Nab Cottage, Ambleside, Uk

Nab Cottage is a family, a language school and a small international community – all in one. Teachers, facilitators, and language students – a maximum of 20 - live together. The course is very intensive with 35 contact hours a week.

Our aim is firstly to build confidence. We use a holistic model of learning: a harmony of body, mind and spirit. We encourage exploration and creativity. We encourage our students to take risks – essential, we believe, for effective language learning.

This has a positive effect on the group where everyone learns together, helping each other, encouraging individual self awareness and awareness of others, self esteem and confidence.

The course is intensive, fun, energising, relaxing and challenging. Learning takes place all day, every day; not just in lessons. Our students are independent adults, from 18 to 80 years old. They are looking for a new way to learn. They are looking for a place where they can be themselves. Many of our students return from year to year.

The school and the accommodation are together. The school has study rooms, TV/video room, computer with free internet access, party/games room, quiet room and self access area. The accommodation, just metres away, has bedrooms, kitchen, dining rooms and sitting rooms. There are gardens all around with a summer house, orchard and sauna. There is a lake for swimming and canoeing and fields and mountains all around. The local villages, Grasmere and Ambleside, are 2 miles away with cinemas, theatres, pubs and shops. The people in the area are very friendly and interested in our students.