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Languages Classes for Mature Adults

Our Lifelong Language Learning Program offers 5-week online language classes for mature adults. Our courses blend language learning with cultural exploration and travel themes, creating an engaging and immersive experience. Each class centers around practical topics—such as ordering food, discussing family, traveling, and shopping—and includes activities like dialogues, vocabulary building, and conversational practice. With a focus on communication and comprehension, grammar is seamlessly integrated into each lesson.

Following the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach, our classes are designed to get students speaking in the target language from day one. Sessions are primarily conducted in the target language, ensuring a fully immersive learning environment. Additionally, every class includes a segment dedicated to cultural insights, which is delivered in English. The learning environment is relaxed and fun.

Tuition is $197 per course (5 weeks). Use coupon code BEGINAT55 to get $25 off your class. 

Winter 2025 class schedule: January 27, 2025 to February, 28, 2025.

We will offer two levels for French, Spanish, and Italian.

French 1 - Tuesdays/Thursdays — 5:30 to 6:30 pm Eastern Time 
French 2 – Monday/Wednesday — 5:30 to 6:30 pm Eastern Time 

Spanish 1 - Tuesdays/Thursdays — 5:30 to 6:30 pm Eastern Time 
Spanish 2 – Monday/Wednesday — 6:15 to 7:15 pm Eastern Time 

Italian I: Tuesdays/Thursdays 5:30 to 6:30 pm Eastern Time
Italian 2: Tuesdays/Thursdays 7 to 8 pm Eastern Time
Italian 3: Contact Edwige if you are interested in a level 3 class.

Contact Edwige Simon at esimon@icls.edu if you have questions or if you would like to order a custom class (5 students minimum). 

Language Classes for Active Adult Communities

ICLS offers language programs to Active Adult Communities. Classes are exclusive to your members. Once you have purchased a class, ICLS handles scheduling, registration, and tech support so you can sit back, relax, and take credit for offering a unique valuable experience to your residents. Multiple pricing models are available. Contact Edwige Simon at esimon@icls.edu to discuss your needs. 

Four reasons to offer language classes to your residents

1. Encourage traveling

Baby boomers spend about $157 billion per year on travel [1]. Offering language courses is a great way to support your residents’ travel aspirations. Knowing a foreign language will allow them to connect more deeply with the people they meet abroad than if they rely on them to speak English.

2. Help your residents reconnect with their heritage

Baby boomers are the bread and butter of the genealogy industry. Many Americans are looking to language to reconnect with their roots meaningfully. Learning the language of their grandparents offers a unique insight into their heritage.

3. Offer an intellectually stimulating activity

Baby boomers are more educated than any generation before them. As they retire, many want to be involved in meaningful activities and continue learning. A language class is a unique and exciting way to offer the kind of learning residents are looking for.

Now that the pandemic has acquainted them with videoconferencing platforms, they are eager to utilize their newly acquired tech skills and take an online class. 

4. Promote cognitive and intellectual health 

Research shows that learning a new language is one of the few activities that truly helps improve working memory. Language learning helps create new connections, improves attention span, and helps prevent cognitive decline. 

Offering online activities ensures that the community can continue to thrive, even during lockdowns or a bad flu season.

Language Classes for Individuals

ICLS offers custom language classes for small groups of mature adults in French, Spanish, and Italian. We need at least five learners to offer a class, so get your friends and family together and contact Edwige Simon at esimon@icls.edu to discuss your needs.