takeover at Blue Noun.

Join our Mini Artist Residency or our Design Week English Immersion.

September is art month Maker takeover

Further Information

About English Language Education

You may be interested in knowing how an arts education not only helps deliver English classes but also builds an alternative English language school. 

I tell this story in this LinkedIn post: